Question triggered by the other post about instances shutting down due to costs

Summary of the answers:

  • lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month
  • a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month
  • obviously single user instance have higher costs
  • 鴉河雛@PieFed
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    202 months ago

    Mastodon is used by me alone and costs ¥1590/month.
    Misskey is free with OCI for less than 5 people.
    PieFed is ¥491/month.

    Lemmy is the biggest server in Japan, but I host it at home because it has about 5 MAUs.
    (Unfortunately, it is not popular in Japan.)

    Media is R2, but it is still within the limits of no billing.

    • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      82 months ago

      ¥1590/month.

      Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

      Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

      • 鴉河雛@PieFed
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        52 months ago

        I probably post frequently.
        Number of Posts by Month

        File servers and multiple BOTs are also running.

        It may be a little expensive, but it is a typical amount of money for a VPS that runs Mastodon somewhat comfortably in Japan.
        SAKURA internet VPS

        ※Sorry, I’m using machine translation.

        • @ulterno
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          22 months ago

          Your machine translation is working well.

      • @wesley@yall.theatl.social
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        32 months ago

        Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn’t get a lot of use though