Hey @ImdioR,
we already discussed that in an original proposal and $125 was an average we came to through the poll that was ran among the collators. As far as Polkadotters costs go, here is the summary
Collator costs
- bare metal on (currently on Ikoula , Agile XL Pro v2) - $80
- 1 hour - maintaining the collator (usually $50 in crypto for sysadmin salary)
- 25$ - flat fee for stuff like running Grafana, Prometheus, alerts and other services related to the safe operation of a collator
Not currently running a backup since there’s not really any activity on the chain but I plan to do so in the future - so that would be another $50.
So, without a backup, that accounts for $155/month so let’s round it to $200 to count in some actual profit for running the service.