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title: "Hosting mastodon.nz and the recent twitter influx" title: "Hosting mastodon.nz and the recent twitter influx"
tags: ["mastodon", "twitter", "self hosting"] tags: ["mastodon", "twitter", "self hosting"]
date: "2022-05-08" date: "2022-05-09"
featuredimagepreview: "/server1.jpg" featuredimagepreview: "/server1.jpg"
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April 2022 brought a nice little surprise - I started getting notifications of new users joining [mastodon.nz](https://mastodon.nz). Confused I started to look at what has changed.. Didn't take long to realise this was only the beginning. I had to allocate more resource to the container to account for the higher throughput. April 2022 brought a nice little surprise - I started getting notifications of new users joining [mastodon.nz](https://mastodon.nz). Confused I started to look at what has changed.. Didn't take long to realise this was only the beginning. I had to allocate more resource to the container to account for the higher throughput.
You can see in the image below it started to approach the allocated 3GB - I bumped it up to 4GB, then shortly after up to 6GB. That's as much as I could give it without moving to bigger hardware. You can see in the image below it started to approach the allocated 3GB - I bumped it up to 4GB, then shortly after up to 6GB. That's as much as I could give it without moving to bigger hardware. (The drop a the end was a service restart after a version upgrade).
{{< image src="/masto_memory.jpg" caption="Memory usage in mastodon.nz container" >}} {{< image src="/masto_memory.jpg" caption="Memory usage in mastodon.nz container" >}}
I thought that would be enough for now. Nope. I got an email from Sendgrid that we had hit their 100 email/day free tier limit. Crap. I managed to upgrade the plan to account for the burst of registrations before any emails started to bounce. I thought that would be enough for now. Nope.
I got an email shortly after from Sendgrid advising that we were approaching their 100 email/day free tier limit. Crap. I managed to upgrade the plan to account for the burst of registrations before any emails started to bounce.
{{< image src="/sendgrid.jpg" caption="Email throughput peaking around 400/day" >}} {{< image src="/sendgrid.jpg" caption="Email throughput peaking around 400/day" >}}
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{{< image src="/server_prov.jpg" caption="Provisioning everything (Excuse the mess)"src_s="/server_prov.jpg" src_l="/server_prov_l.jpg" >}} {{< image src="/server_prov.jpg" caption="Provisioning everything (Excuse the mess)"src_s="/server_prov.jpg" src_l="/server_prov_l.jpg" >}}
{{< image src="/server_disk.jpg" caption="Disk setup" >}}
After about 6 hours of configuring and installing everything required, I was ready to make a trip to a local datacenter to rack it (Thanks to previously mentioned friend!) and start the painful migration. After about 6 hours of configuring and installing everything required, I was ready to make a trip to a local datacenter to rack it (Thanks to previously mentioned friend!) and start the painful migration.
More to come soon.
Part two coming soon!

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