Lars Wirzenius@liw@toot.liw.fi
Self-hosting means taking on system administration duties. For some software that's remarkably easy. Most software makes it painful.
The duties include things like vetting software for suitability, installing it, making sure it runs, making the hosted system safe and secure for its users and the rest of the Internet, applying security fixes, upgrading to new versions, making sure backups exist and can be restored, helping users, dealing with spammers, dealing with hostile scrapers, ...
Lars Wirzenius@liw@toot.liw.fi
All of this is fine, if you're willing to accept the responsibility. It's usually not even difficult, as such, if you're into tinkering with computers and software anyway. But it's almost always tedious and annoying.
Not something anyone should pressure someone else to do, unless that someone will be fairly compensated for their time and effort.
