Thanks to everyone who has donated to support saidit!

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[–]Jac0b777 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's awesome! The site maintenance costs still seem to be very low for now. Do you expect higher costs later on with more visitors coming in and more active traffic?

Truth be told, I have no idea how much it costs to maintain such a site. Though I have a site of my own (www.embraceyourexperience.com), the monthly server costs amount to barely anything (probably around 10$ per month), but I have no idea how much a project and servers for something the size of SaidIt cost. To be fair, I also have no estimation of how much Reddit costs - years ago it was supposedly 33K per month, but now that amount must have increased greatly.

How is it possible that SaidIt costs are so low? And are you expecting the cost to increase any time soon?

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We're fortunate in our choice of code- the old reddit source code is highly optimized and built to scale. It's been no easy feat though, and we're still learning how to configure everything and split onto multiple servers over 2 years into this project. They left no instructions for how to run it properly.

I want to raise our costs by $10 or $20 in the near future, to be properly scaled, but hopefully after that our costs only rise predictably with traffic increases. But yeah magnora and I will debate for hours over spending $5/mo, that is the key.

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PS: your site is pretty awesome, nice and relevant writing

[–]Jac0b777 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks! Glad you found it insightful :)

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes our costs will continue to go up as we need more servers, and we will need more servers as we get more traffic. The hope is donations will also scale at the same rate.

Our costs are so low because we have no expenses other than server costs. And we've spent a LOT of time making sure we're running on the cheapest plan that can actually support us. We hit RAM limitations before and had to upgrade. And then we hit CPU limitations and had to upgrade again. But those are our only two forced upgrades since we started. When we started it was like $30/mo though.