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Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, I feel like eviltoast.org is on the expensive side of things now. There's less than 20 mau, but I pay close to $400/mo. Not including object storage or hardware running at home.

Realistically this is hosted on hardware I was already renting for other reasons, so actual cost is zero for lemmy itself. I could probably migrate to a small vm for $20/mo and only lose redundancy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s less than 20 mau, but I pay close to $400/mo.

Wait, what?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's infra that was already hosting other things. Lemmy got added to it because there were spare resources in the cluster.