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

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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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鴉河雛@PieFed@pf.korako.me
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Mastodon is used by me alone and costs ¥1590/month.
Misskey is free with OCI for less than 5 people.
PieFed is ¥491/month.

Lemmy is the biggest server in Japan, but I host it at home because it has about 5 MAUs.
(Unfortunately, it is not popular in Japan.)

Media is R2, but it is still within the limits of no billing.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

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鴉河雛@PieFed@pf.korako.me
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I probably post frequently.

File servers and multiple BOTs are also running.

It may be a little expensive, but it is a typical amount of money for a VPS that runs Mastodon somewhat comfortably in Japan.
SAKURA internet VPS

※Sorry, I’m using machine translation.

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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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Your machine translation is working well.

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wesley@yall.theatl.social
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Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn’t get a lot of use though

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