We have made attempts to contact the Rammy admins, which other instance admins have tried as well, to determine their current status. Due to their admins being absent and their unmoderated content growing in numbers, we will defederate from Rammy. If and when this situation changes, we will be happy to reevaluate our approach. It should be noted that any instances that have abandoned admin teams will be defederated.

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[–] antik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think they mean it's just running on someone's homelab. So there is no real monthly billing.

Edit: so the IP belongs to contabo.com hosting. They provide cheap vps instances with 4 cores, 8gb ram, 50gb nvme and 32tb of monthly traffic which is plenty to start hosting a Lemmy instance. Could be they paid for a year and went on holiday or something like that. Who knows

[–] teejay@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's... not how bills work. Someone has to pay for the electricity, internet traffic / connectivity, and rent / mortgage for the server to exist somewhere. That's true whether it's self-hosted in someone's basement or in a data center somewhere.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 4 points 1 year ago

You technically aren't wrong.

But, in my case, I already had all of the capacity paid for regardless. I'd say, lemmy runs me around 20-30w of load total.

30w * 24 hours * 30 days = 21,600Wh / 1,000 = 21Kwh * 0.08c = 1.68$ per month.

In reality, the power load is quite a bit less, and my calculations don't account for the solar panels on my roof.

Given, I have around 140-160T of total storage capacity, its not really worth putting a price on the small amount used by lemmy. My internet is paid regardless, and lemmy usage is typically pretty low (typically measured in Kb/s). So, not really worth putting a price here, as it averages less then 1% of my total connection.

If, I wanted to put a price tag on it, my labor to actually support and maintain it, would be where all of the money went to.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Contabo's sign up page lets you pay for up to 12 months at a time, in advance. It's quite possible they paid for a year, set it up, and then forgot about it or haven't been able to administer it for other reasons.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As if everyone running a home server has proper monitoring. You think running an instance is going to make a noticeable difference on your electric bill? Mortgage for the server?