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What is the maximum number of active users on an instance before the financial burden gets too high for the admins? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Pretty straight question.

I see Lemm.ee is now the second most populated instance based on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, with 3634 monthly active users.

I also know that Lemmy devs said that

lemmy.ml is bigger than beehaw, and only costs 80 euros per month for a dedicated server.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/2372503

As lemmy.ml has 3561 monthly active users, should we consider that around 3,5k-4k users is the sweet spot for an instance population, and stop recommending the ones that reached that threshold?

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. The costs of LW seems much higher, but also they have 20k more users

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have they gave the specs used to run it? I’m really curious.

[–] MariaTacobellina@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this comment https://lemmy.world/comment/881738 from a month ago ruud said it's one of these https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Weird that comment link is returning

{"error":"not_logged_in"} And damn that’s a beast for sure.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yikes, but this is a collection of multiple things being ran too. Mastodon/Lemmy/firefish

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed