if you self-host a PDS: how much sysadmin work are you putting into it each month? never had any issues with corrupted repos or downtime that I needed to fix (I just stick with the docker image and it auto-updates) just don't want people imaging something way more involved than it really is

Very little. Once per month: run apt updates. ~15 minutes make a backup. ~10 minutes Occasionally my uptimerobot monitors will fail because the container auto-updates its version. ~15 minutes

Nothing beyond popping in to do general server updates. Just make sure you have backups to restore to.

Literally zero. If you don't count opening the laptop on which I left that backup script and poking it once

Zero maintenance, but I also don't really use it apart from just leaving it up to host my test account.

any plans on migrating your main?

This is on BluePDS. I need to add some recovery functionality (like supporting additional rotation keys) just so I don't run the risk of being locked out. I also need to harden it security-wise to ensure that my account can't be hijacked.

I think there was other stuff too, like I wanted to push through a large refactor so it can leverage Azure block storage directly (instead of using a mounted filesystem). Lots of work, but not enough time :)

Very cool, yeah, I use the block storage option now on mine and I like it a lot