I will be closing new sign ups on Masto.host for the next days.
Nothing major going on, just want to take my time and evaluate how the infrastructure is handling the recent influx of traffic, install new servers and move things around.
Hope you understand 🐘
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Thanks!
A couple steps took a while, then the credit card submission says "your subscription got stuck in processing"
@mastohost I'm curious if it's possible to use masto.host to host a Mastodon server that follows the "Mastodon Server Covenant".
In particular, is there another person with infrastructure access in the event you are not available?
Nice...
I'm still missing something like an imprint. Who are you and where?
Prices in some $ indicates a country outside the EU.
So i guess, customers from within the EU probably are not in the scope of masto.host.
@nick Hello,
Masto.host is a one person company located in Portugal, as mentioned in the Terms of Service https://masto.host/tos/ and Privacy Policy https://masto.host/privacy/
The servers are hosted on OVH in France, as you see in the infrastructure details https://masto.host/infrastructure/
Regarding the prices in $US , that has to do with most of my clients being from outside Europe (mostly US) and I decided to opt for what would be the easiest for most clients, instead of opting for my local currency.
@ahaldorsen Thank you so much. I have been taking it at my pace :)
Regarding the estimate, it's just that. I have instances on the Moon plan (5 estimated) with hundreds of active users and they are not hitting the limits. I have other cases where a single user instance can be on the Galaxy plan.
So, it really depends on the usage and Active Users is not what defines the plan you need (there are no limits in place for users, registered or active). The value is just provided as a rough estimate
@ahaldorsen From 'about the plans' in the pricing page: "The number of registered users on your server is not limited. There is also no limit on the number of active users. This value is just provided to give a rough estimate based on usage seen across Mastodon servers." - https://masto.host/pricing/
I really don't know of a better way to provide an illustration on what plan someone should choose when you are first getting started and don't have an idea on your resource needs.
@ahaldorsen Yes, that is true and that's why I was asking because there is a large number of accounts headers/avatars in the storage. Thought that could be the culprit.
Still, if/when this fix https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22149 is introduced in Mastodon, you should see a significant reduction in media usage in tutoteket.no case.
This implements a new sub-commands for tootctl media called remove-profile-media to remove avatar and header images of remote accounts that appear inactive from the local database. Fixes #9567 : ab...
@ahaldorsen I am currently testing it to be sure nothing is breaks with the new feature. If all goes well, as I expect it, I will add it to the automated cache deletion: https://masto.host/re-mastodon-media-storage/
Still, this can take a couple of weeks before reaching every server because I need to go slow on these first deletions or I will destroy the object storage :)
Regarding the "Media cache retention period", I don't believe that changed. Still does nothing to Avatars/Headers.
@ahaldorsen It was getting close to finishing (about a week left) but v4.1.1 introduced a bug where I had to stop it, you can see the open issue here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24149
I am waiting for a solution to be able to finish it.
This takes a long time because I need to do it one by one to avoid overloading the object storage but will be added to the regular cache deletion as soon as possible.
Steps to reproduce the problem Running tootctl media remove --prune-profiles in an instance with ElasticSearch Expected behaviour Process the command Actual behaviour Returns an error for each file...
@mastohost I can't recommend Hugo and masto.host enough. He got us through the explosion in mastodon interest over these last few months.
If you've ever had any interest in running your own mastodon instance, you should take a look at what he has to offer.
Well, compared to the horror stories, my experience has been seamless and good.
Sounds like a great person to talk to if you're interested in:
@mastohost I'm curious, is there anything you can share about your infrastructure evaluation process over the paste month(s)? :)
Any unforeseen points of interest? Challenges given the sudden influx of users? Future-proofing that needed reconsidering?
Project phase 'post-mortems', so to say, always peek my interest. 👍
@FiXato There is really nothing new. All problematic points had been identified long ago.
The main issue I had is that the resource needs grew 20x in a week or so.
The way I scale things, I always leave room for a 4x growth but could not expect or afford to have extra resources for a 20x needs.
But yes, on the tech side nothing surprising came out of the growth, just add more RAM+CPU really :)
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