Will following accounts in #Threads from my #solohosting #fediverse site create a massive traffic to my tiny #mastodon instance?

Mastodon is famous for caching many gigabytes of posts and profile pictures that have to be deleted every day.

I tried to enable #Elasticsearch in my #Mastodon solo instance, and it triggered a huge workload to index around 17 million documents.

This process would have taken several days to complete with the current resources allocated to the instance.

I opted for terminating the process and disabling Elasticsearch, but I'd like to hear other experiences:

- Is this only a temporary behavior? (ie. after initial indexation it becomes easier on the server).

- Is there any periodic 'cleanup' process? (ie. my server ingest many GB of toots every day, will I end up with a huge Elasticsearch database?).

- Am I missing something valuable for not implementing Elasticsearch?

Looking forward to hear your thoughts.

#mastoadmin #solohosting

One angle not much explored about self-hosting your own fediverse services is the ability to apply different data protection policies.

If you run a public service, you need to provide a minimum standard, which normally assumes that all the data is somehow valuable, so you need to budget for resilience, backup, etc.

If you run you own services, you may choose which data is actually valuable, disposable or even ephemeral, which could potentially lead to some savings. 🤔

#solohosting #selfhosting

@PlukkiePanda of bouw je eigen serverje, #solohosting: https://blog.myfed.space/build-your-own-fediverse-server

(ik zal wel een keer iets voor echte beginners schrijven 😉 )

https://blog.myfed.space/build-your-own-fediverse-server