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Since other Masto admins have been posting what it costs to run their instance I decided to do the same for awoospace.
It's important to note that since we only federate with a hand-picked list of instances (which is available on our about page), we get less traffic than the average instance with our user numbers. Also we might have a lot of registered accounts but only around 100 are active regularly.
It comes down to
- ~6€ a month for the server (a ssdnodes KVM (4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM, 320GB disk [way too much]), they basically always have a sale going on if you're willing to pay for three years in advance, the usually throw in free daily backups), we did a big upgrade during the last big influx because the old one wasn't enough
- 5$ a month for around 500 GB S3-compatible media storage on Wasabi (they've been unstable in the past but it's been years since we've had issues)
- <20$ a year for the domain name
oh btw if you wanna throw someone money because you like this Mastodon thing, the @Tusky team has a Patreon and they do great work