I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.
Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?
I started at home and then moved into a vps for my lemmy instance. I decided I don’t want all that public traffic hitting my home ip.
Which VPS do you recommend?
I’m using Racknerd. They came highly recommended and I’ve been happy so far.
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