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!

  • 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.