Comment on What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance?

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Very smart to pause and weigh things. There was a lot more to it than I thought when I started mine.

My suggestion is to start a personal instance first. Get the feel for it, see how you like it. Maybe create one community on there that you’re passionate about and advertise that it’s there to the fediverse (since they won’t know about it until you tell them about it). Then judge your risk level and see how much you’re willing to do. For me, I host a bunch of swifties, it’s well within my risk tolerance. I approve everyone that comes in, and most have to ask to join.

None of this is meant to scare you off, obviously I still host and I’m glad for it. My Swiftie Community has over 1,000 subscribers now! I’m very happy to host our little niche community, but I also have learned a lot on the way.

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