beestat
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Where does all the money go?
🕑 Added 2019-08-20 14:01:00 +0000 UTCSomething that's very important to me when developing beestat is transparency. I have no super secret formula to protect and all this is made possible because I have some awesome users. So keeping with that, here's my monthly budget:
Income: $136
Digital Ocean - Logging Server: $5
Digital Ocean - Application Server: $5
Digital Ocean - 300GB Volume: $30
Smarty Streets: $7
DNSimple - DNS: $5
DNSimple - Domain: $3 ($40/year)
All that adds up to about $55/mo in costs. The additional $81/month gets banked for assorted one-time costs (Publishing an app, software licensing, hardware, giveaways, etc). I'll also need the additional funds as beestat grows. I already have 200GB+ in database space and I'm looking for a way to reduce that so storage costs don't get out of control.
So as always thank you for your support! Having all my amazing Patrons keeps me from having to worry about these costs and enables beestat to be even better. Without your support I would most likely be running beestat on an unreliable server out of my home in order to avoid hosting costs.
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I build everything extremely lightweight. I will probably have to upgrade the main application server soon. Server load is averaging a bit above 1 right now on a single core. The vast majority of the load is from the cron job that keeps data synced for 4,000 users.
I enjoy the process and providing a meaningful service to people. :)
I am impressed that you are running it on a couple of $5 Digital Ocean droplets.
The baseline is covered, but it doesnt leave much for a weekly "job done" beer... I guess passion is what your fueling on!
