Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 17, 2019

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Show threadGuillaume RossNov 3, 2022
@jerry How much hardware do you need to keep things snappy right now? Interacting with users on your instance is nice, vs the "official instance" where things are so sluggish!
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙
@g I describe the system here: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/109245476099234071
Jerry Bell (@[email protected])

@cirriustech for once, I got out ahead of that problem - the server is sitting almost idle. Last time there was a mass exodus from twitter, I was running the site in a VM and things didn't go so well. I moved to a pretty substantial bare metal system (16 core AMD zen3, 128GB ram, 8TB of NVME storage). I suspect the next move for me is to offload images to a CDN so that most of the larger content is served closer to where people are...

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Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 3, 2022
@g but keep in mind that Infosec.exchange has about 200x fewer people using it than mastodon.social.
Show threadGuillaume RossNov 3, 2022
@jerry Yeah I know, but still seems like you threw some solid hardware at it!
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 3, 2022
@g I did, and that was the result of a painful lesson early this year when I had a big influx of people and the server fell apart. I had an intuition that it would happen again, so I overcorrected, but I can now see that I’ll have to start scaling out the environment (splitting DB onto separate system, etc)