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Fediverse @lemmy.world Blaze (he/him) @feddit.org 2mo ago

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

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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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?
  
  I probably post frequently.
  
  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

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