Gnarly-Repacks is requesting donations for the renewal bill for their site and I know FitGirl sporadically makes requests for donations as well. It makes me curious what range of expenses do sites like these incur and what they are.

I do vaguely recall The Pirate Bay 2013 documentary TPB AFK talking a bit about their revenue but I don't know if they talked much about their expenses.

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[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it has a lot of users but no downloads probably runs on a $50-$100 dedi server

If it has no users and no downloads probably a $5 VPS

If it has downloads then a lot

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Having the free time to do the repacking costs more

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

what if the downloads are just torrent files? i mean, they're at least small files

[–] nix@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

One thing to consider is that it's not just hosting a site, it's all the work they do to do the DRM removal and the repack. That takes time, which might be time they could be using to earn money. So getting some money from their work can help incentivize it.

Hard to say what that actually boils down to for each person, if they're not releasing any expenses info (site costs, time spent per project, etc). If you're thinking about donating, I'd think of it more as a "thank you" gift for their work than anything else, and give an amount you wouldn't miss.