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How is funding? (programming.dev)
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I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

From the sidebar https://github.com/sponsors/snowe2010/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Thanks.

I would like to have some help with server and maintenance costs. Currently the site costs about $2,100 USD a year to run, but a large portion of that was for the initial domain name purchase which was around $580 USD.

Thankfully we've grown pretty slowly so it hasn't cost so much so far, but it will begin to add up soon. @snowe2010

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month

58% towards $200 per month goal

Can only sponsor through GitHub?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

$1500/year sounds an awful lot for a site that barely receives any updates even from the public.

What efforts are being developed to lower operational costs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

From the github

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small.

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