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Interesting thread from Aral on the issues of #Mastodon with 32K followers and following 7K :mastodon:

For 50€/month I thought you could have better performance.

➡️ mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109836226

@ricard I don't want to speak badly about his host: masto.host is very competent, and very good at what they do, but ultimately that is the cost of shared infra, I'm afraid.

AFAIK @aral is running on a plan which provides him with 12 sidekiq threads, for $40 pcm.

I'm on a VPS that costs me $14 per month, and is running 25 threads comfortably - so more than twice as 'fast'* for less than half the money.

For $40 a month he could probably run a server that could sustain far more threads on dedicated hardware, but it would come at significant setup cost: Optimising sidekiq and Postgres for Mastodon is far from trivial, and that's part of what you pay for with a hosted service.

*) Obviously speed is about more than the number of processes, so please don't take this too literally.

Aral Balkan

@michael @ricard Yeah, Hugo is lovely. It’s just the shared architecture isn’t designed to cover the kind of load I’m putting onto it apparently.