obligatory preface: we’re 100%-user funded and everything you donate to us specifically goes to the website, or any outside labor we pay to do something for us.
overall expenses this month: $264.50
We downsized this month which has significantly brought down our costs, but it involved quite a few steps so it’s a bit complicated to roll everything up. For simplicity purposes I rolled all the snapshots, backups, and hosting together for old/new droplets by service.
$177.46 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into
- $157.50 for hosting the site itself
- $2.28 for backups
- $17.68 for site snapshots
$29.60 for Hive, an internal chat platform we’ve set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)
- $24.00 for hosting Hive
- $4.80 for backups
- $0.80 for snapshots
~$39.16 for email functionality, which can be further subdivided into
- $35/mo for Mailgun (handles outbound emails, so approval/denial/notifications emails; also lets us not get marked as spam)
- ~$4.16/mo ($50/yr, already paid in full) for Fastmail (handles all inbound emails)
$18.28 for BackBlaze (redundant backup system that’s standalone from Digital Ocean)
overall contributions this month: $1,033.82
support still more than covers our expenses, thank you everyone! breakdown is:
- 114 monthly contributions, totaling $793.82
- 12 one-time donations, totaling $240.00 It seems like the majority of our flow has shifted to monthly contributions and we are still sustainable overall
total end of month balance: $4,701.66
expense runway, assuming no further donations
- assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about 17 months and three weeks of runway
past four months of data, for anyone wondering. a wiki page for this should be forthcoming in the days to come
June July August September Contributions $705.00 $3,870.44 $1,310.90 $1,033.82 Expenses $54.00 $566.98 $523.79 $264.50 Difference +$651.00 +$3,303.46 +$787.11 +$769.32 Balance $726.51 $3,591.33 $4,347.79 $4,701.66 deleted by creator
Every image from every server you federate with gets locally cached. You can’t turn it off and there’s no tools for the image DB. You don’t use the cache when people click links to images on other instances either, it retrieves it from the instance it’s hosted on. It’s a rather serious issue
Thank you for setting the standard for transparency and professionalism with user funding.
Thanks, as always, for the info!
I really appreciate the trancparency. I’m happy to call this my home hive.
The longer I am on Beehaw the more I appreciate it. Proud to be a contributor and grateful for you all 🐝👍
That’s actually really good news. Congrats.
Looks like you may even have some spare beer money left over
Is the linked opencollective system the best / only way to donate? When I first joined and was unsure and hopping around on instances I starting doing patreon mastodon.world; does any of that flow towards beehaw?
OpenCollective is the only way to donate to Beehaw.
Only Lemmy.world / Mastodon.world get the money you give to them, of course. Same goes if you donate to Beehaw.
