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I'm not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost.... So is this place entirely donation based, or what?

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[โ€“] tekeous@apollo.town 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It costs me exactly $4 a month to operate my server. If it grows to the point where I have to ask for donations, I will, but for now I operate it at my own expense because I can afford it.

[โ€“] brandon@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, what are you doing for hosting? I'm interested in hosting an instance, but I'm not sure what kind of hardware to throw at it.

[โ€“] tekeous@apollo.town 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m using a Hetzner cloud box running Ubuntu

[โ€“] monomon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's really cheap! I should check it out now.