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Pages

backups: how to backup and restore an instance
character limit: notes on how to modify the maximum length of a toot
dethrone: remove admin privileges
mastodon-sidekiq.service: configuration file
Sidekiq: job manager

How To

Restarting Mastodon

The Mastodon server consists of a standard web server which proxies certain requests through to each of three systemd processes:

mastodon-sidekiq.service
mastodon-streaming.service
mastodon-web.service

In some environments, these may be started, stopped, or restarted with a single command: systemctl <start/stop/restart> mastodon-*.service

Recently, we have found that start often does not work with the * wildcard, and the processes must be started individually:

systemctl start mastodon-sidekiq.service
systemctl start mastodon-streaming.service
systemctl start mastodon-web.service

Links

installing

Mastodon Production Guide: a walk through of the setup process
- Alternative Server Components: using nonstandard services (e.g. Apache instead of nginx)
How to install a Mastodon instance on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean: uses Docker
- Moving Mastodon to Digital Ocean ...but apparently is a really easy way to do it
Mastible: an Ansible playbook to install Mastodon
2018-01-18 (update) Setting up your own Mastodon, with Digital Ocean and Docker

administering

Administration guide
- Tuning Mastodon: adjusting workers/processes and so on
Proxying object storage through nginx: how to keep media URLs consistent even when changing backends

upgrading

Upgrading an instance to a new version:

general

official

tasks

snippet-copy_emojos.rb (via) "A Mastodon Rails console snippet to batch-copy Emoji from another domain."

discussion

Mastodon Meta Discussion Board (using Discourse)

posts

2017-04-12 Scaling Mastodon: What it takes to house 43,000 users by Eugen Rochko