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Does anyone have an idea about the infrastructure requirements and the cost of running an instance with the size of mastodon.technology?

• INTPenis 4y ago
  I run an instance of some ~450 users, ~50 active, on a managed k8s cluster and it's costing me ~200usd/month. So I'm actually moving to my own DC where I get more than twice the resources for less than half the price. If you have DC and power sponsored you can get real far.
  • xani_ 4y ago
    That's ridiculously expensive for that tiny amount of users
    • dbmnt 4y ago
      You could easily host 50 active users on a single VPS for a 10th of that cost. masto.host has a plan that covers 100 active users for $19/mo.
• dbmnt 4y ago
  The pricing on masto.host should give you some idea of the requirements and cost: https://masto.host/pricing/ https://masto.host/pricing/ I think they're the largest managed hosting provider in this space. Obviously they are charging a premium compared to deploying it all yourself, but I think the prices are fair, and the plans give you a pretty good idea of the resources required. No offense to the other admin, but $200/mo for 50 active users is way too high. A Kubernetes cluster for 50 users is obvious overkill IMO. Maybe you did it that way for the learning aspect, which is fine. You should be able to host 50 active users for a 10th of that cost though. You can easily do it on a single VPS.