@melissabeartrix Heya! Hugo (who runs Masto.host) is lovely. I’m no longer with it because my account is a little different from the norm due to the number of followers/people I’m following/my high rate of engagement so I had to go for a more powerful account with toot.io (Jan, who runs it, is also lovely) but either should be perfectly fine for both.
(When you run your own instance you can suspend folks so their posts are not hosted/distributed from your server.)