Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org⁩ to ⁨fediversenews@venera.social⁩

I currently have 13.5K followers on atomicpoet.org, and I’m running this server on 2GB of RAM. Despite, this, everything is clearly operational and running smoothly.

And if you want to know why this is a big deal, the more followers you have on the Fediverse, the more resources your server needs.

When I was running servers that weren’t Akkoma+Mangane, using this little RAM with this many followers was unthinkable. Mind you, this is one day after my migration happened – so there’s lots more to test!

@fediversenews

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jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@Chris Trottier As I wrote earlier this year:

Someone somewhere out there probably starts their Pleroma instance with:

LOAD"PLER*",8,1 RUN

It's that lightweight.

#Pleroma #C64
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goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@atomicpoet Dear god, that would slaughter friendica. I give it 8 gigs and I have a tenth of the followers that you do.
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Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@atomicpoet @fediversenews
I'm using a 4 cores 24 Gb server, to be fair, it's only using 6 Gb.
I hit the limit when someone with lots of followers boost or reply to my posts because of the CPU.
The main culprit is sidekick and maybe the lack of HW acceleration on SSL due to the ARM architecture.
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- genewitch@fediverse.projectftm.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  @Andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @fediversenews@venera.social
  I've been maintaining a misskey server (here) and it's connected to ~10,000 instances with 2.6 million post records. It likes to expand into 16GB of ram then relaxes into about ~8GB. I am fairly certain it would be ok with fewer memories.
  
  My biggest gripe about fediverse is the storage. I have to cull data so i don't have to monkeypatch drive size increases on the hypervisor. median storage is about 300GB give or take.
  
  What's wild is that it was only about 2700 instances in november, but a large mastodon instance imploded and the userbase went everywhere, so as people posted "here i am" i added them, and that ballooned the connected instances.
  
  hooray for open source, i think.
  Attachment: fediverse.projectftm.com ↗
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samir@m.fedica.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@atomicpoet @fediversenews usually the issue is how many people are followed and if you use relays
Followers don't need a lot of resources.
If you follow 13k people there would be a much bigger storage requirement (you would get data from each of them)
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