Beehaw

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: $523.79

as expected, a full month of running on last month's setup has come in pretty high. luckily, we expect downsizing to begin this month (and we have a pretty good idea of what we're going to do) so this will be our last month of costs at this scale. our initial estimation is that we can halve or better what we're paying now on a monthly basis.

$428.73 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

• $336.00 for hosting the site itself
• $67.20 for backups
• $25.53 for site snapshots

$28.87 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

• $24.07 for hosting Hive
• $4.80 for backups

~$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)

$22.87 for BackBlaze (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)

overall contributions this month: $1,310.90

support still more than covers our expenses, and particularly with our upcoming downsizing we don't believe this will be a problem. breakdown is:

• 100 monthly contributions, totaling $624.95
• 2 yearly contributions, totaling $67.10
• 36 one-time donations, totaling $618.85

between monthly and yearly contributions we are still sustainable overall—but now that the Reddit bump has ebbed most of our savings will come in the form of lowering costs and not "sheer amount of money being thrown our way."

total end of month balance: $4,347.79

expense runway, assuming no further donations

• assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about 8 months and one week of runway

our June 2023 financial update.

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.

because of the unique circumstances of this month i won't report an expected yearly expense like i did last time. that'll probably come next month, when our finances are closer to a useful baseline.

overall expenses this month: $566.98

this is a mighty looking expense, but only $371.98 of it is infrastructure (and even less of that is actually site hosting).

$312.54 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

• $241.47 for hosting the site itself
• $48.29 for backups
• $11.87 for site snapshots
• $10.91 for bandwidth overage (1091.10GB @ $0.01/GB)

$15.28 for Hive, an internal chat platform we're trying to set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean, but distinct enough to break out from overall DO hosting)

• $13.89 for hosting Hive
• $1.39 for backups

~$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)

$5/mo for 1TB of backup storage with BackBlaze (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)

the remaining $195 of this month's expenses have gone to paying @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org for his community icons. we do so at a rate of $5 per icon and he's done 39 of them for us (36 of which are live so far).

overall: we definitely think we're able to downsize infrastructure costs going forward. we're already investigating how best to do that (both in terms of host and overall cost)--there's no ETA for a few reasons, but this month should not be representative of many more subsequent months.

overall contributions this month: $3,870.44

we also have an incredible amount of support, so that really helps things as far as "being able to take time to get everything right". according to OpenCollective, we currently have approximately:

• 97 monthly contributions, totaling $549.58
• 9 yearly contributions, totaling $254.99
• 149 one-time donations, totaling $3,065.87

between monthly and yearly contributions, this means we are still more-or-less breaking even and sustainable overall with this month's costs. obviously, we would like to be substantially moreso though, through either lower costs, more donations, or a combination of both.

total end of month balance: $3,591.33

• yes yes, this is already out of date by a bunch. expect it to be like that, i use UTC for our reports lol.

expense runway, assuming no further donations

• assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about 6 months and 10 days of runway
• assuming just expenses like our infrastructure this month: we have 10 and a half months of runway

if you'd like to make the runway longer (and reward us for even having this site up today after yesterday's complete fiasco), now is a good time to donate :)