Does anyone have a very detailed and comprehensive guide on how to scale up a Mastodon server?
I'm pretty noobish to Linux but I can follow guides if they have commands and stuff. Though, the only guides I could find were very light on the commands for certain steps.
My Sidekiq has been getting backed up every now and then with thousands of jobs. Of course they eventually clear out but I'd like to just mitigate it by adding more processes or whatever because I'm not even using 50% of my server resources🤷♂️
Any help would be much appreciated.
PS. My server is currently backed up so if you reply to this, I probably won't see it for a bit.😬
@esk@BeAware yup, this ended up accidentally becoming the most comprehensive guide to scaling mastodon on the internet at the time. I'm not sure if it still is, but I wouldn't be surprised
I really don't want to talk people down, but simply setting up Mastodon is not enough, because you should also think about user security. There is a lot of user data that does not belong in other people's hands!
What kind of resources does your server have, how many users do you have, how many followers, how many are followed?
I can tell you how to run an instance with thousands of users, using loadbalancers and spread out sidekiq processes, but that might be bad advise if you just need a bit more uhmpf in the right place.
@koen My account is the only one of note that has basically any activity at all, so you can see my followers and following on my profile. My server is using the specs provided in the screenshot below.
I don't plan on slowing down anytime soon in terms of followers...I usually get 75-100 new followers per month so far.🤷♂️
If I could get help simply making use of the resources I currently have, even if it's overkill, so it would sort of "future proof" this kinda thing, that'd be great.
@koen I did what you said with the PGtune link and after I restarted my postgres, I can no longer access my instance...😭 😬 I feel defeated. I dont know what the original values were and how to get it back. =
@BeAwaretv no need to be fatalistic about it. You have probably made a typo in the postgres config file or something else very small. Your data is not gone, you just need to get your database server started again.
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