I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

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[–] LilLetDown 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ya, no kidding. This piqued my interest, but I did not click expecting to see an actual cost basis! I have been looking at potentially setting up my own node, but at the same time... Perhaps contributing here, financially as well, could be the best option.

Still fun to play around with my own stuff though :) Thanks guys!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is a Dutchie, that must be why.

[–] ruud 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess so.

[–] LUHG_HANI 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc, Isn't the lemmy.world vps around €200 PM?

Thanks for the instance and good work btw, I know it's not easy running this stuff.

[–] ruud 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah 180, for now it's overkill but I prefer that over scaling up every day.

[–] ikidd 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where can I donate?

Derp, found it: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

[–] AtHeartEngineer 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for giving us a home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a small, private Lemmy site, a personal Calckey site, and some blogs that I run off of a VPS that I pay like $13/month for. The server is overkill by an order of magnitude for what I'm using it for. Based on current usage, I could support a few hundred active users without ever taking a dime from anyone, though I'm sure media expenses don't scale well. That said, there are collective media projects like Jortage out there that have the potentially to significantly reduce media hosting costs for small sites.

[–] V4uban 1 points 1 year ago

Jortage looks interesting, thanks for mentioning it

[–] AtHeartEngineer 2 points 1 year ago

I was also thinking of starting my own node, but if you look at how many instances there are, it's crazy. I think there should be some balance of consolidation and federation