@BeAware Thank you! I already run some Discourse instances on Digital Ocean, so I’m not that shy of it, but the required disk space alone can push me into expenses I’m not willing to pay fairly fast.
@zoul oh boy, you can connect it to backblaze and I have a good link by @ricard about managing the content to limit your disk usage. For reference, I'm using 300 gb in backblaze right now and it costs me $2.50 a month.
Here's the article about preserving disk space once you have CLI access (MastoHost doesn't allow CLI access or backblaze connection because they're overcharging for those commodities)