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The past few days, I've been toying with the idea of setting up a single-user Mastodon instance.

I'm currently looking at Masto.host as a hosting provider. The prices seem reasonable?

First, for those who have rolled their own instance: How has the experience been? Any advice you'd share with a self-hosting newbie? Any pitfalls or downsides?

Have you gone with a specialist managed prover like Masto.host?

Are there any major advantages or disadvantages over a vanilla cPanel web hosting provider that supports Mastodon?

Another option I'm toying with is using a single instance of Friendica as my Fedi home, and consolidating everything there, including photos.

Are there any managed hosting providers that support Friendica?