The default Lemmy deployment docs don't have a lot of breathing room. It would be reasonable to break off the postgres server Lemmy uses to a separate server,

The default Lemmy deployment docs don't have a lot of breathing room. It would be reasonable to break off the postgres server Lemmy uses to a separate server, but at the moment there is only an Ansible playbook or a docker compose file, both of which assume a single server. There's only so much time in the day and it's much easier to size up than reimplement the install process.