jballsBeen a good couple of years
blind3rdeyeIn 10 days my account will be 2 years old.
I’ve enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I’m still not sure I’ll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.
KevnyonYeah, had to move back to this instance because of that. I think that just shows how hard it is and how much funding it actually requires.
TFO WinderThis made me curious, how much funding does it actually require for maintining reasonable amount of users in the long term ?
Since I am not that familiar with AWS and its pricing, I am not sure. Two years ago on this instance, an admin commented on this thread that it cost 180€ per month to run the server. So that’s at least 2160€ per year and that’s not including the labor and there’s only so much volunteer work that anyone is willing to put in, as is evident with the shutdown of lemm.ee, which cited a lack of volunteers as one of the issues that lead to the shut down.
Cost for hosting an instance? - Lemmy.World
Can the admins in lemmyworld capture some data on what the real cost of hosting a Lemmy and what the user capacity is like? I’d consider hosting a federated servers for my friends and I would like to know some tangible parameters on how big I could go. Edit: Thanks everybody! Seems like a standard VPS is the go to. I think I have the wherewithal to do this at some point with my skill set. Will start looking into it.