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Our September 2024 financial update is here.

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the November 2023 Beehaw Financial Update (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

$134.40 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

$112.00 for hosting the site itself
$22.40 for backups
$0.00 for site snapshots

$28.80 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

$24.00 for hosting Hive
$4.80 for backups
$0.00 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: $596.28

all contributions this month were monthly donations.

total end of month balance: $5,470.13

expense runway, assuming no further donations

assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about two years of runway

finance history

	July	August	September	October	November
Contributions	$3,870.44	$1,310.90	$1,033.82	$691.85	$596.28
Expenses	$566.98	$523.79	$264.50	$230.81	$231.54
Difference	+$3,303.46	+$787.11	+$769.32	+$461.04	+$364.74
Balance	$3,591.33	$4,347.79	$4,701.66	$5,198.47	$5,470.13

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

All contributions being from monthly contributions is a very interesting note. They are what will allow you to reliably make long term decisions. Glad to see the monthly donations are still covering the expenses, and the runway is getting longer over time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Going to donate $25 this month. Don’t like the downward trend!

We are lucky to have this space y’all. Please consider giving a few dollars.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Cool beans! Thanks as always for the update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This surprises me. I thought it would cost way more money to host a site like this.