Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? - eviltoast

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
  • eviltoast adminA
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    11 days ago

    Oh man, I feel like eviltoast.org is on the expensive side of things now. There’s less than 20 mau, but I pay close to $400/mo. Not including object storage or hardware running at home.

    Realistically this is hosted on hardware I was already renting for other reasons, so actual cost is zero for lemmy itself. I could probably migrate to a small vm for $20/mo and only lose redundancy.

    • Blaze@feddit.orgOP
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      11 days ago

      There’s less than 20 mau, but I pay close to $400/mo.

      Wait, what?

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        10 days ago

        It’s infra that was already hosting other things. Lemmy got added to it because there were spare resources in the cluster.