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 | |
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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 |
Why is the balance not going up by an amount equal to the Difference between Contributions and Expenses?
almost certainly because we tend to bundle expenses for multiple months together/as the person running the expense needs it billed (more convenient for all involved), so funds aren’t coming out on the same monthly basis as funds coming in