

ohhh giggles!@skymtf it was just a silly joke, playing on the deluge of new users straining fedi quite a bit lately.
That said, we *should* be hosting our tiny personal fedi instances at home. The more distributed fedi becomes, the more resilient it ends up being.
@skymtf @rysiek i have quite a beefy computer that i use as server (which I'd pay like 100€+ if it was on a VPS), connection is not perfect (asymmetric 500/100Mbps, freakin ISP doesn't have symetrical plans even though it's fiber GPON....) but works for most servers.
I have mastodon on a VPS just because, but I'll likely move it to my home server soon as the VPS is running out of processing power and RAM
@michellelaverick virtualization means roughly an order of magnitude less disk io performance, and for an io-heavy service like Mastodon...
tl;dr virtualization and "cloud" are not silver bullets
That said, people are running small Mastodon instances on Raspberry Pis, so. 😸