[bitfolk] Re: Hosting Mastodon

Looks like my trusty old HP Microserver has come out in sympathy for Andy’s :) Unfortunately, it’s running my personal Mastodon instance. I’m thinking of hosting it with BitFolk instead of at home. I’m the only user at the moment and I don’t envisage having more than another 2 or 3 users. I’m not connected to any relays as I can’t cope with massive timelines and things are going quite nicely as it is. Does 2GiB RAM sound reasonable as a start? My HP has 8GB and is running other things as well but I rarely see memory usage go above 1.5GB. I’m using AWS (S3 plus Cloudfront) for the media cache (just for fun and because it’s less than £1 a month) so probably OK with 10-15GiB storage. Anybody already doing this, either here or with another provider? I did spin up an Amazon Lightsail instance just to see what life is like elsewhere and wasn’t that impressed - it uses Cloud-Config which I find a pain in the backside. Cheers, Mike