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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] hllywluis@kleptonix.com 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Running my own instance using AWS's free tier for now, though I think I'll keep it after. It makes scaling soo easy and simple if my instance ever takes off. Which I don't know if it ever will lol. The reason why I even created one is to actually use my domain name for something rather than keep paying for a domain that I'll never use for anything.

[–] therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which of the free AWS ones did you choose. I just had a look and there are lots of different ones which is best for lemmy?

[–] hllywluis@kleptonix.com 3 points 1 year ago

I’m using a t2.micro instance which I think is best for a small instance like mine, but I think there are other options you can look into with different RAM and CPU.