_discoverable: no --- _hidden: no --- title: Mastodon Hosting --- subtitle: Social Media done right --- headline1: Full control --- headline2: Decentralised --- headline3: Social Media --- header_background_color: #316CE6 --- header_text_color: text-light --- nav_classes: navbar-dark --- image:/u/image/cards/kubernetes.jpg --- feature1_title: Self hosted Social Media --- feature1_text: With Mastodon you run your own social media instance. At ungleich we are providing the hosting for you, but if you ever want to host it elsewhere, we provide you with the necessary exports to do so. --- feature2_title: --- feature2_text: The low power Kubernetes hosting not only is very environment friendly, but also very friendly to the budget. By using significantly less resources, you contribute to saving the environment as well as spending money on resources you don't need. When starting small, you always have the possibility to grow your cluster in the future, reacting to the actual needs. --- feature3_title: Dedicated & 100% IPv6 --- feature3_text: Your Kubernetes cluster is running on dedicated hardware. No interruption, no rescheduling, no peer pressure. All resources are completely usable by you. All our Kubernetes cluster are fully ready for the IPv6 world: all nodes are running on an IPv6-only network. For IPv4 reachability we offer you dedicated mapped IPv4 addresses. --- content1_text: ## The ungleich Low Power Kubernetes Hosting offer Our Kubernetes Hosting might be the world's most environment friendly Kubernetes hosting out there. Not only are all components carefully chosen to use as little energy as possible, but additionally the electricity is coming from 100% renewebale energy sources. ## Environment friendly, for real Other providers are dealing with Carbon Certificates, offsetting their energy and claiming to be green. None of that makes sense to us, as the emissions are produced nonetheless, fossil fuels are used or nuclear energy contributes to running your Kubernetes cluster elsewhere. Here at ungleich we start from the beginning and continue to improve our energy usage every day. Not only are we using a 100% renewable energy (locally produced!), but we also research specific hardware to optimise the energy usage required by Kubernetes clusters. ## Each Kubernetes cluster consists of 3 or more k8s nodes. While you can grow it with adding individual nodes, we recommend to grow it in numbers of 3. The reason for this is the underlying storage technology [Ceph](https://ceph.com/) that saves each of your data blocks 3 times. ## Failure resistent As your workload is running on any of the k8s nodes, maintenance work and failovers can be executed without interrupting the services (assuming your workload is deployed accordingly). ## Storage support included Using a built-in dedicated Ceph cluster we provide you with persistent storage that can be accessed using standard Kubernetes PVCs. As every k8s node contains a dedicated SSD, by adding new nodes, your storage cluster automatically grows as well. As the Ceph cluster stores every object 3 times, the 1 TB SSD of each node contributes about 300GiB usable storage. ## Simple Pricing Our pricing is very simple: Each pack of 3 node nodes is 225 CHF/month. This includes rental of the hardware, network traffic, electricity and maintenance of the kubernetes cluster. You don't have to worry about additional storage, network fees or other hidden costs. ## The Mastodon Setup When you want to run mastodon and be part of the fediverse, you need a domain like YOURNAME.social. This is the domain that your users will be known under. --- offer1_title: Mastodon S --- offer1_text: * [One time setup fee 50 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/k8s-setup-3) * DB Storage: 20 GB SSD * Data Storage: 100 GB HDD * Cores: 2 * RAM: 4GB --- offer1_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/low-power-k8s-hosting-3 --- offer2_title: --- offer2_text: * [One time setup fee 300 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/k8s-setup-6/) * 6 nodes with each: 4 Threads, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Storage SSD * Total 24 threads, 48 GB RAM, ca. 2 TB persistent storage * Suitable as small, low power production cluster --- offer2_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/low-power-k8s-hosting-6 --- offer3_title: 9 Node Low Power Kubernetes cluster 675 CHF/month --- offer3_text: * [One time setup fee 450 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/k8s-setup-9/) * 9 nodes with each: 4 Threads, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Storage SSD * Total 36 threads, 72 GB RAM, ca. 3 TB persistent storage * Suitable as a low power production cluster --- offer3_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/low-power-k8s-hosting-9 --- content2_text: ## Tech Details ### The Low Power kubernetes node * CPU: [Intel Pentium CPU J4205](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/95591/intel-pentium-processor-j4205-2m-cache-up-to-2-60-ghz/specifications.html) * RAM: 8 GB DDR3 * OS SSD: 128 GB * Data SSD: USB-C, 1 TB * Connectivity: 1 Gbit/s * OS: Alpine Linux * Networking: IPv6 only ### The ungleich promise We are committed to Open Source and decentralisation. We are very happy to host your Mastodon instance, but in case you want to move on, we will help you to do so and provide you with the following data: * PostgreSQL Mastodon dump * Tar file of the data directory The fee for the export is 50 CHF, as it is a manual process.