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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.

Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.

What's your experience been like?

Edit: all right y'all, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to spin up an instance.

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[-] cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 6 months ago

I host it as a docker container and the maintenance has been painless

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

Same here. Once in a while I update the config with all the changed engines. But that’s about it.

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 6 months ago

+1 to that. I started hosting it recently and haven’t even had to do anything about maintenance

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