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?

  • glowie@h4x0r.hostEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    You may want to also look at offloading media with pict-rs to a object storage like an S3 API compliant bucket. Otherwise, you’ll find Lemmy soaks up lots of storage.

    • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.ioEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Cloudflare R2 is the cheapest here, it’s free for some gigabytes and egress is free too.

      To be honest, I’d just disable image uploads…

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        R2 is $0.015/GB, B2 is $0.005/GB and it also has free egress when put behind cloudflare.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      That’s part of my concern behind going with local setup. I have a lot of unused HDD storage.