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Gnarly-Repacks is requesting donations for the renewal bill for their site and I know FitGirl sporadically makes requests for donations as well. It makes me curious what range of expenses do sites like these incur and what they are.

I do vaguely recall The Pirate Bay 2013 documentary TPB AFK talking a bit about their revenue but I don't know if they talked much about their expenses.

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[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If it has a lot of users but no downloads probably runs on a $50-$100 dedi server

If it has no users and no downloads probably a $5 VPS

If it has downloads then a lot

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

Having the free time to do the repacking costs more

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

what if the downloads are just torrent files? i mean, they're at least small files