I am wanting to self host a fediverse instance. I don’t hope to make it big. Hoping for 200 users at most, and I won’t advertise it heavily so it’ll probably be a while before it gets there.

Is it a bad idea to host something like this on local hardware at home? I have a lot of local-only self hosted services, and I wouldn’t want those to be compromised.

But my biggest fear is overloading my network. I already don’t get the fastest signal in some parts of my house, and I am worried the extra traffic might put more pressure on the network.

What are your thoughts on hosting local? Should I just avoid the headache and host on public instance?

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work
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    11 months ago

    I run my own Pixelfed and Lemmy instances on not so young consumer grade hardware and it’s fine, but I am the only user. I would not want to have to deal with other users’ complaints, bad behavior, or other BS.