Comment on Cost of running a mastodon instance

• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @sartaj@lemmy.world important information above.

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  • sartaj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks!!

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He also explains how to offload storage to another service for $5 a month if you want to add images back in.

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