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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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[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How much storage per user per time, would you estimate?

[–] hitagi@ani.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right now: 0.3GB per user per month. This number is probably much higher for other instances because I don't keep copies of federated images anymore and I've been compressing images early on.

This doesn't include bandwidth and backups.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 5 points 2 months ago

That's pretty high... Leads me to consider hosting an instance on local hardware. I know that's a whole security mess to deal with, but it night be worthwhile since I have lots of spare storage.