Website Operating Costs

Discussions focus on the financial expenses of hosting and maintaining high-traffic websites like Hacker News, including servers, bandwidth, storage, moderation, and potential funding models such as subscriptions or donations.

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dbancajas Nov 15, 2016 View on HN

yeah. it's crazy. it costs money to run the servers itself. We are lucky they haven't made the site subscription based or something.

skj Sep 17, 2018 View on HN

Well, it does cost them money to serve you the site.

sixQuarks Jul 31, 2014 View on HN

why does it cost you so much to run this site?

meowface Jun 6, 2019 View on HN

I'm the grand-parent poster and not the parent, but yeah, my user-content sites don't cost anywhere near that much. Storage is probably the biggest cost, and that still doesn't cost much. I'm not really sure how a site like that could cost that much unless you're getting absurd amounts of traffic, or are using some poorly optimized software; though I also don't know the nature of the site or the content.If my costs were anywhere close to that I think I'd hav

belltaco Sep 30, 2021 View on HN

Servers and bandwidth are not free. People maintaining them need to eat too.

martythemaniak Dec 21, 2009 View on HN

"maybe you shouldn't fund your site with it"Maybe you should read the part that says $0.50 is a typical month. What exactly can one "fund" with 50 cents?

stanley Jan 2, 2009 View on HN

I wonder what their costs are to keep the site running.

TylerLives Dec 3, 2021 View on HN

How much does it cost to run a website like HN?

pavs Jul 15, 2013 View on HN

People paid billion dollars for site that makes $0 money.With that traffic, this is not a bad deal at all.

Timmmmbob Nov 24, 2013 View on HN

I was expecting nobody to pay for hosting! Websites don't run on magic.