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Automated backups, monitoring, a person "on call) to manage your instance and handle any issues? The Fosstodon admins run the moderation side, but masto.host (
by michaelanckaert 4y ago
Automated backups, monitoring, a person "on call) to manage your instance and handle any issues?
The Fosstodon admins run the moderation side, but masto.host (their service provider) is paid to keep the lights on.
- datalopers 4y agoNo, I'm sorry, these are not reasonable costs. Is there a reason why the mastodon community has utterly no clue what sort of performance/cost should support an utterly basic social media platform?
- Un1corn 4y agoYou are always welcome to use the opportunity and start a competing service in a fraction of the cost. Mastodon is indeed inefficient but you also pay a lot for peace of mind.
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- Kye 4y agoMore to the point: the masto.host guy has been there working on making starting an instance accessible from early on. People don't seem to mind paying a little premium to support someone who's done a lot of work to jumpstart the fediverse. Starting a competing service might be easy from a technical aspect, but reputation counts for a lot here.
- cdmckay 4y agoInstead of condescending to them, why not try to help the project be more efficient with resources? It is an open source project after all.
- rendleflag 4y agoIt's easy to say "buy a box and connect it to the internet", but that's consumer grade equipment. If my computer goes down, it only affects me. When an instance goes down, it can affect thousands of people. I'm not saying they couldn't find a less expensive solution with AWS or Azure, but they need a solution now. They don't have the time to learn a new solution, design the system, and then implement a new backend while people are swarming to their instance. Migrating to another solution (even the above "box") means significant downtime for 50,000 people.