Adam Bandt seems to be enjoying playing "wedge" politics right now. It's worked for him in the past, but I agree, this is not one of those times.

Now how am I supposed to entertain the relatives with endless "Who am I?" guessing games?

If Carlton Draught can do it, Fantales surely could.

Web developer and server admin for 17 years now. Seen the rise and fall of many companies and fads. Still wrapping my head around the Fediverse but like you said, seems familiar to how the Internet used to be. Reminds me of Usenet and IRC.

Not sure if OVH has this but I know with Vultr, DO and some other providers, you could pay for Block Storage that you can mount to your VPS instance, and is significantly cheaper than upgrading the VPS instance itself. Might be worth considering for the DB growth if the CPU doesn't become a bottleneck.