The main reason for installing a personal instance in my case is that I can do all the work needed for new page creation or maintenance -- anywhere, while not needing a live internet connection. (it will hurt on image hosting uploads, for new pages, but other than that, it works fine offline.)
The speed of edits and reloads is delightful -- no lag at all, since it's a local process.
And this does not require much power, space, ram or anything much. I installed it on Windows and there's dismal documentation for it.
Requirements include a MySQL install, which is free but not a user friendly software to install and manage.
But I haven't touched it in 7 months, since first installing it.
Any basic computer, laptop or desktop could do. It could also be located in another system in your home network, and accessible by internal IP address. Mine is local, running at https://127.0.0.1:8080/
You are welcome for the ref -- absolutely great novels, recommended.
snapshot of the minimized Write.freely service -- I normally don't even look at it. ----v
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