Add mastodon installationguide

[JeanetteMueller]

this would be nice to get a self hosted Mastodon instance.

[n0emis]

For that you would need an PostgreSQL Instance... It seem like it is possible: https://wiki.uberspace.de/database:postgresql

[nichtmax]

The wiki is for Uberspace 6. Postgres is not an official feature yet.

[nichtmax]

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md

[SalocinHB]

A Postgres guide is now available https://lab.uberspace.de/guide_postgresql.html

[fooness]

Any news on this?

[luto]

pleroma might be a better choice - needs fewer resources.

[taddydevil]

I have a working pleroma instance on my U7 and written down the installation on my blog. I have no experience with RST so it takes more time to write a guide for the lab. Maybe there is someone who can help me? (preferred in german) Edit: RST is really easy and I'm almost finished with the guide. The next days I upload a first draft.

[mknet]

@taddydevil What do you by „RST“? Thanks

[taddydevil]

@mknet RST = reStructuredText. Markup language used by this lab to write guides ^^

[Brocky]

Hi, I set up mastodon on uberspace a few weeks ago and tried to put everything into a guide over at https://gitlab.com/guide9/mastodon_uberspace if someone wants to bring it over here, feel free.

[paradonym]

@Brocky

https://gitlab.com/guide9/mastodon_uberspace

Can the docker things be done with udocker on an uberspace? Depending on how long assets:precompile takes, I don't see a problem executing it directly on uberspaces. I expect the CPU power of uberspaces is much better, so it takes not as long as if you'd do it on your own machine. Even if shared, if you do like 15 seconds of full load RAM+CPU that's just acceptable for all spaces on a machine.

[thafaker]

It doesn't work, you need to compile it by yourself like in the howto described. Ubersapce shuts down the process because of shared hosting.

[paradonym]

okay then. I think the external parts would be also doable in WSL-environments, which would make an installation guide for most of the people out there.

[jemayer]

Note: After shutting down everything else on my account (i.e. Postgresql, Redis) to preserve as much memory as possible, I was able to compile all assets on Uberspace with the following options:

NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=1024" RAILS_ENV="production" bundle exec rails assets:precompile

[paradonym]

Maybe there are CPU and Memory limit options too? To have like a longer compilation time while still preserving resources?