lessons from xx years of self-hosting:

• build a community, not userbase
  
• bots cannot predict human folly
  
• you don’t need 42u of metal to serve a website
  
• communities grow best slow and organically
  
• quality > quantity
  
• automate as much as possible
  
• have your system(s) tell you what’s up || down
  
• add service(s) slowly, understand attack surface(s)
  
• sandbox || isolate pids and services when you can
  
• when stress > fun, revisit self-hosting