documentation/Running-Mastodon/Resources-needed.md

Resource usage examples

Here are examples of hardware setups of some Mastodon instances for your perusal.

Notes:

• 4x10 threads means 40 threads in total spread across 4 different processes
• An up-to-date number of users cannot be guaranteed in this document
• Listed setups may be underutilizing or overutilizing their hardware

mastodon.social
Users total	150,000+
Users weekly	10,000+
Average RPM	11,000+
Approx. cost/mo	250€
Puma	4x10 threads
Sidekiq	4x50 threads
Streaming API	2x1 threads
Hosting	Hetzner
Special notes	4x servers, each with 8-core i7 CPUs, 32GB DDR3 RAM and SSD disks, arranged in a high-availability setup. Sidekiq on a separate machine. PostgreSQL on two separate machines (hot standby). Redis on two separate machines (one volatile for Rails cache).