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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 |
Hey alyaza, I'm glad to see you back and hopefully doing well. Wishing you and the rest of the admin team all the best running this community.
Nicely laid out thanks Alyaza!
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
Cash basis vs Accrual basis bookkeeping strikes again!
Thank you for setting the standard for transparency and professionalism with user funding.
That's a pretty healthy difference between donation income and expenditures. You love to see it.
The longer I am on Beehaw the more I appreciate it. Proud to be a contributor and grateful for you all 🐝👍
I really appreciate the trancparency. I'm happy to call this my home hive.
Thanks, as always, for the info!
Just wanted to say thanks for the transparency, and thanks to the mod team for making Beehaw such a great community!
awesome. you are really creating something special with your instance and it seems to pay off. how are you paying only $2.28 on digital ocean for backups? did you stop using digital ocean backups?
I think we utilized snapshots to downsize so there were less backups this month
This is sort of correct. Doing file level backups with restic to B2 for needed data files. The system can always bee reinstalled as needed, its the data on it that we need to save; not the whole thing. So 1 snapshot this month for last month of the whole system, a 'known-working-good'. Then did a bunch of updates, configurations, and restorations. Didn't need to roll back, so removed the snapshot.
Backups are still working just not doing it on DigitalOcean side.
In addition, the costs will be lower next month for DO as well. They charge you for the time a VPS is on. This month, the beefy expensive server was on for a 'few weeks' even though it wasn't serving 'beehaw.org'. Just needed to sync some things and files between that one and the new, smaller tier DO. Still charged for the time that expensive one was on. Next month (This one? Sep) won't have that beefy server on it at all. So; should see lower cost.
Thanks for the response I was never in doubt about your backup process. The digital ocean pricing for the backups seemed low to me compared what digital ocean suggest what backups would cost for me.
Thanks for everything you and the team do! And thanks to all users for contributing to this instance, and helping to make it as great as it is!
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.
It’s so great and refreshing to have this level of transparency!
It looks like there's been an increase in donations, this is great! :) Thanks again for the updates.
That's actually really good news. Congrats.
Looks like you may even have some spare beer money left over