Post by @polarity@social.bitwig.community

@polarity@social.bitwig.community

2026-04-20 12:50 UTC

Any masto.host users here? We have a small community on masto.host, and only a handful of people are regularly active, but we still have almost 36 GB of database usage. Any idea how to reduce this in any way? I’m paying nearly 100 bucks each month just for hosting. #mastodon

Replies (5)

@polarity@social.bitwig.community 2026-04-24 01:17

to give an update: content retention drastically reduced the usage! thanks again @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com 👍

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@wjmaggos@liberal.city 2026-04-20 13:04

@polarity@social.bitwig.community I'm the problem on my small instance on masto.host because I follow a lot of accounts. AFAIK

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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com 2026-04-20 13:05

@polarity@social.bitwig.community yes! I've had that problem. I wrote to Hugo to ask about it, after thinking I had everything tightened up. He said: 1/x

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@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl 2026-04-20 13:06

@polarity@social.bitwig.community Most of the DB usage comes from remote users. You should be able to set a retention policy for removing cached content after a period of time. This might result in worse user experience though

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@danyork@mastodon.social 2026-04-20 13:24

@polarity@social.bitwig.community FYI, the Mastodon team just got some funding that may ultimately help you. One of the things they will be working on is new mechanisms for remote image storage. See: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/ Doesn’t help you *today* but they say they are looking to do this in 2026, so maybe in the months ahead.

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