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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by freehunter on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:56PM (#14597422)
Huh. TIL. I didn't think I was that modern having gotten Internet access in the mid 90s, but I wasn't at a university, and by the time I got to university everyone was on a NAT and was behind firewalls.
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by __jal on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:24PM (#14597658)
What the GP describes is still more that possible. I happen to have some physical hosts in a data center, but you can have the same effect with a Linode VM.

It is massively convenient to run your own server. But you need to know how to maintain it (or be willing to learn). It isn't that hard, depending on what you're doing, but there's some effort and learning if you don't do this for a living.

Well worth it, at least for me.

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