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If you have the resources, host your own to help and spread the load across public instances.
They said:
and I imagine that most people that host something like this do so using a VPS. Homelabs tend to be the minority use case.
Plus, some ISPs might frown upon the increase in traffic when hosting a public service.
I hate my ISP.
Most residential ISPs would frown upon a large amount of upload traffic for a public service, and request that you switch to a business plan with a much lower contention ratio. Contention ratio is essentially the number of people the bandwidth is shared with. For example, if you have a 1Gbps connection with a contention ratio of 50:1 (common for residential ISPs), 50 people share the same 1Gbps bandwidth. That's designed with the idea that not every user is using all their bandwidth at the exact same time. Constant uploads all day (like with a public proxy) breaks that assumption. Business plans usually have a contention ratio of 10:1 to 20:1.
The CEO of my ISP (Sonic) explicitly mentioned that they don't like people hosting servers on their forum:
They don't block it though, and they're fine with low-bandwidth things like Home Assistant, VPNs, etc.