Comment by OkayPhysicist
8 hours ago
We were providing free services decades ago. Hosting a website, or a Minecraft server, or a VOIP server, or IRC, or a forum simply doesn't cost that much. Well within "some guy's hobby budget" type expenses.
8 hours ago
We were providing free services decades ago. Hosting a website, or a Minecraft server, or a VOIP server, or IRC, or a forum simply doesn't cost that much. Well within "some guy's hobby budget" type expenses.
> We were providing free services decades ago.
That was then.
Now VPS providers are significantly increasing prices (Due to memory shortage) making it unaffordable to run servers cheaply.
Servers, and memory, are orders of magnitude cheaper today than they were decades ago... for memory see: https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
Yes there's a slight upwards blip right now, but not even close to cancelling decades of progress in price reduction.