@codesections @muffinista yeah and its on google docs instead of a plain page somewhere

@wowaname @codesections thanks! tbh it was a good exercise for me as well, it's a good thing to track

@muffinista @codesections google docs wasnt meant to be a compliment

im reluctant to visit it because it requires me to enable javascript for it

@wowaname @codesections fair enough, can't please everyone

@muffinista @codesections ah so why make an effort to

nice attitude

@wowaname just to be clear, you snarked on me and then doubled-down, and never actually asked for the thing you want, but i have the attitude. anyway here you go have a nice day https://gist.github.com/muffinista/4548235b66f11574fcb5f120213ee08a

@muffinista im sorry, i thought being an admin of an instance using decentralised, open-source, flat out better software would mean you thought about your other software usage too, but now i see that you really dont care about it at all

yeah ill try better to be nice to idiots like you

@muffinista this is real transparency, I hope that other instances will follow

@wowaname I agree that Google docs is not really the best option

What about using Ethercalc instead?
https://lite.framacalc.org/botsin.space-costs
(just delete all cells if you want to delete this spreadsheet)

Or https://cryptpad.fr/ although spreadsheets are still beta.

But still being so transparent is so great that I don't mind the Google docs that much.

@xuv the server itself runs on DO. Any uploaded content -- images, videos, etc -- is on AWS, as well as nightly db backups

@ticky thanks very much!!!

@mookie yeah, any uploaded files end up on s3, and also db backups

There is no big secret on my accounts or something but I just can't separate the costs that well. Like a database or host server handles over 200 instances what is the cost of one of them that has 1000 users. I don't know.
It's really hard to put a price on it.
The math I do is averages per instance but it really is not an accurate number as most of the instances are on the cheapest plan. So, it's not comparable.

@codesections @muffinista

@mastohost @muffinista

That makes sense. I kind of figured there wouldn't be any easy way to get at comparable numbers.

@kevingimbel hey! The app itself is running on Digital Ocean

@muffinista oh I see! So only S3 or databases on AWS? Was this a cost consideration? I hope it's okay to ask so many questions :D

@kevingimbel ask away! I'm using S3 to store uploaded assets and backups. Everything else is being handled by the DO server. I put the assets on Amazon mostly so I could worry less about drive failures and running out of space

@muffinista makes sense; So the ~$17 is for file storage?

And the 26$ is DO Server, Load Balancer, Databases et all? Or all in one droplet?

I am honestly impressed with the relative low price. How much CPU/RAM do you use? When I did some dummy calculations I'd always end up around $50+ on AWS.

@kevingimbel yeah it's all running on one droplet. I'm away from my computer so I can't look up the exact specs. It runs pretty well though, and gets a lot of traffic

@muffinista If you don't mind could you please have a look later? Thanks in advance!

Given that your instance has 2.3 million statuses and almost 2k users I feel like I am giving all of this too much thinking :D