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@lib.lgbtEnglish
    8·
    1 year 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.

    • AdaMAEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Ours costs significantly more than that!

      • picklesEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

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

      • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
        8·
        1 year 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.

        • AdaMAEnglish
          11·
          1 year 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

          • lamprivateOPEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

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

            • AdaMAEnglish
              9·
              1 year ago

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