I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
@InspectorCaracal Don't forget backups!
@foozmeat NEVER FORGET BACKUPS
I totally keep forgetting to make copies of my backups 😓 *goes to do that*
@foozmeat I... don't need that, my offsite backups are here at my house, but thank you. >.>
@InspectorCaracal sorry, i just get so excited about backups 🙃
@foozmeat *laughs* That's okay! It's a good thing to be enthusiastic about.
@InspectorCaracal I definitely recommend rsync.net for offiste backups. It's not terribly expensive, they're using ZFS for storage, and you can literally rsync your data to them. Plus free snapshots.