We've gotten into lots of small discussions on that thread so I'm breaking some of them off so that those who don't want to be included anymore, can dip out of the discussion.
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Basically, this is the downside of managed hosting, unfortunately. There ARE ways that the managed host could give you cheap options to extend your use, but they won't do that because it'll cut into their profits.🤷♂️
For example, the managed host could make a simple script that only deletes stuff that hasn't been interacted with, along with deleting the cached versions of profile pics and headers. Also it's relatively simple to setup S2 storage which is HELLA cheap.
I pay about $30 a month for my instance, but it requires Linux knowledge, at least the very basics and I control how much storage I wanna keep. I've had up to 1 tb and it costed me $7 a month.
From: [@david](https://boles.xyz/@david)
https://boles.xyz/@david/112349386906617626
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