This is Ten Forward’s income and expense report for November 2024 which as usual means that all of these values are what happened in October 2024.
So without further ado, let’s get into it.
Income and Expenses Table
| Income (Currency-Normalized) | |
| Source | Amount |
| Patreon | CA$93.21 |
| Stripe (Ko-Fi, Direct) | CA$240.63 |
| GoFundMe | CA$458.82 |
| Total | CA$792.66 |
| Expenses (Non-Currency-Normalized) | |
| Source | Amount |
| Hetzner | €50.81 |
| AWS | CA$64.09 |
| Nodeping | $25.00 |
| BigScoots | $52.90 |
| Postmark | $15.00 |
| rsync.net | $21.00 |
| Linode | $113.09 |
| Expenses (Currency-Normalized) | |
| Source | Amount |
| Hetzner | CA$78.22 |
| AWS | CA$64.09 |
| Nodeping | CA$35.59 |
| BigScoots | CA$75.30 |
| Postmark | CA$21.35 |
| rsync.net | CA$29.89 |
| Linode | CA$160.97 |
| Total | CA$465.41 |
| TFSF Deposit (Income – Expenses) | CA$327.25 |
| Previous Month’s TFSF balance | CA$2,406.97 |
| New TFSF Balance After Deposit | CA$2,734.22 |
Notes
What a month. Due to the incident outlined in Hetzner Considered Hostile: A PSA, Ten Forward was moved back to where we originally started: Linode.
As such there are lingering old expenses and new recurring expenses to note here.
Old expense(s) – Hetzner. This is the last invoice from Hetzner that is now paid off. Hetzner should not appear on future reports as an expense.
New recurring expense(s) – Linode, Postmark, rsync.net.
Linode is our new server hosting vendor. We currently have three servers with them – the primary application server that runs Ten Forward, the Elasticsearch server for full text search, and the web server that serves the Ten Forward wiki and donate page.
Postmark is our transactional email vendor. Any emails sent from the Ten Forward Mastodon instance and Ten Forward blog are sent through Postmark. This change is to reduce our reliance on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
rsync.net is a new offsite backup storage vendor. I am happy to report that Ten Forward media uploads are now backed up to this rsync.net offsite storage. In addition to that, our Mastodon instance’s PostgreSQL server and the wiki data is also being backed up to rsync.net. This new vendor is also part of the project to reduce reliance on AWS. I intend to stop using AWS for offsite backup storage at some as of yet undetermined point in the feature.
GoFundMe
Along those lines, I started a GoFundMe in October after the move to raise funds for our increased expenses due to the move to Linode. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to that cause so far, it is much appreciated.
If you would like to contribute, you can find the GoFundMe here. I am aiming to raise CAD$5000 to cover a year of our current expenses.
If you would like to contribute on a recurring basis, you can do that here.
That is all from me this month, see y’all next month!