About 1.5 years of running a small mastodon server.
Running costs currently are about 1€ per active user a month.
Would probably scale to a lot more users with not much cost increase. CPU-wise the server barely has any load.
A very big chunk of the cost is just the caching of media files. about 120GB for 3 days worth of caching
@darkrat Curious about the caching - our instance hovers between 60Gi-100Gi of storage for all our media (our weekly cleanup usually cleans ~30Gi a week). What are you running for cleanup?
@arch just the normal cleanup job that runs once a day. Nothing extra.
Main usage of the storage comes from the connection to the infosec.exchange relay. Storage usage went up quite a bit since adding that. But it's really needed when you want posts to be spread a little and see an active federated timeline
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