I was also contemplating setting up a new instance for this. I have 100s of gigs of unused ram, CPUs on idle and a 10gbit connection looking for something to do. The only issue I couldn't figure out was the name. I own itjust.works was thinking of something clever subdomain to use with it. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue

I did it! https://sh.itjust.works

Credits go to you for the naming

This is a great one! Might use it

I don't think its so much about the cost as it is about the ability to scale properly. There will be some issues like this at the beginning

I’d like to tell myself that if it got to the point where it started to cost a few million that i would be able to have it pay for itself!

All we need is for Christian the Apollo app developer to port over his app to lemmy

am I the only one that thinks if someone is complaining about $54/month for hosting costs then maybe they shouldn't be running a node? I