this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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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.
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.
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.
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.
I'd certainly be interested to know for the sake of donations. I would gladly donate to keep the fediverse alive.
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
Ayy Lemmy.zip :)
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.