--- title: How to self-host Mastodon | daily.dev description: Step-by-step guide to deploying a self-hosted Mastodon instance using Fly.io for hosting, Neon for PostgreSQL, Upstash for Redis, and Postmark for email.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-self-host-mastodon-thua7jp6r twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to self-host Mastodon | daily.dev og:description: Step-by-step guide to deploying a self-hosted Mastodon instance using Fly.io for hosting, Neon for PostgreSQL, Upstash for Redis, and Postmark for email.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-self-host-mastodon-thua7jp6r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ThUA7jp6r.png og:image:alt: How to self-host Mastodon og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to self-host Mastodon **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Step-by-step guide to deploying a self-hosted Mastodon instance using Fly.io for hosting, Neon for PostgreSQL, Upstash for Redis, and Postmark for email. Covers cloning a starter repo, generating app secrets, configuring environment variables, provisioning databases, setting up email, optionally adding AWS S3 for file uploads, and assigning an IP address before final deployment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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