> $6 will get you 4 cores, 8GB of RAM and 200GB of storage.
Wow, where do you get that?
Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate
by pantalaimon on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:53AM
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Contabo.com. I use two of their servers to self-host some stuff and so far they've been quite stable. There are other cheap providers but they're often of questionable reliability. Luckily you can pay monthly rather than yearly like many other budget VPS providers, which convinced me to try them out back in the day.
Some of the more dependable options for affordable servers, in my experience:
- https://contabo.com/en/vps/ (they used to have a reputation for overprovisioning, but stable service)
- https://www.hetzner.com/cloud (they asked me for my ID photos for verification, but otherwise one of the better options)
- https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link, I use them currently for all of my long term hosting)
Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate
by flanked-evergl on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:09AM
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> $6 will get you 4 cores, 8GB of RAM and 200GB of storage.
Pretty reasonable, from who though? Also do they support IaC so that you can tear down and rebuild automatically?
Most of the cheap VPS providers I've seen don't provide API access to create/destroy the instance. After it's created, you can bootstrap it for docker with ssh+bash or Ansible giving more options for a consistent deploy flow.
I've lost more than my fair share of servers to cost-cutters. Fuck that. Life is too short.
Also, you can't suggest that everyone should run 4 vCPU/8 GB RAM. Sure, 99% will never need more than that. The 1% who go viral will. If those people have 4/8 servers, because that's what was recommended, then anybody who goes viral will have their server die a fiery death. Behold, the social network's reputation will be that virality is a kiss of death. Watch as everyone leaves in droves.
Federated social needs federation AND spike resilience. Serverless handles your fifteen minutes of fame with ease at a small premium. Discount VPS providers do not.
$6 will get you 4 cores, 8GB of RAM and 200GB of storage. If you need more storage, find a cheap S3 host and use that with Mastodon for file storage.
I don't quite see the point of going Amazon specific with an open API like this but I'm sure you can implement ActivityPub using whatever Amazon offers. You'll probably start racking up a bill quite quickly though. I don't see how using AWS is possibly a lower technical barrier when there's a docker-compose file ready to use already.