# Forum maintenance cost

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-maintenance-cost/253930
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-maintenance-cost/253930 "2023-02-03T09:48:50Z")
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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-maintenance-cost/253930/53 "2026-01-06T11:48:53Z")

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ISPs usually don’t care, as for electricity it is highly region dependent, for example, here in India it makes a lot of sense to host our own servers if we have solar rooftops, because our generation supersedes the consumption so even after hosting ~5 N100 mini PCs, It still costs less than what I would pay for roughly equivalent compute in the cloud.

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