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My instance of ~300 users (and uh, far less active ones) is costing me $223/year
I've had users donate about $25 so ~10% community funded and 90% admin funded.
That's fine by me at the current cost. Though if we somehow got a bunch of new users I'd have to cut off signups at some point unless more donations rolled in. I could probably handle a sizeable increase in users first though.
Thank you for being transparent. This helps those of us who don’t know how to spool up our own instance figure out how much to donate. Much appreciated.
Why does it cost that much?
Are you hosting it on a hosting platform somewhere?
$15/mo server rental, plus a few dollars to store backups on a separate service, object storage for media, email, and domain registration. Total $18.64
I have a home server that could easily handle it, but I wouldn't want to put something so public on it.
If you've already got the infrastructure in place for other projects, it can drop costs dramatically. I wouldn't be surprised if someone there was already doing a lot of web hosting and just threw this in their stack. There are also a number of housing companies that will cut great deals for non profits if they're at up right.