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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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. you can donate here.

overall expenses this month: $230.81

$134.66 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

  • $108.00 for hosting the site itself
  • $21.60 for backups
  • $5.06 for site snapshots

$27.81 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

  • $23.14 for hosting Hive
  • $4.63 for backups
  • $0.04 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)

$29.18 for BackBlaze (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)

overall contributions this month: $691.85

support still more than covers our expenses; interestingly, our donation composition is now almost exclusively monthly donations.

  • 108 monthly contributions, totaling $668.33
  • 2 one-time donations, totaling $23.52

total end of month balance: $5,198.47

expense runway, assuming no further donations

  • assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about one year and seven months of runway.

finance history

June July August September October
Contributions $705.00 $3,870.44 $1,310.90 $1,033.82 $691.85
Expenses $54.00 $566.98 $523.79 $264.50 $230.81
Difference +$651.00 +$3,303.46 +$787.11 +$769.32 +$461.04
Balance $726.51 $3,591.33 $4,347.79 $4,701.66 $5,198.47
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[-] What_the_vent_meant@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I must be crazy but I haven’t seen a thread about that. Could you please add (or send me) a link to it?

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