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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Blaze@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

On that topic, could limiting the posting of pictures and asking people to use external picture hosts help with that?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 3 months ago

Yes, storage costs matters. I think it's honestly crazy that Lemmy caches images as much as it does. It would be great to be able to just disable it completely, but alas you can't do that without disabling uploads for your own users either (at least I don't know how).

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Disabling uploads might be an option. You probably just need to announce it to the people beforehand, but I see most of the people using image links from other sites, so that might not be an issue.