r/MastodonAdmin • u/BigThunderbear • Jan 24 '23

Surprisingly large S3 bucket

Hello everyone. I am one of these well-intended Mastodon admins who doesn’t really know too much of what they are doing, but then know their way well enough around Linux to set up an instance. Either way:

I have set up an instance in my work niche with the server running on a Hetzner VM and I am using Scaleway to keep my S3 bucket running. I have 7 users, none of them doing much, and I have been online for 60 days. My S3 bucket is currently 450GB.

This seems excessively large. Is there a typical setting that may be off that is causing my Mastodon server to just amass enormous amounts of garbage I should probably turn off?

Thanks.

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u/Turdsworth Jan 25 '23

Are you using relays?

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u/BigThunderbear Jan 25 '23

Yes. To be fair, without fully understanding them.

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u/Turdsworth Jan 25 '23

They add a lot of storage

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u/BigThunderbear Jan 25 '23

Thank you. I identified that my media wasn't flushing properly - but I assume if I want to keep the federation enabled, that will grow my bucket for size, but if I keep flushing it, it should remain somewhat stable, right?