Last month I paid 1300 NOK to keep oslo.town online. And that's after user donations.  

You can check out all the details here:

🔗 https://coxy.co/oslo-town-february-2026/

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oslo.town (February 2026)

<p>I’m a little slow on this update, but better late than never so they say! Here’s the February rundown for everyone’s favourite Mastodon instance serving the people of Oslo, Norway:...</p>

Matt Vestengen-Cox
@matt @themayor wouldn’t it be like.. way cheaper to host it at something like a hetzner auction server at this point?
@marcus I think you're presuming I have the technical know-how to setup, manage, backup and upgrade a servers software to a reliable level.
@matt I'm guessing that was a bad assumption on my end. 🙂