What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?
You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀
It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).
@gruff I’m mostly like “you better store it, or else!”
(Sorry, I don’t get the question. Apparently I’m using > 20GB of database space – what’s taking all that up, I don’t know – and the masto.host interface shows 0GB of media storage being used, which I’m assuming is a bug.)
@aral I was just trying to get a handle on where the costs were for your plan. Media storage would normally be the killer, I would have thought, if hosting stuff for others. But if it's just 'busy' because of all your users I guess there's lots of network traffic.
I just thought it a lot of money given the costs of a small OVH VPS self host sort of approach which is less than £5 a month (40Gb storage and unlimited traffic).
Aral Balkan
Gareth Kitchen