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Full transparency and maintenance costs (lemmyrs.org)
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I have noticed some questions around whether lemmyrs.org will continue to be up and running for a long time. I'm hopeful that it does.

For full transparency, here's what I'm currently personally paying for:

  1. lemmyrs.org domain: $12/year, bought on Google domain
  2. lemmyrs.org vultr instance $7/month:
AMD High Performance 1 vCPU, 1024 MB RAM, 25 GB NVMe, 2.00 TB Transfer
  1. Emails are sent using zoho mail free tier. If absolutely necessary an additional $2 for two users (admin and noreply) /month would be added.

Total cost (yearly): $96 + (some tax).

As things stand right now ~$100/year is easily affordable but as the number of users grow, it largely boils down to egress and storage costs. I can personally bear most of it, but if it starts booming then I'll have to rethink about options.

Rest assured, we will be here for the long run!

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[–] marshy_dash970@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just FYI the best deal for a vps I could find was a VPS S at contabo.com For 5.99€ you get a 4vCPU, 8GB RAM machine with 32TB egress traffic, unlimited ingress included. And if I understand it correctly, after 32TB you might just get throttled (I never scratched more than a few hundred MB). Ran a server there for 8 years, never had issues. The management interface is a little old-school... If you'd have to increase your vultr instance type, maybe a migration is also an option.

[–] admin@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

Their pricing and reputation is certainly good. However, it seems like they don't have simple full server snapshot support. I think that's mandatory at this point in case of potentially irrecoverable failures.