I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.
I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.
Bandwidth is not free.
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Bandwidth is not free.
Better?
What?
well, text was small I guess :D
The €5/mo VPS my instance runs on has 20TB bandwidth included.
So while it is not free, it can certainly be very, very inexpensive.
It’s super cheap. A lot of us nerds have very good incomes and can pay for an instance that has like 20 TB of network traffic for less than 10 dollars per month.
It’s our way to try and contribute to the growth of Lemmy and also it’s fun to run our own instance.
Edit: Corrected network bandwidth amount.
What? Did you mean 40Gbps for less than 10 dollars/mo? Or did you mean 40GB of traffic total monthly? Huh?
Sorry it was 20 TB traffic per month for less than 10 dollars per month. Have a look here at options:
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Sure, that’s fair, but it’s also in a region where typical egress costs are cheap anyways. It’ll be harder to find something like this in say, the SEA or OC regions.