(03-02-2015, 07:41 PM)Blue Wrote: Out of curiosity, where will these donations go to? Is there some project in mind for the site that requires an amount of cash expense (server upgrade, I don't know)?
Flynt mentioned it, but yes, the site costs about $60 a month to run, give or take a few bucks. The money goes to Amazon for a t2.medium instance, a t2.small MySQL RDS instance (non-redundant), Route53 DNS service, various bits of EBS storage (RDS, snapshots, etc.), and our not inconsequential outbound data transit.
While I can and have shouldered the cost myself over the last year, if we want new features that require me to buy software, spin up a new instance, or otherwise expand capabilities (those milestone goals Flynt mentioned, as well as some undisclosed ones if we make just super serious money), I can't exactly justify the cost myself going forward.
For what it's worth, one of the patron-only updates will be a monthly cost breakdown of the site's accounting so you can see where your money's going.
I just posted one of those for the curious.As for the timing of the Patreon site going live, it was actually entirely coincidental.
I'd been getting it ready and working through some of the issues, and it just now got to the point where it was ready to go. I will be providing the name-related rewards before the pledges actually process, since it's not like I can't just revoke them if one doesn't process. Don't worry -- you won't have to wait until April to get your shiny red name.
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