I'm confused about how one hosts a Buddycloud (federated social networking software) channel. I downloaded the source code, but I'm not sure how to install it on my website. Most of the information seems to assume that the host is running their own server, but I have plain ol' paid web hosting. I know that you also need to set up an XMPP server to run Buddycloud, and I'm not sure how to do that on my hosted websiteor if it's even possible. If it matters, my site is hosted on a Linux server through IX Web Hosting.I'd greatly appreciate it if you guys could point me in the right direction.
How can I get started installing Buddycloud software to a hosted site?
open source;social networking
https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Install will help get you started. To be clear you need to install the following components: XMPP server (this handles the federation layer), the buddycloud server (connects to the XMPP server and handles synchronisation with other nodes, permissions of followers) and the web frontend.