We've got "Better Boston" up and running as a Mastodon instance, especially for bike/transpo/policy peeps in #GreaterBoston and #Massachusetts, but it can also be a good MA/Boston server in general too.
@meptrsn was the force getting things rolling, and I've got the server running
Please keep in mind, the server is running on extra cloud space I had already. We may need to upgrade if it gets busy.
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@EgbertS I got a super cheap deal from RackNerd, it's like $100/year for 10gb RAM, 4 cores. Email is Mailgun, uploaded images are Wasabi.
If we gain steady traffic, we can start moving services (Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis) to other similarly cheap/long-term machines to keep things cheap.
We can always hop on a cloud in an emergency - may take a little downtime, but I've run through the Mastodon install 3 times now and it's not bad.
@EgbertS not running in Docker FYI
This was the main guide I used for making sure all 3 instances share Redis/Postgres/Elastic: https://nfgworld.com/multiple-mastodon-instances-on-a-single-server/
and ofc official "Install from Source"
There's a few places where the install from source guide breaks, especially when it comes to nginx/certbot, but I hit those for the first instance, too. hurts more when you mess up and it kills a prev. instance running fine
also, running 1st instance w/out redis/pg ns, and 2+3 w/ ns worked fine (afaik)
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