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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!

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] BlueSharkEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Oops! I had best fix that :)

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ours costs significantly more than that!

[–] pickles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 5 points 2 years ago

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