So in the early days (waaaay back in June 2023) it was run on a commercial VPS (a $2/month one), but I got an offer from @[email protected] to have it hosted on the hardware being used by fediservices.nz, which hosts a bunch of federated sites. They have a server set up in an Auckland data centre, with full access to install the hardware they like. It runs proxmox and allocates us a virtualised server to run lemmy.nz.

We have cloudflare sitting in front, and cloudflare reports 15GB total data served over the last 24 hours. 27k unique visitors made 930k requests. There’s some weird stuff though that makes it hard to judge exactly how many people. For example, the join-lemmy.org/instances page hotlinks to the instance logos, including ours. So if they get a million hits, that loads our logo a million times, so registers on cloudflare as a million requests. And people on other instances looking at news articles we posted will have the article image loaded from our cache which will count as a visit/request. Stuff like that makes it hard to know who is directly accessing lemmy.nz.

Previously we have had much higher bandwidth usage, but I think this was largely from the instances page being loaded a lot from lots of reddit users looking for servers.