@rysiek as ever it’s all about the workload Vs resources. I think we pass the idea that physical hardware is where it’s at from infrastructure perspective. I imagine a scenario where ever home NAS (synology) could mastodon host which services the request of home users. Heck, it might there already…

@rysiek - what i ended up doing was using https://elest.io/ to host micro instance of mastodon on the Hetzner cloud in Germany. That was a darn site easier than a freeium VM on Azure, and manually installing Mastodon (not for the fight hearted - although later I discovered there is an Ansible playbook in yaml I could have run)