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Paying for servers

Sorry if this has seen asked - I couldn’t find anything with Google. How do servers of this size pay the costs for hosting? Are they self hosted?

Thanks!

Ada - 2.4yr

We host this instance and blahaj.zone out of our own pockets. We have a ko-fi so people can help out as well, but that doesn't cover all of the costs

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BlueSharkEnjoyer - 2.4yr

For those looking, https://ko-fi.com/blahajzone is in the server description.

There's also a mispaste of that under the "Empathy" header of that description.

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Ada - 2.4yr

Oops! I had best fix that :)

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Veraticus - 2.4yr

My Lemmy instance costs less than $20 per month. I'm happy to fork that amount over because I think it's a fun hobby.

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Ada - 2.4yr

Ours costs significantly more than that!

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Veraticus - 2.4yr

Well yours is much bigger I assume! I think we’re only up to about a hundred total users and average concurrency is obviously close to zero requests per second.

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Ada - 2.4yr

Yeah, that's what we were like before the reddit migration, but because we had already been up and running for months by that point, we ended up absorbing a lot of users when they happened

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lamprivate - 2.4yr

Are you guys paying for the influx of users out of your pockets? Is there anything we can do as users?

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Ada - 2.4yr

Well, we have a ko-fi setup, but ultimately, we're paying for it out of our pockets, yeah. This and blahaj.zone

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JK_Mooney - 2.4yr

Very new to Lemmy, what's a ko-fi setup?

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claymore - 2.4yr

ko-fi is just a site where people can give money to a person or entity

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Veraticus - 2.4yr

Awesome! Well I'm a big fan of y'all, keep it up 💜

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pickles - 2.4yr

How much is it, if you don't mind sharing?

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