Sorry this is a little late, I've been busy with real life this week.
I'm stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they're all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I'm 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. I've since dropped back to the free plan.
Balance
$193 surplus from July (Income - Expenses)
$293 carried forward from June
= $486 current balance
Future
Wasabi's trial period expired on the 8th of July, so the first bill is due this month.
Domain registration, I'll 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 we'll need to upgrade for additional storage this month. With this upgrade I'll 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
..again, to our generous donors. The offer of an @aussie.zone email address redirect is still open to any donors.
You're an absolute ripper, mate! Fair dinkum, I can't thank ya enough for your bonzer effort. You're a true blue legend, and I reckon I owe ya a cold one at the local pub. Cheers! Thought an Aussie thanks was appropriate.
Stupid question to an old post. My wife will bring up my donating at the end of rattling off the ten hundred other times I’ve given money to some tin hatter cause. In a funny way and I’m embellishing of course.
But it’s adding to a long list of failed causes at this point haha..
I think you have laid this out in detail before and are always very transparent. Are we just aiming to keep hovering above our expenses with a small buffer? I guess in a way I’ve just been watching and waiting for the bad times and then seeing if I could save the day lol.
Probably not the best strategy as it could be a dead horse if left too late. No one could or should expect you to commit to anything forever.
I guess my question is, would having more balance do anything for you? Help decision making? you’re peace of mind even?
My wife might suggest it buys you a shinier computer at the end of this hehehe..
Not a stupid question at all. If donating will cause you any issues, please don't 😀.
I'd 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 isn't possible.
None of the donations will be spent on me or for my personal enrichment. If I ever close aussie.zone down I'd be looking for suggestions on where to donate any surplus funds.
As it stands we're in a good position and I'm not worried at all. If things do ever become a worry for me, I'll keep everyone informed.
Haha - the money isn’t a concern for me, my historic stupidity from the better half’s point of view is a different story.
Non-technical me has been following along with the nerd updates and I see we’re 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 course..
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 maybe.. I don’t know, might be way too early even to ballpark?