John Conway
Mastohost @mastohost is taking on new accounts again. You can get your own Mastodon server for $6 a month! The great thing about it is they take care of the software, you do not need to be technical to run a server.
Mastohost is where sauropods.win is hosted, and I can recommend them. Support is top-notch, and it's all been smooth sailing.
Masto.host
@alpha1beta Each domain needs it's own installation.
Michael
@john @mastohost probably silly question, but if you wanted to host two domains, can that be done on one plan or would it need to be two?
Masto.host
@husbandpanda It depends on multiple factors. I have people on the $6/month plan with having several dozens of active users. I have people on the Galaxy plan with a single user.
If you follow or are followed by thousands and thousands of remote user then the $6/month plan will not work. If you have a group of friends that almost don't follow or are followed by anyone remote, you can probably have a couple dozen without a problem. Again, it depends on the users you are hosting.
husbandpanda
@john @mastohost realistic question is how many people can you even host on $6/mo, storage, etc?
husbandpanda
@mastohost I can understand that in general, but to avoid oversimplifying and delve a little - the server capacity limitation sits within what? Storage? I/O? CPU? Memory? What gets taxed with (dozens of active users) vs (tons of cross server follows)?
Masto.host
@husbandpanda It's hard to say. Per hour, how many posts will the active users make? How many of those posts will include media attachments? How many of those attachments are videos? How many interactions (boosts, favs, replies) will the users make? The answer to each of those questions will have a different impact in terms of CPU/IO/RAM etc.
As usually one cannot predict that, it's hard to determine and I don't even track/limit things like CPU/IO/RAM per instance.
Masto.host
@luana No, only Mastodon main release is available and no changes to the Mastodon code are possible.
🏳️🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️🌈 :verified:
@john @mastohost Can you choose the instance software/fork and stuff like that?
Masto.host
@husbandpanda As far as I know, nobody has been able to determine CPU/RAM/IO usage needs based on the number of active users.
It's pretty much the same as you being able to determine the CPU/RAM/IO of a WordPress blog, based on the number of authors. I don't think one can determine that.
husbandpanda
@markdennehy @mastohost right now it sounds like there is literally 0 though, so we can't even figure out what might need to be observed. Obviously qualitative analysis of what metrics can be found is kinda key but....
Mark Dennehy
@husbandpanda @mastohost *weeps in observability at the idea that you just need to ship metrics*
husbandpanda
@mastohost so basically $6 may or may not fit whatever and nobody's #monitoring and hopefully things are fine? lol. Sounds like a long term risk.
As a monitoring engineer by profession I would hope people are monitoring things on some level if it's their instances. Not to criticize but just in general for your own sanity.
I get that social media is what it is and people do whatever but it shouldn't be impossible to quantify tbh. Maybe I need to make this a Rust project I do.
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