My job has been Database Admin for the past 25 years, still is. But nowadays it’s more shifting to infrastructure and automation.

And of course I do some self-hosting… like lemmy.world and mastodon.world and many others…

Thank you @DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world for creating this community!

  • @huojtkeg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    Just Postgres or Postgres + Pics? Could you give me the number for Postgres? I’m thinking in hosting my server but I have concerns abot scalability and costs in the future.

    • RuudOPEnglish
      0•2 years ago
      du -sm *
2181	pictrs
1885	postgres
      • @huojtkeg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•2 years ago

        It seems a lot for little content. My experience tells me that Postgres is not going to scale well, some sort of NoSQL will be necessary.

        • RuudOPEnglish
          0•2 years ago

          Why not? My mastodon DB is 200 GB, works fine.

          • @huojtkeg@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            It depends on many things like the number of tables, the indexes, etc… but Postgres doesn’t work well above 1 TB. Anyway, it will take several years to reach that point. Someone will figure out a solution.

            Thank you for the info. Do you have any link with the specs of your server, bandwidth, cpu/ram usage, statistics…? Anything that could help me to do the maths.