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Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Question triggered by the other post about instances shutting down due to costs

Summary of the answers:

  • lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month
  • a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month
  • obviously single user instance have higher costs
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[–] troed@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@seb@ioc.exchange publishes the costs for ioc.exchange:

Servers are hosted at Linode and hosting costs are around $300/month. Media files are hosted in AWS S3 and the costs are around $50/month. So in total our running costs are about $350/month.

Unfortunately the donations still don't cover it.

This is your regular reminder that our hosting costs are roughly $350 per month. In the last 30 days you all have contributed $216. Thank you very much for everyone who has contributed - You are awesome!

edit: User numbers from fedidb: 1,737 MAU, 26,315 total.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

5 bucks per month per active user sounds excessively expensive, no?

[–] troed@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think you got the numbers crossed there :D

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

Shit. I'm gonna turn my alarm off and get some proper sleep the next days...