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How do server upkeep costs look like for fediverse stuff? (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 year ago by mishii9029 to c/fediverse
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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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[–] s38b35M5 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t want to know how large the database of, let’s say Reddit, actually is

Too bad! There's an archive project (from r/DataHoarder) working now to grab what can be grabbed. So far its up to 3.01PB.

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[–] overzeetop 6 points 1 year ago

Thank goodness for people like this. I can point this out to my wife the next time she questions the new hard drives and show her how completely reasonable I am compared to some.

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

But that's including media, right?

[–] s38b35M5 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suspect so. The complete reddit archive from PushShift (text only up to March 2023) is about 2TB.