Alan McConchieSep 19, 2025

Admin announcement for #SubduedSocial users:

Our database usage is now past 20GB so we need to upgrade from the $39/mo plan to the $89/mo plan on @mastohost, or we start deleting old remote content (with the downside that we will lose old bookmarked toots and old DMs with other hosts).

It's a flaw in the Mastodon code that presents us with this tough choice. You can read more here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/19260

I suggest our users make copies of any old DMs they want to keep.

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Show threadAlan McConchieSep 29, 2025

I have now set the "Remote content retention period" to 730 days (two years), and we will see if that has a substantial impact on our database storage. If our database doesn't decrease significantly, I will change this to 365 days.

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Show threadAlan McConchieSep 30, 2025

Ok, that content retention change reduced our database storage from 20GB to 17.93GB.

Since we are already now needing to suffer the consequences of some old remote messages going away, I'm going to switch our content retention period from 730 days to 365 days to see if we can get ourselves back under 10GB and onto the cheaper hosting plan. If not, at least it will buy us a lot more time before we approach 20GB again.

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Show threadAlan McConchie

(Perhaps last update for a while?)

After setting "remote content retention period" to 365 days, our database usage is at 11.27 GB out of 20 GB. That's not enough to let us downgrade from the $39/month plan to $19/month, but that's ok: at least now we have breathing room before we outgrow our current plan.

It feels like a lot for such a small instance, but if we have roughly 10 active users, then it's something like $4/month for our core users, so I guess that's reasonable.

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Oct 1, 2025 at 4:35pmWeb
Show threadAlan McConchieOct 1, 2025

Ok, but speaking of that: if you find our little local instance useful (whether or not you are one of our 10 power users, maybe you just like supporting this service for others) please consider supporting our server costs with an (ideally recurring) donation at https://ko-fi.com/subduedsocial

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