Poll for those managing well-running mastodon instances:
1. How many accounts?
2. What are your server specs?
@bkeej
1. 14
2. 8GB RAM, 4 vCores (E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz), 250GB SSD, 250 Mbit/s
@PorFavorDama @bkeej Not a whole lot of activity on this instance yet, so I' m not sure. Load is still very low. I imagine something like ~5k users should be fine with some tuning. Media storage is something that might become problematic with numbers like that down the line. Luckily, there's S3 for that if needed.
@PorFavorDama @bkeej that'd probably let you run one web worker to leave enough RAM for redis/postgres/sidekiq. Probably wouldn't handle *too* many concurrent requests. Perhaps 100-250, depending on how active they'll be at the same time? (I'm mostly guesstimating here :wink:)
@bkeej 2700 users, 4x same 4GB RAM + cheap 4thread CPU (2 app, 1 lb/pg/redis, 1 sidekiq)
@bkeej
1.1
2. 1 gce g1-small instance (0.5 shared cpu, 1.7gb memory)
hovering at 10% cpu use
@bkeej I'm running a personal instance (notspam.tk), which currently only has one account. I'm running it on an old desktop with a dual-core Pentium E5200 and 3GB of RAM, shared with some static and git hosting.
@bkeej I'm running a single user instance on a Raspberry Pi 2 and it's doing pretty okay performance wise
* Running m.ii.md
* 5 accounts
* Server has 4 GB RAM and 1 vCPU ($20 tier at Vultr https://www.vultr.com/pricing/)
I found that the $10 tier with 2 GB of RAM didn't suffice, mostly because of the number of remote follows (~3.3k+)
@bkeej how do I determi ne if my instance is well running?
@bkeej You can simply go to their "about" page if they specified these statistics and specs of course.
But I would like to know more about their specs too, to have my own instance maybe some day.