Myrient is a popular video game preservation service that has over 390 terabytes of classics

Increasingly popular, according to the owner, which was part of the problem. Myrient was costing them $6,000 a month to run after donations.

Which is why people don’t start these things out of pocket. At best it’s questionably legal to distribute ROMs… but it’s really expensive to pay for the traffic.

They blame rising component prices as well, but the main issue was traffic costs.