@atomicpoet @medium @dotnet @fediversenews

It makes sense.

When I first started playing with Mastodon i did so on a test instance I built in Azure. That test instance, completely de-federated with about 4 users and almost no traffic, ran about $90 a month...

NINETY
DOLLARS
PER
MONTH

I look at how much traffic this instance generates, and even as a largely single-user instance, this would be easily $1,000 a month if I didn't sacrifice VM size/CPU..