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minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·6 days 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-up1·6 days agoWhy is it so expensive to run a website?
minus-squareRaccoonBall@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoScale. Running a website is very cheap, like $5 a month Running a huge website with millions of users is expensive
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoAlso salaries. Like the people who make the content also need to get paid.
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days 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
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.