I’m pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

  • clif
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    871 year ago

    Wow, such transparency… that’s awesome. I wonder (hope) if there will be a massive spike in donations in June.

    /me sets alarm to remind me to donate after work since I keep thinking about it while I’m away.

    • Hypn
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      451 year ago

      Ya, no kidding. This piqued my interest, but I did not click expecting to see an actual cost basis! I have been looking at potentially setting up my own node, but at the same time… Perhaps contributing here, financially as well, could be the best option.

      Still fun to play around with my own stuff though :) Thanks guys!

        • RuudMA
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          171 year ago

          I guess so.

          • LUHG
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            61 year ago

            Iirc, Isn’t the lemmy.world vps around €200 PM?

            Thanks for the instance and good work btw, I know it’s not easy running this stuff.

      • Kichae
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        41 year ago

        I have a small, private Lemmy site, a personal Calckey site, and some blogs that I run off of a VPS that I pay like $13/month for. The server is overkill by an order of magnitude for what I’m using it for. Based on current usage, I could support a few hundred active users without ever taking a dime from anyone, though I’m sure media expenses don’t scale well. That said, there are collective media projects like Jortage out there that have the potentially to significantly reduce media hosting costs for small sites.

        • @V4uban
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          11 year ago

          Jortage looks interesting, thanks for mentioning it

      • AtHeartEngineer
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        21 year ago

        I was also thinking of starting my own node, but if you look at how many instances there are, it’s crazy. I think there should be some balance of consolidation and federation

    • maegul (he/they)
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      171 year ago

      This sort of openness and transparency around finances and the need for donations should become the norm (however awesome it is to see from ruud).

      IMO, with more transparency, the more normal it will seem to donate and the less grating it will be to ask for donations.

    • @s38b35M5
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      61 year ago

      Don’t forget to consider donating to developers of lemmy and/or your mobile app of choice!

    • @sumofchemicals
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      31 year ago

      Just as an aside, when you started your post with “wow, such …” I thought your were talking like a doge meme