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Allen Very Serious Versfeld

@wogan @george I had been working an a $10 baseline, which is a little more than masto.host. but that might not matter - their pricing model is very technical - I don't expect any of my customers to know how many Processing Threads they need :)

But I also don't really know yet what it's going to cost until I've run an instance for a month and measured how much traffic and storage I'm paying for. Just watching these conversations, I've seen my estimates were way off!

21 Dec 2022 at 11:47 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
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Wogan May

@uastronomer @george I'll be sharing 100% of the costs on about.mastodon.africa for the instance I'm running, but I'm forecasting about $100-$150/month for:

* t3.medium EC2 VM
* Elastic IP
* S3 storage and transit

When my first full month is completed I'll post the detailed per-service breakdown.

21 Dec 2022 at 11:59 | Open on mastodon.africa
Wogan May

@uastronomer @george 2 days in and $4 spent, I'm about on track for $60 in the first month, but I expect that to climb as the relays bring in more cached content to the S3 bucket.
21 Dec 2022 at 12:00 | Open on mastodon.africa
Wogan May

@uastronomer @george Arguably a t3.medium is overpowered for the current workload (I'm averaging like 5-10% CPU) but (a) deployments and frontend rebuilds are CPU-intensive and (b) I'd rather have the headroom to deal with surges in activity + ensure decent uptime. But we'll see how it goes!
21 Dec 2022 at 12:02 | Open on mastodon.africa
Allen Very Serious Versfeld

@wogan @george That's actually not too bad!

I'm hoping for way lower costs per user though, since I'm pushing small private instances.
mastodon.monoceros.co.za is single-user, so far, and is doing okay on a t3.micro, with no ELB and a postgres RDS instance. Coping well so far, based on watching CPU burst credit usage. We'll see how it copes over time though.

Meanwhile, work continues on automating as much of the New Instance Creation process as possible. I als

@wogan @george That's actually not too bad!

I'm hoping for way lower costs per user though, since I'm pushing small private instances.
mastodon.monoceros.co.za is single-user, so far, and is doing okay on a t3.micro, with no ELB and a postgres RDS instance. Coping well so far, based on watching CPU burst credit usage. We'll see how it copes over time though.

21 Dec 2022 at 12:43 | Open on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
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