Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage
Mastodon appears to be a really good copy machine, and makes cache copies of all kinds of image files, videos, and avatars based on the accounts you follow.
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EC2
A collection of 4 issues
Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server
In the end, I wound up with this nice looking custom dashboard in CloudWatch and a few alarms set up to monitor the metrics I decided were critical.
Notes on running a Mastodon server on AWS
I’ve been pretty Mastodon-curious for a couple weeks now, and after spending some time tinkering with an account I set up back in 2018 on mastodon.social, I decided to explore setting up my own instance. These are my notes.
Calculating Server Capacity for High Availability
Today I was studying for an upcoming AWS Certification and I had a chance to learn a handy method for calculating server capacity for high availability. It’s easy!
First, you need to know how many Availability Zones are available in the region you are working in. And, within that