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?
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.
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…
R2 is $0.015/GB, B2 is $0.005/GB and it also has free egress when put behind cloudflare.
That’s part of my concern behind going with local setup. I have a lot of unused HDD storage.