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Would it make sense to create my own instance just to host my account and avoid all maintenance and down times of instances?
I meaaaan. I’m sure the maintenance isn’t being done just for the fun of it. Presumably if you ran your own instance it would just be you doing the maintenance instead of somebody else.
Not to mention, Lemmy.world admins have said it's mostly been due to ddos attacks. What's to stop the people ddosing them to turn their sights on smaller instances?
What's to stop the people ddosing them to turn their sights on smaller instances?
I don't think they are doing it out of some deep-seated hate for Lenny.
I imagine they are script kiddies looking for attention and bringing down your instance with one or two users probably isn't on their radar or worth their time. I seriously doubt little "single-user" or even slightly larger instances will ever be targeted
probably it's just not worth it attacking smaller instances? lemmy.world is such a juicy target given how big it is.
But I could also give myself a cool address.
I mean no arguments here, that’s what I did ;)
Looking to grow my instance eventually, but for now I’m just getting the hang of everything and making sure I can keep a server stable without issues.
Happy to report it’s been pretty easy peasy and up and running for the last 10 days or so. I ran updates on it once which went through without trouble, so I’m not sure what kind of maintenance the folks at Lemmy.world are having to do. I’d guess besides the DDOS attacks, probably maintenance related to their databases and server resources since they serve so many.
I’d let you on mine if you’re interested, but I can’t make big promises and you’d pretty much be helping me beta test. Again though so far so good, I’m getting a reasonably good mix on my feed.
I had the same thought, just so I could be a community of one and host just enough to create an account and port it over via federation