how much does running a mastodon instance of 1000 users costs? Disabling Images and allowing only text is one of my condition. So if I do that, will that change cost? I am thinking of a VPS so that i can have greater control over instance functionality
How much Storage and RAM will be required roughly?
Storage costs should be pretty low for an instance very few would want to use.
suppose I kidnap 1000 people and force them to use mastodon without images, how much will it cost then? jk
In all seriousness, we can’t really give a cost estimate because you haven’t given us your hosting scenario. Are you hosting on your own hardware, on a VPS, or using a provider that specializes in hosting Mastodon servers?
I am thinking of a VPS so that i can have greater control over instance functionality
https://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-server#choose-how-youd-like-to-host
Digital Ocean is used as an example because they have a quick setup Mastodon option. It looks like $14/mo minimum if you’re going to run Elastisearch. Without that tool in memory you might get away with 1GB of memory which is $7/mo. But the author also notes that with Elastisearch his VPS uses about 2GB of ram so he’s actually running the 4GB $21/mo plan.
Even without images, you’ll still need quite a bit of space. I’m not sure 50GB would cut it for 1000 semi-active users. Also you’ll need to pay for the domain name.
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He also explains how to offload storage to another service for $5 a month if you want to add images back in.