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J. Lewis
@lewx.dev

joined bluesky last month and tried self-hosting a single-user pds… I'd HIGHLY discourage anyone from doing the same at least when using one apex domain for pds, handle, and website (it was more of a headache than I think it was worth) maybe it's an unreasonable ask but that's my ocd for you

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Mike Beasley
@mikebeas.com

Personally I’d put the PDS on a subdomain at most, or a separate domain entirely, from my website. Hosting a website and PDS on the same domain doesn’t seem like it would work.

J. Lewis
@lewx.dev

it could've worked, but with much effort no doubt in hindsight it would've made more sense to use a subdomain… I just don't think the effort of self-hosting was worth it for me (don't get me started on email verification) the painless approach is fine for now, maybe I can try again in the future

Mike Beasley
@mikebeas.com

yeah i’m personally interested in self-hosting because i’m a dev and i like that stuff, but right now i’m fine to wait until the tooling is better and keep on the happy path. no rush for me to migrate.

J. Lewis
@lewx.dev

really I was only interested in exploring self-hosting since I have an idea for an atproto project that might require it, but that's a story for another day