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Nov 18, 2022

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Thanks for supporting Toad.Social — and now also Social.Snorklr.com!With all the uncertainty surrounding Twitter, many democracy-minded activists have migrated to Mastodon to create a protected space rooted in open standards that is free from the ...

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Paul Allen Nov 19, 2022

@davetroy May I ask for some details of your hosting setup?

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Dave Troy

Nov 19, 2022

@allenpg right now on a single AWS instance w 16gb, 4cpu, 320gb, plus Mailgun for SMTP to avoid sender reputation problems. Will likely break out Postgres and Redis onto their own boxes. Then probably Sidekiq.

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Brian Dube Nov 25, 2022

@davetroy @allenpg I had been curious about this too. I'm seeing about 1200 MB idle memory demand for the default docker configuration, which does not include elasticsearch.

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Dave Troy

@singlepotstill @allenpg I would recommend avoiding Docker and its overhead, if you can, unless you have some reason you need it. Elasticsearch only benefits an individual user searching their own posts, so I don't see a ton of utility for it.