Just curious how much it would cost to run an instance? Maybe with 1,000-10,000 users? Also are there any hosts that ya’ll recommend? I am most familiar with Digital Ocean but DO may not be the best area to host an instance.
Apologizes if this is the wrong community to post this in. I am not sure where to find any info on pricing estimates
The biggest cost component is going to be storage, I think.
Looking at my instance, it looks like with me subscribed to ~30 or so communities (and a solo-user instance) pictrs+postgres usage is growing by about 350mb a day.
If you had hundreds/thousands of users, I’d expect it to be substantially higher than that, and you’d need to scale to a substantial amount of storage relatively quickly, especially if they’re posting lots of media.