@hamish@visionon.tv hi there - you know the other night you said it costs 69p per user to run a server, is that per year? Per day? Forever?
@zoesqwilliams
69 pence ~= 1$ CAD/year, this sounds like a reasonable estimate to cover for hosting costs (VPS) and a domain for a relatively small instance of 100-200 users (prices may vary).
Make it 69p/month, and you got just enough budget to cover for the labour needed to properly maintain the instance and react faster to scale up when there is a sudden surge of users (wages may vary, here too).
[@hamish@visionon.tv (404) => @hamishmacewan : my humble guess]
@zoesqwilliams
A quick search led me to this @Hamishcampbell http://hamishcampbell.com, who seems pretty well-informed and implicated on current affairs of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and the #IndieWeb and #Indymedia and the like. Very interesting person.
I'm quite curious what his insight would be about your question, so I hereby take the freedom to put him in the loop.
(If it's the wrong Hamish Campbell, well, uh... that would make two of them!)
@biguenique @zoesqwilliams
Right one, talked to Zoe at a book launch, how are things going on the #openweb it's interesting times.
@Hamishcampbell @biguenique hi! You're in my feature tomorrow, hope you like it
@zoesqwilliams @biguenique will have a look
@biguenique @hamishmacewan he's hamish Campbell but I wrote his handle down wrong I guess. Thank you tho