Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost per month to run a Lemmy instance? Not that I'd want to do that myself, I'm just grateful for our admins that keep Lemmy up and running.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago

feddit.uk clocks in at under £40/month. That's hosting, and backups. lemmy.zip is similar.

Plus our time, but we're obviously doing it as a labour of love.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it's better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

It depends. I run an instance with a whole two users and it costs me about $25 a month.

But if I let 200 users join, I would need beefier hardware and a higher bandwidth limit.

However running an instance like Beehaw is probably on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars a month.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd certainly be interested to know for the sake of donations. I would gladly donate to keep the fediverse alive.

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It varies greatly depending on your setup.

Lemmy.world's monthly expenses are around €1,200. Though that includes hosting more services that just Lemmy.
https://blog.mastodon.world/

For comparison, it looks like £30 per month for lemmy.zip:
https://lemmy.zip/post/7766703

And lemmy.ca is around CAD$30 per month:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/39134

At one point Reddthat.com was considering moving to a bigger server that would cost A$150-200 per month:
https://reddthat.com/post/8840079

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Ayy Lemmy.zip :)

[–] rar@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

I'm curious as well. I want to selfhost a personal instance, but CGNAT is getting on the way. I can always pay for VPS, but then the recent shenanigans involving CSAM images potentially being synced from rogue instances scared me.