@mastohost out of personal interest, do you deduplicate media? Jortage does and it seems to make a big difference
@noiob I have automated cache clearing with the tools provided by Mastodon, in the case of database there really is only "tootctl status remove" that clears old posts from unfollowed users, but it really only makes a difference if you use relays.
If someone goes over the database size, I contact them and ask them either to pay for extra space (€1/month per GB) or to upgrade to another plan.
@mastohost ah, that seems like a good solution
@noiob currently I don't, I use OVH object storage. I have been looking into it but haven't found a solution that is cost effective. The CPU/RAM cost of running deduplication after storage, are higher than the cost of storage.
Plus the cost of download transfer is higher than the cost of storage and deduplication doesn't solve that. But yeah is something I am interested in exploring in the future.
@mastohost una (who runs Jortage) wrote some custom code for it but I guess Jortage is a different kinda thing
@noiob never looked at Jortage but thanks for letting me know.
@mastohost also what happens when the database size exceeds the limit? do you prune old remote toots?