It was easy enough to set it up on DigitalOcean. My primary objective was my own identity. Turns out the basic $7/mo can’t keep up with the load at all. I’d need to at least double the instance size to be able to serve the single user (me). Mastodon is quite resource intensive to host. I decided to instead donate that to fosstodon and move there.
I have used rails in production for a company with decent traffic. It’s doable but it requires a lot of optimizations and the minimum starting requirement is high.
I think a Masto.host like model (the one Fosstodon uses) but with proper multi-tenant support and custom domain support is required for self-hosted mastodon to become a viable option.
(I have a desktop lying around unused. I’ll give another try with that but I’d probably have to measure the electricity usage and add an UPS)
The nice thing is that you don't have to run a Mastodon instance to partake in the fediverse, there are a number of other server platforms that can be used. Another popular one is Pleroma[0], which to my understanding is much lighter-weight.
I have used rails in production for a company with decent traffic. It’s doable but it requires a lot of optimizations and the minimum starting requirement is high.
I think a Masto.host like model (the one Fosstodon uses) but with proper multi-tenant support and custom domain support is required for self-hosted mastodon to become a viable option.
(I have a desktop lying around unused. I’ll give another try with that but I’d probably have to measure the electricity usage and add an UPS)