nolanlawson

Scaling Mastodon down

There is already a guide on scaling your Mastodon server up. This is a short guide on scaling your Mastodon server down.

I.e., maybe you want to run a small instance of <100 active users, and you want to keep your cloud costs reasonable. So you might be running everything on a single machine, with limited memory and CPU. (In my case, I was using a t3.medium instance with 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM.) How do you do this?

Note that I'm not a Ruby or Sidekiq expert, and most of this stuff I figured out through trial and error.

GreenFootballs

/**
 * Revised by Charles Johnson - https://github.com/GreenFootballs
 *
 * Runs automatically at window.onload(), searches document for iframes with a class of "mastodon-embed"
 * and resizes them to fit the content, using window.postMessage() to get the content height from the
 * embedded page.
 * 
 * Adds an object named "_mastodonTools" to the window element, with an "embed" method.
 * 
 * To resize dynamically added Mastodon iframes, call "_mastodonTools.embed(container, callback)"

lmorchard

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