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Do you want to have your own #Mastodon instance? How about #Peertube, #Nextcloud, #Matrix or a #Pixelfed instance? You can buy a managed hosting of these services from webape.site/
#ManagedHosting means you don't need to have any technical skills or know how to maintain a Linux server, all of that will be done for you. The #Webape project is a small business run by @tio, he also made trom.tf and have been providing all of those #FOSS services for free since 2021.
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wakest ⁂
in reply to Rokosun • • •Tio
in reply to wakest ⁂ • •We use dedicated VPS for each instance and we can upgrade to more powerful servers if necessary. I would say for a small instance around 30€ a month should do very well. If not 60€ should work fine. That is what we offer:
You can give it a try with us if you want, and migrate your account to us. If is not working well you can switch back. I think Mastodon provides such an option for migrating accounts.
wakest ⁂
in reply to Tio • • •Tio
in reply to wakest ⁂ • •No I meant to migrate the current account to a new server. Alternatively you can migrate the entire database and files. Do you know how big is your database?
We also do cleanups from time to time to prune old unused stuff from the Mastodon instances we manage.
wakest ⁂
in reply to Tio • • •here's a screenshot from the mastohost backend
Tio
in reply to wakest ⁂ • •That is a massive database for 1 user. Even our Friendica that has over 1k users is half that size. Also a lot of Media storage I see. Likely you should prune the old media that is not even accessed anymore. Else you are caching all media and store it locally.
The biggest Mastodon instance we manage has 2 users, 1 has 23k followers. The database is 3.7GB and stored Media about 40GB,
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Rokosun
in reply to Tio • • •@liaizon
> Likely you should prune the old media that is not even accessed anymore. Else you are caching all media and store it locally.
I assume you're talking about about Mastodon caching remote media from other servers, yeah that should be pruned from time to time.
wakest ⁂
in reply to Tio • • •Tio
in reply to wakest ⁂ • •We also do not give root access to our server to do such things yourself, but we do maintenance to not let the databases grow so much. The account that has 23k followers I was saying about is on our lowest tier. And indeed the database grew a lot but I rather clean it and keep it small than ask to move to a bigger server. We only take a few projects for WebApe and I want do do it right. It is not a business but a paid service so we are able to support our free projects.
In case you want to move to our hosting let us know and maybe we can find a way to transfer your instance, although the best would be to export your Mastodon account, then setup a new instance with us and import your account. So you dont drag a poorly maintained database to the new server.
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Kris
in reply to wakest ⁂ • • •And there I was thinking those prices look quite expensive... I mean your 5k followers is already medium sized, but you could probably self-host something capable of serving that for less than $10 a month.
@futureisfoss @tio @mastohost
wakest ⁂
in reply to Kris • • •Rokosun
in reply to wakest ⁂ • • •@liaizon @kris @mastohost
If you are planning to self-host and manage a server by yourself then I recommend looking into @yunohost
Yunohost is made to be easy to manage by nontechnical folks, tho I still recommend having a bit of Linux experience if you can. Tio and I maintain a Linux distribution called TROMjaro so we know quite a bit about Linux, you don't need to be that involved but just using Linux on your laptop/PC can teach you a lot.