I bought a VPS from CloudAtCost for a one-time fee of $35. Set it up with nginx and GNU Social and pretty much haven't looked back since. My instance is https://kwat.chat.
Ideally, the end solution would be dead simple. Download the Windows app, run it, put your credit card in if you need a URL registered, and it does everything, including daily backups to a folder on your disk.
Ideally, the end solution would be dead simple. Download the Windows app, run it, put your credit card in if you need a URL registered, and it does everything, including daily backups to a folder on your disk.