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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[–] ruud 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also depends greatly on which software you run. I also run Akkoma, which is super lightweight. Calckey also doesn't require much. Mastodon is heavier and requires much media cache storage. Lemmy uses more images.

[–] grue 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever looked into hosting a Peertube instance? I'm curious about how the costs compare.

[–] ruud 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I (of course) host one, but not open for signups. It will probably need a lot of CPU for transcoding, and a lot of storage! (Bandwidth too but that's unlimited for my current servers)

[–] unpainted_apple 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity of running instances that big.. How/where can you get unlimited bandwidth? By bandwidth, i assume you refer to "amount of data" transferred. What is the uplink speed.

[–] Aux 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of services in Europe provide unlimited traffic. That's why most of torrent seed services are located in Europe.

[–] unpainted_apple 2 points 1 year ago

Im aware of this. Maybe my question was slightly unclear. What uplink speed is necessary to run an instance with 30k users?

[–] grue 2 points 1 year ago

Any ballpark guesses as to numbers (relative to Mastodon or Lemmy)? Are we talking, say, twice as expensive, or two orders of magnitude more expensive?