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!
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.