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Comment by OkayPhysicist | original | Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
[−]OkayPhysicist · 2026-07-01 Wed 22:37 UTC · link
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.
[−]colesantiago · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:23 UTC · link
> 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.

[−]gpm · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:33 UTC · link
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.

[−]maccard · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:38 UTC · link
DO Droplets are still $5/mo, as are OVH VPS’es.
[−]someonebaggy · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:45 UTC · link
They're not more expensive than a decade ago, when we were still using them.