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About 62 USD per month. I post monthly finance updates. All the costs are covered by user donations so far :)
It might be possible to do it cheaper, but I feel I got a good deal for some very high end hardware so this setup should be scalable going forward for a long time.
Well done!
I think that user donations are easier when an instance has a good focus. There are some other instances I can think of where the donation model has been enough to cover things. In addition to feddit.dk and beehaw, an instance I use most of the time, ani.social, is more than covered by donations last I checked. ~~It looks like @hitagi@ani.social even took away the donate link in the sidebar.~~ Never mind, I am just blind. I didn't notice the little Ko-fi badge at the bottom. I was looking for a text link.
I made it a small badge so people wouldn't have to feel obligated to donate. But yes, the entire instance has been community funded already thanks to generous one-time and monthly donations!