The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.
Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.
What’s your experience been like?
Edit: all right y’all, thanks for the feedback. I’m going to spin up an instance.
I’ve been running my own, it’s mostly automated now. I started a yacy instance as well so not only am I aggregating bigger websites, I’m including the sites I crawled myself and the other sites available on yacy through it’s huge p2p search functionality. In this little way, I’m trying to make sure my search isn’t totally dominated by corporate search.
Tbh, yacy is 1000x harder to keep running than searxng.