• Cosmonaut_Collin
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    41 year ago

    Would it make sense to create my own instance just to host my account and avoid all maintenance and down times of instances?

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      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.

      • @BarrelAgedBoredom
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        31 year ago

        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?

        • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙
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          1 year ago

          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

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          probably it’s just not worth it attacking smaller instances? lemmy.world is such a juicy target given how big it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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