Doc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 12, 2017

Is anyone starting to get a handle on how Mastodon / OSocial hosting requirements scale with use and time?

Traffic / bandwidth, storage, CPU, etc., with some sort of sense of by users, etc., would be interesting.

What's the users * days of a 1 TB storage capacity going to run? Any thoughts on addressing this as individual nodes start accumulating content?

Should content age out? That solves ... several problems.

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Show threadIan Littman

@dredmorbius ...or keep light stuff local and shove heavy stuff (images, videos) to object storage at utility-billed rates (S3 or a competitor thereto).

Also, feels like various instances have vastly different usage profiles on a per-capita basis. Maybe stuff starts to even out at a large number of users, but dot-social may not have even hit that threshold.

Apr 12, 2017 at 7:24amWeb
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 12, 2017
@iansltx I do strongly expect the Law of Large Numbers to be found fully enforced. Though that's under the jurisdiction of the Law of Emergent Properties as well.