[bitfolk] Re: Hosting Mastodon

I'm hosting two single-user instances of Mastodon on my multi-purpose Bitfolk VPS. I haven't noticed any resource issues, despite running mastodon-{web,sidekiq,streaming} twice. I have nginx serving a media cache of 1Gi, with the actual media in Google's S3-equivalent storage, which is steadily growing at about 10Gi/month, which adds an extra couple of pence every billing period. Last month's bill was £0.87. You don't necessarily need cloud-backed storage: new Mastodon has decent tooling to delete old media, but I chose to so that I would never have to think too hard about disk space. I picked Google over AWS as they have a reassuring "delete everything" button that AWS seems to lack. Douglas