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[โ€“] ipha 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beehaw was running on a 96โ‚ฌ/month VPS and temporarly upped it to 336$/month to handle the reddit implosion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ooh, that's less than 5c/user/month, this can totally work without overloading with ads.

[โ€“] Freesoftwareenjoyer 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah and here is how lemmy.world's owner funds his Lemmy and Mastodon instances:

https://www.patreon.com/mastodonworld

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

He said lemmy.world could handle 1 million users and mastodon.world at some point had over 100k active users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hell, that is like one impression per user per month on Adsense. You could put a single unobtrusive text ad on top and probably pay for your server