I managed to bring down ani.social's monthly costs to only ~14 USD when converted (which includes everything except backups). With 165 monthly users, that comes to around ~0.08 USD with a lot of accomodation.

Lemmy is efficient in resources except in storage (database and images) which grows infinitely. Unless you're purging older posts and images, it keeps growing (very slowly).

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How much storage per user per time, would you estimate?

[–] hitagi@ani.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right now: 0.3GB per user per month. This number is probably much higher for other instances because I don't keep copies of federated images anymore and I've been compressing images early on.

This doesn't include bandwidth and backups.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 5 points 2 months ago

That's pretty high... Leads me to consider hosting an instance on local hardware. I know that's a whole security mess to deal with, but it night be worthwhile since I have lots of spare storage.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does the image hosting feature use checksums to reduce the amount of duplicate images?

[–] hitagi@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, I don't think it removes duplicate images.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

sad