Thanks a lot – my provider does offer scaling up support. I’m also looking into swap partitions to artificially expand RAM.

Re-having it all on one instance, do you think Docker/Podman could help containerize everything and prevent one service from taking all others down?

Hey, I’d strongly recommend using njal.la or 1984.is to get a VPS and run your own instance from it. Both services are organisationally designed to fend off DMCA and other takedown notices. Like literally, the Njalla creator has a whole page where he mockingly replies to such requests.

Njalla is based in Sweden, 1984 in Iceland. Both accept anonymous crypto payments, but only 1984 accepts Monero.

More generally, I’d recommend these two services to anyone interested in running an instance catered to “risky” topics like piracy.