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minus-squareMyVeryRealName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoWhy is it so expensive to run a website?
minus-squareRaccoonBall@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 days agoScale. Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoAlso salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
minus-squareAniki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoit depends a lot on the website 1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days 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
Also salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
it depends a lot on the website
1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
Server hosting - is my understanding. It takes a lot of resources to host a site.
Because bandwidth isn’t free.