So I've been reviewing our server plan here at QOTO to figure ut an upgrade plan...

The mastodon instance itself runs on a 32 gig memory system that is maxed out and thats costing me about 120/month. The bulk of that cost is the result of our very high federation count (we are the top 20 most federated english servers). We have to process so many external statuses it costs a lot of resources. the advantage means when someone posts your posts federates to the maximum number of public feeds possible, so our users have one of the largest voices in the fediverse. It also means we have a huge database of text searchable toots going back years.

If we want to maintain that level of federation the next step is to double our server costs up to 240$ /month. Thats just for the main mastodon server. Our NextCloud, PeerTube, Gitlab, Funkwhale, and other auxiliary services add somewhere to the tune of 500$ / month on top of that.

I guess this is the price of fame :)

#mastoadmin #mastodon #fediverse #QOTO

@freemo that is an astronomical cost. and I wouldn't expect you to cover out of pocket.

Reduce something, connections, keep performance better at same or lower costs.

Heck, test drive Pleroma and if we can convert the database it would be a great option.

@freemo https://i2p.rocks/blog/the-magical-world-of-pleroma-setting-up-your-instance.html

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

https://fediverse.network/pleroma?count=statuses

"Pleroma is built on a lot less technology than Mastodon. To run a Mastodon instance, you need Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, NodeJS and - if you want search - ElasticSearch. For Pleroma, you only need Elixir and PostgreSQL, while still getting all the features. This simplifies installation and makes maintenance somewhat easier."

"To report trouble, contact href+pleroma.site AT random.sh. Please allow 24 hours for turnaround. Hardware Information. This instance is currently hosted on a Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz with 64Gb of RAM, 386Gb SSD zfs mirror. The OS is FreeBSD and the instance lives in its own jail." ---nice server. ;)