Finally got around to updating #mastodon to the latest version after....far too long! Bad me.
I'm also thinking of migrating it from my #cloud#VPS provider to a Dell OptiPlex 7040 in my office which has a more reliable internet connection than our #rv!
It's not the beefiest server, but is more powerful than my little 2 vCPU 8GB #hetzner box. Could do with some more memory though - will bump the 7040 from 8GB to 32GB before I migrate.
@matt out of curiosity, how many users do you have on that box? Also what sort of network bandwidth does it need? I am idly wondering about spinning up an instance at home.
@steely_glint it’s pretty much a single user box. I’m the only active user on it. All in, it’s using about 2GB of memory right now. CPU spikes when sidekiq has something to do.
The main cause of bandwidth is really ingesting media and, in my current setup, uploading it to #backblaze b2. For a regular home internet connection it’s probably not a big deal. For our 3-4Mbps cellular in the RV, I don’t want any extraneous loads on it!
@matt thanks. Good to know. I am thinking of trying to host a few users on a 6 or 8 core arm sbc, but I really shouldn’t - I have too many side projects already.
@steely_glint oh, no issue whatsoever. As with anything like this, there's a fixed overhead to just running the various services, so at least on small servers, your load doesn't scale proportionally to the number of users.
I should also add that I'm sure you could get away with far fewer resources than I'm using. I've deliberately tuned it to make it maximally performant and learn about how it #scales - e.g. multiple #sidekiq processes, multiple #mastodon processes, more memory for postgres etc
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