@lilianedwards @cjcolclough Almost of all Mastodon servers are hosted in server farms like amazon web service, and sharing energy supplied to there. Hardware condition are same, then software? Centrized service is better.
for example, my server runs only one account. server is 2GHz 1 core CPU with 2GB RAM, 20GB SSD and 1TB datastore (AWS t2.small type).
100 accounts require 2GHz 2 core CPU with 8GB RAM, 100GB SSD and 2TB datastore.
1,000 accounts require 2-4 servers.