28 Feb
2023
28 Feb
'23
11:59 p.m.
On 28/02/2023 16:24, Mike Zanker via BitFolk Users wrote:
Looks like my trusty old HP Microserver has come out
in sympathy for Andy’s :) Unfortunately, it’s running my personal Mastodon instance.
I’m thinking of hosting it with BitFolk instead of at home. I’m the only user at the
moment and I don’t envisage having more than another 2 or 3 users. I’m not connected to
any relays as I can’t cope with massive timelines and things are going quite nicely as it
is.
Does 2GiB RAM sound reasonable as a start? My HP has 8GB and is running other things as
well but I rarely see memory usage go above 1.5GB. I’m using AWS (S3 plus Cloudfront) for
the media cache (just for fun and because it’s less than £1 a month) so probably OK with
10-15GiB storage.
Anybody already doing this, either here or with another provider? I did spin up an Amazon
Lightsail instance just to see what life is like elsewhere and wasn’t that impressed - it
uses Cloud-Config which I find a pain in the backside.
Cheers,
Mike
I can't comment on the Mastodon bit, but I'd missed Andy's HP
Microserver problems. One of mine went a little while back and I'm
currently trying to decide whether to fix it or not - looks to just be
the PSU, but it is getting a bit old and they don't fit with my usual
off the shelf for everything ethos so I can just grab a replacement or
upgrade part easily. Then again I could probably sell it and make back
more than the cost of the PSU if I want to later.
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