This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I’ll provide more details next time.
These costs include hosting for:
- discuss.online (lemmy)
- discuss.online (matrix)
- wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)
- utter.online (mastodon)
- social.photo (pixelfed)
- Sublinks.org (sublinks)
- participating.online(wiki)
Expenses for November
- Hosting: $575.32
- Github: $436.16
- Email: $21.45
- Total: $1,032.93
Income for November
- OpenCollective: $65
- Patreon: $15.11
- Total: $80.11
Year-to-date
- Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63
- Year-to-date total income: $454.77
- Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86
Donations… if you can spare it
GitHub is more expensive than I thought
I’m also surprised and understand now the real reward of self hosting Git
It was expensive because many developers started on sublinks, and I’ve been paying annual subscriptions. Next month it’ll be less (depending on how many join)
Yeah… I wasn’t expecting it to cost so much. It’s near the price of the hosting of all the services combined.
Can you put your cost/loss as a graph on the side bar where the donation buttons are? Wonder if that would help some.
One other thing, i would not show the YTD as a large number like that can actually prevent people from donating as they will feel its hopeless.
Also, still offering free hosting on my home server, if/where it helps.
I thought about that. I’m not trying to discourage people from joining the site though in fear that I’ll shut it off if I don’t make enough to run it.
I can understand that.
Man, I didn’t expect it to be so high, especially the Github part.
It was high for just this month because I bought a ton of annual subscriptions for new developers. It’s going to be zero for a while now.
