@realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social @freemo @moonman We had a chat here yesterday, and the poster is running a Single user instance, on mastodon software.
Four cores in a vM dedicated to this beast. Argh!
It seems to be a ball of Spaghetti, from my un-educated expectator, User view. He posted Stats and it showed quite a bit of resource use, for that single user.
Some people run Pleroma on a Raspberry Pi, although I would rather use an older PC box.
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The status was here : https://mastodon.echoz.io/@chris/104164500877416282
And indeed the huge instances like m.s. are way apart in their operation conditions than the smaller and medium ones.
Eugen wants it to become an alternative to corp social networks, so that makes sense. Imagine the complexity with millions of users daily.
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Hardware is cheap, an extra cost at lower user levels for a reduced cost at high user levels seems reasonable to me. Its only at higher user levels the costs become relevant for me.
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@benis @realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social @freemo @moonman Interesting, I just visited yor front door. 😃
https://benis.freemyip.com/main/public
I would think an older machine or laptop is less grief too.
If you need help let me know. I could probably set that up in no time since I know my way around linux pretty well and web servers in general.
Thank you! For you it would be easy, yes, as you already are comfortable in both the OS and with similar software, mastodon.
Might be a good chance to see how real the comments I heard about the Pleroma installation guides being friendly are. I have spare hardware, an empty new SSD, and it's just a question of deciding to jump into this for fun some week.
But it would start with a linux learning curve, the underlining foundation to Pleroma. WE will see - I have been thinking of starting some writing again, that would be nice.
Learning linux int he computer world is a must.. I highly recommend the exercise.
I downloaded and installed it various times. First time as an all nighter, dial-up session, for the 1.44 MB disk images. 😃
Later CDs, what a difference. Bought my son Mandrake 7 boxed as a gift, and he loved it, works on linux everyday, he's Comp Sci grad. Good choice of gift, I will say. 😉
But I always feel unproductive, noobyish and missing all the tools I have on hand in Windows, so it soon gets dropped. Would need a spare system just for learning and leaving my work machine intact.
This christmas I'm getting anyone who ever bought me socks for christmas a Linux installation CD :)
Agreed if we are talking about a production website.
But if he sets it up knowing its going to be a shit show until he learns, and likely will loose some data along the way, then hey, let the guy play with a website :)
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I should mention having been an Irix user a looong time ago. 😛
And loving it, as a user only, we never touched the boxen.
My blog page tells some more : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/joining-the-internet-in-the-mid-90s
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True, but on large professional instances mastodon will be more performant.
You have to keep in mind as is often the case with servers minimal resources tends to mean you loose things necessary to load balance multiple instances (such as redis)
I haven't actually tested it but my guess is pleroma would struggle to handle massive instances like M.S, or even extremely heavy loads from non-users, but excel when dealing with very small user bases that dont get a lot of attention.
You need a lot of extra resources to have the proper elements in place for elastic scaling.
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