If I wasn't so lazy (and cared more) I should probably just setup my own instance. But none of the above prerequisites have been met.
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z If you do go a bit further with setting up an instance, I'm happy to have my brains picked.
(I feel confident in saying that now that zombie season has ended)
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z nitech.online is running on a DigitalOcean droplet. Over the last 14 days (when traffic picked up again) it has been using:
- <6% of 1 vCPU
- ~75% of 2GB RAM
- ~10GB of disk space
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z There's been about 10 people active in the last week, 5 people active today.
It definitely needs the 2GB of RAM, IMO. I was trying to do upgrades earlier in the year and the Docker builds were failing with RAM issues on 1GB. That's generally how I've been handling installation, and upgrades (via Docker images).
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z There are dedicated Mastodon hosting providers that might be a better compromise between home server and running a VPS like I'm doing. I tried them out about 4 years ago, but the cost ramped up very quickly for more than a couple of users, but I think it's probably more cost-effective now.
@mo @d3z Thanks for the info! I suppose I think a hosting provider is cheating - it may be the way to do it properly, but I think I'd get a better handle on it all if I put an instance together myself first. (Like email - I've run an IMAP+SMTP server in the past and learned a lot, but I don't want to do that again!)
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z I've done the same with IMAP+SMTP. It really helps to gain an understanding, but it really doesn't do much in the long term.
I kinda cheated cause I'm using the Docker containers. I can't be bothered installing and maintaining all the software from source though.
@mo @d3z Oh I fully intend to cheat with containers too! I do like the way I don't have to worry about build environments and dependencies with them, and that they make (some) network+filesystem requirements explicit. k3s on a Pi has been surprisingly good too, when Docker on Pi started annoying me.
@OpinionatedGeek @mo I'm contemplating a single-user (i.e. me) homegrown (i.e. hacked together) instance. You'll get another follow if it works.
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to do 🙂
I think peers will try to communicate with your server for 7 days and then give up. You could could try following people on a few servers for a while and if you're happy with how it's going then do a proper migration from your current account if you're sure you will keep the new server.
@OpinionatedGeek @d3z This is effectively what I did too. I set something up on masto.host first and found that it really didn't suit me. Then I created this one. Used the same domain as well. I don't think it did much damage.
@mo @d3z Thanks but it's the whole 'active moderation' thing that's part of the problem:
1. I'm very lazy, and
2. I don't want the whole power/responsibility thing, and
3. As I said, I'm remarkably lazy.