URGENT MASTODON HOSTING HELP NEEDED:

[lax@tooot.im]

@simonzerafa @britt @hetzner second that, they're they cheapest too

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@britt @ProcoliX @koen @hans @wsslmn @blog
ProcoliX is a very good EU Hosting option. especially for Fediverse hosting👍🏾

[zikko@toot.cat]

@britt For EU Hoster I recommend Hetzner. Professionel and good support. But not cheap.

[inonkp@mastodon.social]

@britt
would you consider aws?

[britt@mstdn.games]

@MelkyWay Sure, please do! Thank you for asking, my DMs exploded and i'm trying to keep up.

[flaki@flaki.social]

@britt cc @shlee (though, admittedly, they are AU)

[sarah@phpc.social]

@britt hi there. I run a hosting company and though we’re US-based we’re happy to host clients in Canada on Canadian infrastructure (we use AWS infrastructure). Let me know if I can help.

[britt@mstdn.games]

@admin I have great experiences with Hugo and highly recommend his services to anyone seeking managed hosting for smaller instances. We were with him for almost 2 years.

[markus@dresden.network]

@admin what are your criterias?

[timo_micro@scicomm.xyz]

@britt No recommendation, no need to follow-up, just wanted to let you know you're doing a kick-ass job, you clearly care for your instance, have gathered a nice community and are doing all of this next to everything else you've got going on, so yay you and I hope someone's able to point you in the right direction (and perhaps even help out)

[ml@social.mitexleo.one]

@britt I recommend using Hetzner for the server and backblaze B2 for S3 Storage.

[xchaos@f.cz]

@britt our instance has slightly smaller database and slightly higher media storage. Overall, I think we can offer you managed hosting using our tested configuration.

132 GB SQL is really a lot. Our basic offer is about 40€ per month, but I expected database to be much smaller, this implies really lot of RAM required to run the VPS. I must ask my fellow admin about pricing of extra resources.

Can I ask how big is size of SQL backup? (compressed, as .tar.gz)

I have tested tooctl with undocumented parameters to clean old statuses without local interactions (it is really a must, to prevent database from growing). It can be set up to clean eg. statuses older than 365 days, if there were no interactions by local users (nobody doomscrolls more than cca 1 week in the past anyway...)

On the other hand, we have Elasticsearch tested and running (on separate VPS, for stability). And yes, we offer managed VPS, we would handle Mastodon upgrades.

We are in EU and we run all our stack including HW (we are local ISP, primarily)

[britt@mstdn.games]

@Timo_Micro Thank you so much for your kindness in the midst of what feels like chaos. <3 I really do try my best with this project, given that I never ever expected it to get this big and have this many users with so many amazing supporters keeping us online.

They deserve my absolute best.

[michael@mstdn.thms.uk]

@britt Https://masto.host would be my recommendation.

[gossithedog@cyberplace.social]

@britt try @hosting https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html

[shaneisgames@mstdn.games]

@britt Bookmarked this a while back, might be useful should you need technical assistance:

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113398197875297373

Non-free, but I'd be willing to subsidize the cost if needed.

[lps@mograph.social]

@britt if it hasn't already been suggested in the thread, since you're in Canada an affordable and awesome choice is https://fedihost.co/ @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co

[britt@mstdn.games]

@GossiTheDog … Do you know how to get in touch with Jan at toot.io? More importantly, do you know if he is ok?

That’s where we are hosted and having trouble.

He’s not replied to my email or DM asking for help.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Have you attempted to compress the database, prune old media, the works? That might save you a few vital gigabytes while you manage to move

[nicole4fox@datastream.cortexvoid.net]

@britt Hetzner