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!

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    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.

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      Ours costs significantly more than that!

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        How much is it, if you don’t mind sharing?

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        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.

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          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

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

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