If I can get to become a witness, the cost of running the bots would definitely be no problem for me would definitely be no problem for me. As of right now, this project is 100% hobby for me and my team, and our motivation was to preserve btsbot. Our project started when alt says that he is shutting down btsbot. Our initial plan was to host that using a in-house sever Apache running at our University Residence hall, and it would cost little or nothing to do. But as we spend more time on the project, we found out it is not as simple as it looks. We have to rewrite several libraries, migrate to cloud due to inadequate computing resources, and then making sure it would work when we release it.

But we are all now every happy that our site is live!