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Hosting Hachyderm (Ship It! #130)
Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.
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Featuring:
- Preston Doster – Mastodon, GitHub
- Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
Interview
One correction about the cost to run Hachyderm. Preston said it’s about $600/mo and after the interview emailed me to let me know it’s closer to $1000/mo
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!