I hope Myrient is getting a massive spike in donations for this last month to match it suddenly going from relative obscurity to being repeatedly covered by major gaming news sites. If it cost $6000 per month to run when almost nobody knew about it, I can only imagine how bad it must be now that everyone and their dog is grabbing what they can before the deadline.
Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection
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Thorry@feddit.org 9 hours ago
I’m not sure, but that seems like way too high costs? What is this site doing exactly that leads to over $6000 per month in costs? And it was stated like that’s the deficit, implying the actual number is higher than that even.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, this seems absurdly too high. My guess is he was hosting it on AWS or one of the other premium cloud providers. Places like Digital Ocean are a fraction of AWS’ cost.
I remember doing a pricing analysis at work, and every three months of AWS time would buy us a completely new server rack. Just three months! AWS was out at that point, leaving colocating, keeping it in-house, or services like Digital Ocean as the remaining reasonable options.