Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026
eli@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As a sysadmin and homelabber, this is extremely interesting to me. Seeing the data and monthly bandwidth alone for Lemmy.zip seems insane to me.
Thanks for the transparency! I’m curious what your month to month costs are for each instance? And do you utilize Hetzner EU servers only?
I’ve been tempted to spin up my own kind of sites, but it’s been hard to gauge bandwidth and data storage requirements based on projected user base estimates.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It’s a little hard to give exact costs for both instances as a whole, because they share infrastructure (i.e. shared email host is one cost across both) but the server itself for Lemmy is just under 50 euros a month, plus image storage at another 15/16 USD per month (with around 2TB of images). The smaller piefed server is more in the region of 25 euros a month, with images more in the 5/10USD range. Then domain on top of that. It’s not “expensive” as such, but it is time-heavy.