Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user?

tamlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  $54/504, so around $0.11 per user

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  • tamlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes about 0.10$ per user. But we know only a few pay a bit more. See tge open collective link on the post

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  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are additional costs that aren’t factored in (although they’re not specifically lemmy, and I pay for them myself rather than use donations) such as a very cheap vps for our status.lemmy.zip page and i got a 3 year deal for an external email provider for less than some email providers wanted a month.

    Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server) although lemmy.zips I think was a touch more expensive per month. But it’s got a lot of room for growth.

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    • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)

      This is the route I’d recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you’d be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good to know, thanks!

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