I recently upgraded to the Feedly paid subscription – the killer feature for me was IFTTT integration. All of the other services I use, I have wired up to IFTTT to feed favourites / saved / watch-later style content into pinboard.in. RSS was the remaining service.
I always like the idea of hosting my own services (think the last one I ran – blog aside – was thinkup – RIP), but I find it’s never as smooth as I hope it to be. Keep us updated with how you get on with ttrss.