smoking korone on Nostr: Question for anyone who has an instance of their own or has had experience making ...

Question for anyone who has an instance of their own or has had experience making one: What would you say is the "hardest part"?

I was thinking making sure emails are sent and don't just go straight into spam is probably one of them. Also, do I need an S3 bucket to handle media etc or is there a way I can host it all locally?

I'm thinking of hosting my own instance at some point in the future and I wondered how I go about setting an environment up. (I feel like I should say this if it's not already obvious- I would be doing it entirely from scratch with no previous work in messing with any self hosted instance of anything at all) - do I have a system running Proxmox or something similar and then have the instance in that?

It's all quite new to me admittedly, and aiming to do some of this myself is probably something I hope to work towards...