Sorry if this has seen asked - I couldn’t find anything with Google. How do servers of this size pay the costs for hosting? Are they self hosted?

Thanks!

  • Veraticus
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    82 years ago

    My Lemmy instance costs less than $20 per month. I’m happy to fork that amount over because I think it’s a fun hobby.

    • AdaM
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      92 years ago

      Ours costs significantly more than that!

      • Veraticus
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        82 years ago

        Well yours is much bigger I assume! I think we’re only up to about a hundred total users and average concurrency is obviously close to zero requests per second.

        • AdaM
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          112 years ago

          Yeah, that’s what we were like before the reddit migration, but because we had already been up and running for months by that point, we ended up absorbing a lot of users when they happened

          • @[email protected]OP
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            82 years ago

            Are you guys paying for the influx of users out of your pockets? Is there anything we can do as users?

            • AdaM
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              92 years ago

              Well, we have a ko-fi setup, but ultimately, we’re paying for it out of our pockets, yeah. This and blahaj.zone

          • Veraticus
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            52 years ago

            Awesome! Well I’m a big fan of y’all, keep it up 💜

  • AdaM
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    192 years ago

    We host this instance and blahaj.zone out of our own pockets. We have a ko-fi so people can help out as well, but that doesn’t cover all of the costs