Post AvznTJrsKshXQuhbma by person@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #Avzi4ZDtbp3e2uNd5c by stux@mstdn.social
2025-07-10T15:23:35Z
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Lovely people.. ❤️ There is nothing I would love to do more then self-host every instance I host from home with nice beefy servers..The issue is.. Beefy servers costs a LOT of money. The new dedicated server we now got has over 10K EUR in SSD drives aloneThere is no way I can affort that so "take control and host yourself" is not gonna work with a relative large server like mstdnA simple laptop is not gonna cut it anymore
(DIR) Post #AvzivrzeYIRDbo8QEq by TagHunt@infosec.exchange
2025-07-10T15:33:14Z
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@stux What kind of hardware do you consider "beefy server"?I got myself an old server (pizza box style) for cheap (~60 duckerous).Though it isn't what I call beefy, but it's kitted out niceley.
(DIR) Post #AvznTJrsKshXQuhbma by person@fosstodon.org
2025-07-10T16:24:05Z
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@stux Mstdn is a big server, why would anyone expect you to host it at home yourself? Mastodon also isn't the most lightweight microblogging server to boot (at least it wasn't the last time I checked it).
(DIR) Post #Avzp6hwqq7iFMfNLFo by kaito02@mastodon.social
2025-07-10T16:04:26Z
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@TagHunt @stux keep in mind that mstdn hosts 25k active users. This isn't something that cheap hardware can handle.
(DIR) Post #Avzp6jG1yIeHQRMAmu by TagHunt@infosec.exchange
2025-07-10T16:38:51Z
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@kaito02 @stux I just checked and it looks like mstdn.social hosts ~263.2k users total with ~13k monthly users.With the current specs (from the about page) it mostly depends on which specific CPU I got in mine and which DDR version stux/hetzner is using.I agree that that I got isn't up to snuff and I have no clue how much CPU it takes. But I'm kinda curious how it would hold up.My point is, 2nd hand servers can go crazy cheap.
(DIR) Post #Avzp6kM5tF5opXCWsS by stux@mstdn.social
2025-07-10T16:42:26Z
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@TagHunt @kaito02 We need at least a few dozen CPU but also import is the storage, the database is quite large and needs to be stored on fast drives. With the previous migration I ran into read/write issues
(DIR) Post #AvzpL08rzZlvqVoRzk by TagHunt@infosec.exchange
2025-07-10T16:44:58Z
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@stux @kaito02 Decent HDD fast or nvme fast?Could RAIDed HDD be fast enough?
(DIR) Post #AvzpMUHvOZgDdEkysi by stux@mstdn.social
2025-07-10T16:45:17Z
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@TagHunt @kaito02 name 😉
(DIR) Post #AvzpeqJiEPI1AKLTf6 by TagHunt@infosec.exchange
2025-07-10T16:48:34Z
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@stux @kaito02 Damn...Got me beat thereAlthough there are SAS to nvme adapters out there...
(DIR) Post #Aw0lhxGgdciuw07Pjk by gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno
2025-07-10T18:42:42Z
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@stux just set up a cluster of laptops.Redundancy of everything is assured./s