Its not a secret that no ads on lemmy, which makes the process more difficult paying for hosting to keep your instance only, so tell me!
How do you fund your lemmy instance? do you sell products through lemmy? Donations? how you convince people to donate to your instance? Do you sell subscriptions? how?
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 22•2 years ago
The biggest cost really isn’t hosting, because lemmy can easily be run on a VPS for less than $10/month. The biggest cost is moderator time, and they should be paid for if they’re running a good instance.
Right now at least, you can put donation links in your site sidebar, or possibly do funding drives via posts.
- Tmpod ( @tmpod@lemmy.pt ) 8•2 years ago
As I’ve pointed in other comments threads, I run lemmy.pt on a $5/month Vultr VPS (along with some other small stuff). The instance is pretty small still, and as such resource usage is tiny, however, from what I’ve gathered before, such a VPS will do for quite a while!
Regarding funding, I just pay for the server myself. I created a liberapay group/team/org because some people suggested it in our Matrix channel, but it is clearly labelled as something for people that reeeally want to help out, since I can cover the current costs with no issues. - ksynwa ( @ksynwa@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years ago
Are you asking everyone about their lemmy instance? Or asking how lemmy.ml is funded?
Everyone about their lemmy instances! individuals who run lemmy for themselves
- Korba ( @Korba@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 years ago
I want to know both
- seahorse [Ohio] ( @seahorse@midwest.social ) 6•2 years ago
I pay for a VPS on Digital Ocean for $5 per month so I don’t even notice the cost of running one.
Sounds cool, i don`t know if you have plans for the future, and if there is a possibility that your instance will grow!
- seahorse [Ohio] ( @seahorse@midwest.social ) 2•2 years ago
I don’t really have any plans. Would like to grow the instance to maybe 100 users but I don’t know how I’m going to do that.
Just to give you an idea why i need to know this. I’m very interested in launching lemmy instance i love this software, and of course i have no problem even paying $30 for hosting per month. But i’m looking for the future when my instance is growing and will need more computing power, so at least something small to help me cover the costs of the server.
- Tmpod ( @tmpod@lemmy.pt ) 5•2 years ago
A a $5/month VPS from DO/Vultr/Linode/etc (1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 20/25GB SSD) should be good for quite a while! I have one from Vultr and I run multiple things in there, including lemmy.pt, and haven’t ran into any resource issues. The instance is small, but Lemmy doesn’t take up more than 350MB (server, UI, postgres, pict-rs and email relay), and CPU basically never goes beyond 20% (idles at 5/10).
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) 3•2 years ago
- wintermute ( @wintermute@feddit.de ) 9•2 years ago
🇩🇪 i funt ze instentz on join-lemmy.org 🇩🇪
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) 8•2 years ago
I guess wintermute is paying for the virtual machine.
- wintermute ( @wintermute@feddit.de ) 11•2 years ago
I finance the vps from my own funds, there are no other plans.
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) 6•2 years ago
thanks for that btw 🥰
- smorks ( @smorks@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 years ago
I pay for hosting lemmy.ca myself. i just took it over from the previous admin, since they were unable to.
- Kinetix ( @kinetix@lemmy.ca ) 7•2 years ago
To clarify that comment - I handed lemmy.ca over to @smorks@lemmy.ca as I no longer have the time to run, maintain, and moderate it. The cost for me was negligible at this point - I had it sitting on a dedicated server that ran several other things.
- nasp ( @nasp@lemmy.ml ) 0•2 years ago
What traffic did you get there ? Why dedicated, when most use VPS for lemmy ?
- Kinetix ( @kinetix@lemmy.ca ) 0•2 years ago
I already had the dedicated server, so it was easy enough to just virtualhost it.
- QuentinCallaghan ( @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ) 0•2 years ago
I’m hosting sopuli.xyz on Hetzner’s VPS that is 6 €/month so funding the instance is mere pocket change. No need to mine cryptocurrency on users’ computers yet :D