I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also depends greatly on which software you run. I also run Akkoma, which is super lightweight. Calckey also doesn't require much. Mastodon is heavier and requires much media cache storage. Lemmy uses more images.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever looked into hosting a Peertube instance? I'm curious about how the costs compare.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I (of course) host one, but not open for signups. It will probably need a lot of CPU for transcoding, and a lot of storage! (Bandwidth too but that's unlimited for my current servers)

[–] unpainted_apple@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity of running instances that big.. How/where can you get unlimited bandwidth? By bandwidth, i assume you refer to "amount of data" transferred. What is the uplink speed.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of services in Europe provide unlimited traffic. That's why most of torrent seed services are located in Europe.