mastodon.social served 1TB of traffic on August 17th, if that's a piece of trivia you're interested in (I was)
That was traffic without pictures. Pictures were 4TB on top on that day.
@Gargron holy shit, where do you store all that data?
@Gargron
0_0. that's a lot. was it special for that single day, or is it the amount of data m.s has grown into serving daily.
@Gargron that's quite the AWS bill isn't it
@fred No AWS here thankfully lol. I have a clever and cost-efficient setup.
@Gargron phew! care to share sometime?
@fred Run on dedicated root servers on Hetzner, host media uploads on Wasabi, minimize Wasabi traffic by proxy-caching in front of it, with Cloudflare caching in front of that.
@Gargron that's a spicy meatball

@Gargron
Cool, that's within an order of magnitude from our high bandwidth project (the free software mirror, about 25 TB/day).

Would be really neat to see that kind of usage over here at our instance. Maybe some day in the future.