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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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.
Well, it does cost them money to serve you the site.
why does it cost you so much to run this site?
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
Servers and bandwidth are not free. People maintaining them need to eat too.
"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?
I wonder what their costs are to keep the site running.
How much does it cost to run a website like HN?
People paid billion dollars for site that makes $0 money.With that traffic, this is not a bad deal at all.
I was expecting nobody to pay for hosting! Websites don't run on magic.