AdminAug 4, 2024

📈 But as mentioned in our previous announcement, the main problem we face is the continuous growth of our Database. Indeed, while our Media disk space is only 33.39 % full (133.56 GB / 400 GB), our Database disk space is already 89.45 % full (35.78 GB / 40 GB).

On Masto.host, each unit of Extra Resources add-on costs 10$ / month (without tax) and adds 4 Processing Threads, 4 GB of Database, and 40 GB of Media Storage: https://masto.host/pricing/#Add-ons

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📊 Our disk space usage has been multiplied by 3 over the last year (from 11.9 GB to 35.78 GB), and its capacity by 2 (from 20 GB to 40 GB).
Aug 4, 2024 at 1:31pmWeb
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📊 Over the same period, our number of monthly active users fell from 373 to 325 (−48), while the number of total members rose from 819 to 1100 (+281).
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2️⃣ OUR DECISION

We can’t afford for our hosting costs to keep rising indefinitely, waiting for the Mastodon dev team to come up one day with an alternative implementation of a rentention policy for cached content and media (you can read the discussion on GitHub started by Hugo — the guy who runs Masto.host https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/19260).

RE: retention policy for cached content and media · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #19260

The recent PR #19232 adding a retention policy for cached content and media can significantly reduce the resources used by Mastodon. In particular, the storage needs. This is something that admins ...

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