Full transparency and maintenance costs
Full transparency and maintenance costs
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:
- lemmyrs.org domain: $12/year, bought on Google domain
- lemmyrs.org vultr instance $7/month:
AMD High Performance 1 vCPU, 1024 MB RAM, 25 GB NVMe, 2.00 TB Transfer
- 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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How does one tip/support you?
Currently we don't have anything setup (we're just too tiny right now). I'm talking to other instance admins about best practices around donations/tips.
I'm looking into Open Collective as the platform to accept donations at some point.
Please let us participate/help
I'll certainly make a post detailing that in a day or two. Just have to be careful about regulations etc.
likewise, i would like to see this instance continue running, do make a post if and when you set up something of the sort!