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How are the hosting costs for Lemmy.nz? Hopefully its the costs arent growing to much.
The hosting itself is the major cost and this is provided by fediservices.nz, you can donate to them here.
It's not hosted on a commercial VPS but on a machine in a datacenter in Auckland that also hosts other services they provide, so the costs are pretty fixed and mostly relate to hardware (as an example, they've recently added more storage specifically to address storage requirements for Lemmy, which is growing a lot because the image cache is not configurable, and cached thumbnail images are full resolution not resized. The next release should help resolve this by allowing configuration of how long the cache is kept or if it is kept at all). Currently the image cache is around 150GB.
I pay the domain and email sending costs out of pocket but it's pretty minimal.