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

submitted 3 months ago by Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org edited 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

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.

¥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?

鴉河雛@PieFed 3 months ago

I probably post frequently.
Number of Posts by Month

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.

Your machine translation is working well.

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