# How to start up a mastodon VM

```bash
nixos-rebuild build-vm --flake .#mastodon 
./result/bin/run-nixos-vm
```

Now you can access mastodon at <https://social.local.gd:44443>

- You will have to "accept the security risk".
- It may take a minute for the webpage to come online. Until then you will see 502 Bad Gateway

# TODOs

- [ ] set up a domain name and a DNS service so we can do deploy this to an actual machine
- [ ] set up an email service
- [ ] add logging
  - [ ] errors / logs
  - [ ] performance
- [ ] switch to garage / s3 storage
  - SEE: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/object-storage/
- [ ] decouple the postgres database from this machine
- [ ] test with high use / throughput
- [ ] configure scaling behaviour
  - SEE: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/
- [ ] remove the need for "accept security risk" dialogue if possible

# resources

- Tutorial for setting up better logging: https://krisztianfekete.org/self-hosting-mastodon-on-nixos-a-proof-of-concept/