Sorry if this has seen asked - I couldn’t find anything with Google. How do servers of this size pay the costs for hosting? Are they self hosted?
Thanks!
Sorry if this has seen asked - I couldn’t find anything with Google. How do servers of this size pay the costs for hosting? Are they self hosted?
Thanks!
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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 3y
We host this instance and blahaj.zone out of our own pockets. We have a ko-fi so people can help out as well, but that doesn't cover all of the costs
BlueSharkEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 3y
For those looking, https://ko-fi.com/blahajzone is in the server description.
There's also a mispaste of that under the "Empathy" header of that description.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 3y
Oops! I had best fix that :)
Veraticus@lib.lgbt · 8 pts · 3y
My Lemmy instance costs less than $20 per month. I'm happy to fork that amount over because I think it's a fun hobby.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 3y
Ours costs significantly more than that!
Veraticus@lib.lgbt · 8 pts · 3y
Well yours is much bigger I assume! I think we’re only up to about a hundred total users and average concurrency is obviously close to zero requests per second.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 3y
Yeah, that's what we were like before the reddit migration, but because we had already been up and running for months by that point, we ended up absorbing a lot of users when they happened
lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
Are you guys paying for the influx of users out of your pockets? Is there anything we can do as users?
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 3y
Well, we have a ko-fi setup, but ultimately, we're paying for it out of our pockets, yeah. This and blahaj.zone
JK_Mooney@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Very new to Lemmy, what's a ko-fi setup?
claymore@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y
ko-fi is just a site where people can give money to a person or entity
Veraticus@lib.lgbt · 5 pts · 3y
Awesome! Well I'm a big fan of y'all, keep it up 💜
pickles@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
How much is it, if you don't mind sharing?
lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y