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minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoLiterally everything on the internet is paid for by advertising. And without it every site you rely upon will either become a subscription service or simply disappear because it is expensive to run a website.
minus-squareMyVeryRealName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoWhy is it so expensive to run a website?
minus-squareRaccoonBall@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoScale. Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
minus-squareAniki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoit depends a lot on the website 1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoAlso salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoServer hosting - is my understanding. It takes a lot of resources to host a site.
Literally everything on the internet is paid for by advertising. And without it every site you rely upon will either become a subscription service or simply disappear because it is expensive to run a website.
Why is it so expensive to run a website?
Scale.
Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month
Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
it depends a lot on the website
1 user on peertube consumes more bandwidth than 100 users on lemmy
Also salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
Because bandwidth isn’t free.
Server hosting - is my understanding. It takes a lot of resources to host a site.