Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.
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Notes & Links
Interview
One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | This is Ship It! | 00:37 |
| 2 | 00:52 | Sponsor: Sentry | 02:15 |
| 3 | 03:12 | Scaling decentralized things | 00:59 |
| 4 | 04:10 | What are Webrings? | 00:21 |
| 5 | 04:32 | How Justin met his wife | 03:24 |
| 6 | 07:56 | What does Toolio do? | 02:14 |
| 7 | 10:10 | Start of Hachyderm | 02:37 |
| 8 | 12:47 | Traditional scaling | 02:27 |
| 9 | 15:14 | Extra stress | 04:02 |
| 10 | 19:16 | When did you need a CDN? | 01:00 |
| 11 | 20:16 | Where does funding come frome? | 00:39 |
| 12 | 20:55 | Nivenly's other projects | 00:52 |
| 13 | 21:47 | Nivenly spending & Hachyderm cost | 02:23 |
| 14 | 24:20 | Sponsor: System Initiative | 03:31 |
| 15 | 27:59 | The Hachyderm team | 01:22 |
| 16 | 29:21 | Redis licensing | 00:30 |
| 17 | 29:50 | Manual deployment | 01:57 |
| 18 | 31:47 | Who gets paged? | 02:21 |
| 19 | 34:08 | How many active users? | 00:25 |
| 20 | 34:33 | Next fallover | 02:59 |
| 21 | 37:32 | Most painful part of infrastructure | 02:12 |
| 22 | 39:44 | Data residency | 03:39 |
| 23 | 43:22 | Why Germany? | 01:17 |
| 24 | 44:39 | Why are DMCAs an issue? | 00:59 |
| 25 | 45:38 | The intent | 00:27 |
| 26 | 46:12 | Sponsor: Timescale | 02:17 |
| 27 | 48:33 | Blocking other servers? | 02:21 |
| 28 | 50:54 | Mastodon server blacklist? | 01:47 |
| 29 | 52:41 | Performance costs of Threads | 02:48 |
| 30 | 55:29 | Threads metadata | 03:42 |
| 31 | 59:10 | Individual blocklist & migrations | 05:32 |
| 32 | 1:04:42 | Figuring out archiving | 01:05 |
| 33 | 1:05:47 | Long term risks | 00:31 |
| 34 | 1:06:18 | Always looking for volunteers | 01:52 |
| 35 | 1:08:10 | Thanks for joining us! | 01:10 |
| 36 | 1:09:20 | Outro | 01:12 |