Hi. As you may know, I’ve opened the instance about 12 days ago. Right now, the instance is ranked 6th out of hundreds of instances.

We’re now using 4 vCPU and 16GB RAM server for 38€ which is very cheap (Not that cheap anymore. We’re using dedicated 16 CPU, 48GB RAM server for 160€). But we need donations to continue uploading media or even to increase the limit and move to a better server against instant load. Also we transfered 5TB of media only in 12 days 🤷‍♂️ Thanks to Cloudflare, this didn’t cause much trouble to us.

If you want to donate, here’s donation platforms we use:
Note: I removed old crypto payment methods and Patreon kicked us. We got $182 with old crypto payment methods and $80 from Patreon.
    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s 9.15 on Cloudflare right now. Costly thing in our infrastructure is going to be storage and server specifications. I’ll migrate to S3 as soon as Lemmy 0.18.1 releases.

      • Almighty5617@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Is S3 more cost efficient? I have had experience with it being much more reliable and durable, but the cost in the long run could be higher than having it next to the service

        • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          20TB of file is going to cost us 300$ in the future. It is close to free IMO :) Also some providers doesn’t charge eggress fees and/or API usage.

          Edit: For reference, Hetzner bills 44€ for 1TB data volume.

          • Mechanize@feddit.itEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Maybe I’m misreading it, but if you are mainly looking for better pricings, isn’t something like Backblaze B2 even cheaper?

            I never used it, but when I was searching for a media host I remember it was the overall better one, pricing wise, being in the Bandwidth Alliance and all that.

            But I seriously checked them a long time ago so it could be different, now.

            • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
              9·
              1 year ago

              Yeah it was my first choice too. But the thing is, egress fees are free if you use it through Cloudflare. Pictrs (Lemmy’s media service) directly communicates with S3 service. So it will be cheaper per TB but I have to pay for downloads.

              Also found Wasabi. It costs 6$ per TB with no API or download fees. I’ve researched, it seems to only allow as much bandwidth as you store.

              Amazon and Google’s prices are known.

              I will use Cloudflare R2 as the last option. It bills $15 per TB. There is no extra fee but API.

          • maxFapper@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Doesn’t it Amazon charge for data transfer? I.e the more requests you’ll get, the more they’ll bill?