What I remember attending a PHP event in ~2009 was one of the old veterans there saying:

Only Microsoft folks say “Sequel Server”, we say “My S Q L”

Can someone explain to me what’s the point in having a lot of small instances of something like Lemmy?

I’m very familiar with Azure, and looking at the docker-compose file and AWS setup, it’s very straightforward to setup a simple instance on Azure container apps. How much it costs you will highly depend on what you want to do with it and how you expect it to be used.

Like, how much traffic are you expecting?