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One for the #Elastic / #Elasticsearch folks out there. Elastic are offering their on-demand training for free at the moment which I've just discovered also includes access to their labs. The training is pretty solid (I've done a few paid ones in the past) but the lab access makes it super valuable. I am working through one of the certs now (I need to complete a cert to renew two of my current ones) but it might be useful for other #tech folks out there

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#getFedihired - Know #MongoDB and/or #ElasticSearch and/or GNU/Linux #sysadm ? Expecially if you know #Ansible and/or #python and #shell scripting

A couple US or India #WFH positions opening up for 24/7 support ( includes #weekend and #holiday shifts )

US roles are US daytimes, India roles are the other 16 hours of day

DM me if you're interested ( job listings coming soon )

We should also have some SRE and dev positions and a MongoDB DBA position soon

Day 1 of running my own #fediverse instance has come and gone and so far so good.

Having access to everything under the hood, it's interesting watching the gears turn and the software work. Most interesting for me is seeing how much space is eaten up by media files that get shared out.

Obviously I only have a single day to base things off but day 1 ate up around 16 GB of storage. Thankfully all my media is pointing to #linode object storage so at least the storage is cheap. But it was definitely interesting to see how much space gets eaten up.

So far the initial hurdles have been around tuning #elasticsearch so it continues indexing at a reasonable pace without eating the server alive, and around starting to establish maintenance jobs that I can schedule as crontabs so the server can stay afloat while my life continues to be the busy thing that it is.

I'd definitely take suggestions from folks who are either running their own instances or have done so in the past. I've got #postgresql backups automated (both the creation and cleanup of) with PgAgent. Also running "rake mastodon:media:clear" as a nightly cronjob to periodically remove uploads that have not been attached to any status after a while, but that's kind of it.

While it's not at all my first rodeo with the care and feeding of a server, it is indeed my first rodeo running my own Mastodon instance so I'd happily take any articles folks have that they found helpful or just general advice if you have time to share.

Rolled out #Elasticsearch on Earth.Law today. If you're looking for a home on the #fediverse with robust #search capabilities, you can now search through post content, bookmarks, and historical discussions here with better accuracy and speed.

A small #Mastodon Instance focused on #EnvironmentalLaw, #ClimatePolicy, and related discourse.

Mastodon hosted on earth.lawEarth.lawfor 🌎 Earth, 🦎 Earthlings, and their ⚖️ Advocates.

I'm looking at alternatives for setting up #Opensearch for my Mastodon instance. Currently use #ElasticSearch on the same server & it's bogging me down

I either can spin something up on a new VPS or get a hosted solution

The pricing isn't clicking with me. For example, AWS bills by the hour

Anyone have experience with this? #MastoAdmin

Trying to figure out what it will cost me

self-hosted, use relays

Minimum CPU and memory for just me. Also, I use search a lot

current ES stats below.

Selfhosted instance.

I am thinking of breaking #Postgres and #ElasticSearch to a separate server instead of increasing my current VPS resources.

I'll have two servers. My main, which will run Mastodon, and another that will have Postgres and ElasticSearch on it.

Will I benefit by doing this or should I just move ElasticSearch to its own server? What is the minimum CPU/ram I can get for the second server & what should I get?

Or, other thoughts welcomed.
#MastoAdmin

Unless you #selfhost your own #mastodon instance, or you're a #mastoAdmin, you have likely taken #fullTextSearch for granted.

Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.

Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!

Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).

Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.