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Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Question triggered by the other post about instances shutting down due to costs

Summary of the answers:

lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month
a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month
obviously single user instance have higher costs

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I managed to bring down ani.social's monthly costs to only ~14 USD when converted (which includes everything except backups). With 165 monthly users, that comes to around ~0.08 USD with a lot of accomodation.

Lemmy is efficient in resources except in storage (database and images) which grows infinitely. Unless you're purging older posts and images, it keeps growing (very slowly).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does the image hosting feature use checksums to reduce the amount of duplicate images?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I don't think it removes duplicate images.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

sad

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