Sorry this is a little late, Iāve been busy with real life this week.
Iām stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but theyāre all rounded/approximate to the dollar. Iām not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.
Income
$267 AUD thanks to 25 generous donors, it is very much appreciated.
Expenses
$34 OVH server fees. Lower than normal, as OVH seem to switch services to calendar based rather than anniversary based from the second month. The July billing period covered 8 July - 31 July, August will be 1-31.
$40 Cloudflare. Due to huge volumes of egress traffic from Cloudflare in early July, I opted to pay for a month of premium in order to investigate. The cause was found and remediated. Iāve since dropped back to the free plan.
Balance
$193 surplus from July (Income - Expenses)
$293 carried forward from June
= $486 current balance
Future
Wasabiās trial period expired on the 8th of July, so the first bill is due this month.
Domain registration, Iāll be looking to extend by another year and keep it so that we always have at least 12 months paid up.
Server storage, I expect weāll need to upgrade for additional storage this month. With this upgrade Iāll consider pre-paying/committing to the server for a longer period of time. This provides both a discount, and certainty to everyone that the money is put to good use.
THANK YOU
ā¦again, to our generous donors. The offer of an @aussie.zone email address redirect is still open to any donors.
As always, if you have any questions please ask.
Not a stupid question at all. If donating will cause you any issues, please donāt š.
Iād like to get to a point where I can prepay for the server for a year, as this will lead to a lower overall price. However until server resource requirements stabilize this isnāt possible.
None of the donations will be spent on me or for my personal enrichment. If I ever close aussie.zone down Iād be looking for suggestions on where to donate any surplus funds.
As it stands weāre in a good position and Iām not worried at all. If things do ever become a worry for me, Iāll keep everyone informed.
Haha - the money isnāt a concern for me, my historic stupidity from the better halfās point of view is a different story.
Non-technical me has been following along with the nerd updates and I see weāre still figuring out plans and tech (last time I looked anyway). Have you done any preliminary estimates on what a year of this bad boy might cost? Not sure if you should just limit that to server but up to you of courseā¦
Like, is 200 a lot? 500? A grand?
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Sorry, and yeah hard to predict absolutely. But no growth vs current trend + buffer maybeā¦ I donāt know, might be way too early even to ballpark?
Upon further reflection, if people see a kitty they may not donate which creates an issue down the track for you maybeā¦ thereās probably some research somewhere on this stuff hahaā¦
I guess the less rocking of the boat the better. Iāll keep watching the balance and if something fails or you need injection, please post and if thereās any reservation about putting your hand out just hit me up or somethingā¦ I donāt know š¤·š»āāļø
if people see a kitty they may not donate which creates an issue down the track for you maybe
There can be the opposite effect if there is a donation leaderboardā¦ If people see the top donator is a relatively small number they might be inclined to throw a little extra in to take the top spot. A single big donation covers a lot of smaller donationsā¦ probably more than you would realistically get.
