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minus-squareMyVeryRealName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhy is it so expensive to run a website?
minus-squareRaccoonBall@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoScale. Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
minus-squareAniki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoit depends a lot on the website 1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAlso salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoServer hosting - is my understanding. It takes a lot of resources to host a site.
Why is it so expensive to run a website?
Scale.
Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month
Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
it depends a lot on the website
1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
Also salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
Because bandwidth isn’t free.
Server hosting - is my understanding. It takes a lot of resources to host a site.