🦣 Mastodon installer (unofficial)

⚠️ This is beyond experimental and may need some manual intervention from you. Let me know about any problems you run into!

Be your own hall monitor and host your own Mastodon server on the fediverse!

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• A domain name (or subdomain) already pointing to your server's IP

Usage

Running the script

If you trust me (which you shouldn't, please don't trust random people on the internet!) this will download and run the installer automatically:

# with curl
curl -fsSL https://github.com/jakejarvis/mastodon-installer/raw/HEAD/install.sh | bash

# alternatively, with wget
wget -q https://github.com/jakejarvis/mastodon-installer/raw/HEAD/install.sh -O- | bash

Or, clone this repository and make sure the installer is executable before running:

git clone https://github.com/jakejarvis/mastodon-installer.git && cd mastodon-installer
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

What's next?

• Review the many config options located in /home/mastodon/live/.env.production
• Harden your server's security using:
  • UFW or iptables
  • Fail2ban
• Configure an email provider:
  • Mailgun and SendGrid have a free tier
  • ...but any regular SMTP server will work.
• Offload media files to Amazon S3. They will eat a ton of disk space, even on a single-user server!
• Tune Sidekiq & Puma for performance and consider using pgBouncer.
  • Official scaling docs
  • Scaling Mastodon down
  • PGTune

Software installed

• Mastodon, of course
• Nginx
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Node + Yarn
• Ruby
• Certbot

License

MIT