@michellelaverick virtualization means roughly an order of magnitude less disk io performance, and for an io-heavy service like Mastodon... :oof:
tl;dr virtualization and "cloud" are not silver bullets
That said, people are running small Mastodon instances on Raspberry Pis, so. 😸
@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…