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Kaity A (@supakaity)
blahaj.zone**State of the ~~nation~~ instance**
So over the last month our instances have grown substantially and while Ada and I are privileged enough to be able to cover the cost of the small instance we initially envisioned, what it has become is somewhat bigger than that.
The Lemmy side of things is currently at 6,500 users and is hosting a larger meme community which involves a lot of image downloads and a fairly substantial bandwidth cost for serving those downloads.
As we are hosting on AWS, we pay a premium for all the resources we use and the results of this are that the hosting this month has presented us with a surprise.
Our monthly bill has jumped from about $1,000 to about $3,000 a month. (See attached image)
Unfortunately while we can manage this as a once off, I can't afford to continue in this fashion, month after month, so we will have to investigate solutions to help reduce operating costs.
This will involve moving services off AWS to less premium providers, and the downtime involved while these migrations take place and we retune everything.
I apologize in advance for the interruption while we we rejig everything through this process.
Thankyou all for understanding. Please let @ada or myself know of any issues that you notice, as glitches may occur when moving things around.
$[x2 :Blobhaj_Plead_2:] (📎1)
Discussion of the current situation with the Blåhaj instances, and upcoming maintenance.
If you wish, I can try to migrate 196 to a different instance. That would most probably reduce the load considerably
I honestly really like that 196 is here
While your offer clearly comes from a place of compassion, I don’t think that’s what the admins are asking for. They stated elsewhere in the thread that the main point of their post was to inform about the downtime and why.
I think if you wanted to do something to make a difference, maybe you could put the ko-fi link in the sidebar of 196 and ask people to contribute if they’re able.