Yes! I think we might even have 500 to 1000 EUR more than we spend this month, so we can save that for next months. A lot of these are one-time donations, so I’ll have to see how much we’ll have next month, I’ll keep you updated on the blog.

The 1700/mo is for all instances we host, with around 30k active users/mo. (If every active user would pay 1 euro per year, it would cover the costs) But it can’t be compared to Reddit. Reddit has employees. Employees cost more than infra. If I would pay myself and all the volunteers for the work we put in, the cost would be at least 10 times what it is now.

https://writefreely.org/

Yes GH is a good way, but I’m sure you can use $ on Patreon as well?

No for bank transfer there’s no bottom limit

Yes it will work. And this way there will be no fees.

The FHF is the foundation owning all instances (https://fedihosting.foundation/hosted/). So the costs are for running all the .world instances. The contribution to FHF is the costs for running the non-profit foundation itself.

The Patreon was setup when mastodon.world was the only instance… haven’t renamed it yet.

https://bunq.me/fhf

Payments are handled by Stripe or Paypal for both platforms so that doesn’t matter

After trying it for a while, I’ve now bought a license. Really cool app.I only have an issue with scaling, but I created an issue in Github for that. Edit: nvm, I just failed in finding the right setting :-)

This looks very nice. A question, we use Teleport, and it does discover all hosts. But when connecting, I need to configure the username for every host separately. Can’t I set a default somewhere?

I stopped self-hosting stuff that’s for the family. In case something happens to me, no way my wife is going to keep this stuff running. And the kids are too young. So they would lose everything.

Family stuff goes in managed solutions (like Proton). Personal and public stuff is selfhosted.

Just something to consider.

This is for the Lemmy.World server (just the physical box, not the related VMs). Around 12TB last month.

I do host some stuff myself 😉 but there’s one thing to keep in mind.

Don’t self host stuff that your family still needs after you’re gone. Unless they are self host nerds like you. I stopped self hosting our mail and docs for example.

Would you agree?

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

Well thanks! ;-)

I run a pixelfed and misskey on the same server, and used to run a mastodon besides that. No issues. (I use docker)

I use 2do which isn’t free but works very well!

Depends on what sort of invoices. For my invoices for billable hours, I use Kimai

I hadn’t either until a few years ago. It’s something worth considering.