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Isn't hosting a Fediverse instance already cripplingly expensive? Even YouTube was bleeding money when it was acquired.
by kmfrk 2y ago
Isn't hosting a Fediverse instance already cripplingly expensive?
Even YouTube was bleeding money when it was acquired.
- kstrauser 2y agoMine runs mostly on a $20 DigitalOcean instance. I only have ~5K users so it’s not a giant service, but it shows you can run a small server cheaply.
- solarpunk 2y agoyou have 5000 users on a mastodon instance? i used to run an instance and i am skeptical of your numbers.
- kstrauser 2y agoYup. It’s been online for 7 years.
- solarpunk 2y agoi am assuming the majority of those users are not active then? are you using external storage for user media elsewhere? do you federate with the broader ecosystem? these numbers are otherwise nonsensical, a 20 dollar do droplet has like 100gb of storage space, and 3Tb of transfer, that'd be chewed up in less than a week by those users.
- kstrauser 2y agoOf course they're not all active. As a past admin, you know that active users are probably closer to 10% of the total. Oops, you were right about media storage. I use DigitalOcean's Spaces, and that's about another $20 per month for ~1.5TB of images and stuff.
- wkat4242 2y agoMaybe take a look at scaleway, they have Unlimited bandwidth plans.
- lawik 2y agoA Mastodon instance is kind of heavyweight. The caching/media seems painful. I seem to recall it is a Rails app which is not the most efficient. Akkoma was a forward and more resource-efficient variant built in Elixir. Last I checked. There are a gajillion *key forks. Think Misskey was the starting point. Honk seems fun and is in Go. Fediverse is not one software package. Mastodon is. Many are Mastodon-compatible.