Just curious how much it would cost to run an instance? Maybe with 1,000-10,000 users? Also are there any hosts that ya’ll recommend? I am most familiar with Digital Ocean but DO may not be the best area to host an instance.
Apologizes if this is the wrong community to post this in. I am not sure where to find any info on pricing estimates
I don’t have an answer but I’m also quite interested to find out what kind of server specs are we talking to get off the ground? Would love to hear from someone that has recently started their own…
I have no idea about minimum requirements to get off the ground, but lemmy.ml mods recently made this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1234235 in wich they state they use a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram.
One of the devs comments in that thread specifically notes the price. It’s 60 euros a month for the dedicated server this is running on. https://lemmy.ml/comment/577040
Server pricing isn’t linear though so smaller instances wouldn’t necessarily be proportionally smaller in price.
The admin of sopuli.xyz said in his FAQ that donations are unnecessary atm, as his expenses total about 12 euros a month.
Sopuli has a bit under 2000 accounts, I think, and is running on a Hetzner VPS located in Finland.
I think it’s also important to think about how this doesn’t account for the admin’s time (I know not the point of the question). Since yes donations aren’t necessary for the server, but I want to support the admins who are putting in the work to improve and move Lemmy forward. That’s why I donated at least.
