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im running a bare bones instance, just starting to get some users. i am using one of the higher cost providers in AWS, and my total costs are ~$1.02/day. i could probably get to about 25 users before i have to double these costs in the form of the next tier of hosting, but then i could probably scale to 250-500 users. for ~2$/day. i can imagine donations allowing me to scale to many thousands of users before the leecher/donation ratio tips.
its not that expensive, but then, i dont have a ton of leechers either.
attracting users? no idea. i hate social media. im here for the sysadminin'
what specs are you getting for 1 buck a day?
for the vm, its the ec2 T3a plus associated services (4Gb ram, burst processing)
seems pretty overpriced imo
yes its at least double the cost of less mature providers
are they doing anything special that justifies that price?
its amazon, they have an extremely mature ecosystem. so everything is stupid easy to setup and run (interoperate).
and dashboards are sooo pretty
Why call your users leechers?