My job has been Database Admin for the past 25 years, still is. But nowadays it’s more shifting to infrastructure and automation.

And of course I do some self-hosting… like lemmy.world and mastodon.world and many others…

Thank you @[email protected] for creating this community!

  • @huojtkeg
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    11 year ago

    Just Postgres or Postgres + Pics? Could you give me the number for Postgres? I’m thinking in hosting my server but I have concerns abot scalability and costs in the future.

    • RuudOPA
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      21 year ago
      du -sm *
      2181	pictrs
      1885	postgres
      
      • @huojtkeg
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        11 year ago

        It seems a lot for little content. My experience tells me that Postgres is not going to scale well, some sort of NoSQL will be necessary.

        • RuudOPA
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          11 year ago

          Why not? My mastodon DB is 200 GB, works fine.

          • @huojtkeg
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            1 year ago

            It depends on many things like the number of tables, the indexes, etc… but Postgres doesn’t work well above 1 TB. Anyway, it will take several years to reach that point. Someone will figure out a solution.

            Thank you for the info. Do you have any link with the specs of your server, bandwidth, cpu/ram usage, statistics…? Anything that could help me to do the maths.

            • RuudOPA
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              51 year ago

              • @pcr3
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                11 year ago

                I’m curious, how have the numbers changed in the last few weeks?

                • RuudOPA
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                  21 year ago

                  Well we use a new server now, with 32 core/64 threads and 128GB RAM. So quite some more…

                  • @pcr3
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                    11 year ago

                    haha that’s awesome! keep up the good work.