There are additional costs that aren’t factored in (although they’re not specifically lemmy, and I pay for them myself rather than use donations) such as a very cheap vps for our status.lemmy.zip page and i got a 3 year deal for an external email provider for less than some email providers wanted a month.
Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server) although lemmy.zips I think was a touch more expensive per month. But it’s got a lot of room for growth.
Also we now host all our backups offside too, which adds a little on top. I’ll probably cover this in the next server update.
Hey! Have you subscribed to the community? When i look, it appears there are no lemmy.zip subscribers there, and Lemmy won’t share any updates in communities with no subscribers, so I’d say make sure you hit the subscribe button and then check again a little while later.