You can set it up on low end servers like from lowendbox.com... You can get a year worth of 2/3/4 GB ram servers for quite cheaper than heroku or linode. I ha

You can set it up on low end servers like from lowendbox.com... You can get a year worth of 2/3/4 GB ram servers for quite cheaper than heroku or linode. I have a bunch of servers running and they are not bad. Like the other commenter said, pleroma is a good lighter alternative and it can be run on raspberry pi if you want