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I use Lemmy Community Seeder. Every four hours it checks the top posts on instances you specifies and automatically subscribes you to communities that appear there but you aren’t already subscribed to. You can tweak it to ignore specific communities or instances.
I can see wanting to run your own DNS to serve personal clients for privacy purposes but for self-hosting class stuff I can think of plenty of downsides and zero upsides to privatizing this.
Definitely a “yeah, you could” vs. “yeah, you should” situation.
My personal instance that is pulling in close to the top 500 communities. Over the past week I see about 4 million requests and 17GB data served.
Not shocking. It’s not a huge market and there’s a lot more competition than there was even just a couple of years ago. Cost of entry has plummeted.
If you’re concerned that you VPS provider is replacing your certificates you need to find another provider.
You should also look in to certificate transparency monitoring. I get notified anytime a certificate gets issued for one of my domains.
If you’re not going server grade I’d just throw up a 4-bay docking station like this and do ZFS or LVM. Perfectly fine for single-user or family type stuff.
TrinityTek.win is available. $3.16/yr through Cloudflare. Probably a buck or so more through others.
True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.