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!

  • huojtkegEnglish
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    3 years 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.

    • RuudOPAEnglish
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      3 years ago

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

      • huojtkegEnglish
        2·
        3 years 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.

          • pcr3English
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            3 years ago

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

            • RuudOPAEnglish
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              3 years ago

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

              • pcr3English
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                3 years ago

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