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 adminAEnglish
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      3 months ago

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