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?

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Either that or maybe a separate wifi network so it can have the network to itself.

    You can always start with it where it is and start small - get comfortable with hosting and how the server will behave. You don’t need to solve all the problems at once.