Comment on Cost of running a mastodon instance
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoIn all seriousness, we can’t really give a cost estimate because you haven’t given us your hosting scenario. Are you hosting on your own hardware, on a VPS, or using a provider that specializes in hosting Mastodon servers?
sartaj@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I am thinking of a VPS so that i can have greater control over instance functionality
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
https://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-server#choose-how-youd-like-to-host
Digital Ocean is used as an example because they have a quick setup Mastodon option. It looks like $14/mo minimum if you’re going to run Elastisearch. Without that tool in memory you might get away with 1GB of memory which is $7/mo. But the author also notes that with Elastisearch his VPS uses about 2GB of ram so he’s actually running the 4GB $21/mo plan.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 weeks ago
Even without images, you’ll still be quite a bit of space. I’m not sure 50GB would cut it for 1000 semi-active users. Also you’ll need to pay for the domain name.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
@sartaj@lemmy.world important information above.
sartaj@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks!!
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
He also explains how to offload storage to another service for $5 a month if you want to add images back in.