(05-17-2017, 09:43 PM)Aysun Wrote: No questions, but how about a progress bar on that lump-sum so we are motivated to donate? Just sayin', it's effective.
Also, FINALLY. Thank you.
This is a little tricky because donations are handled through a Patreon, which processes monthly. It happen beginning of the month, which is then used to reimburse whoever's paying the bills.Â
A sample monthly bill looks something like this. (This was taken from a past cycle, but costs should have remained about the same, depending on usage spikes and special charges).
AWS: $185.66
- Data transfer: $19.89
- EC2: $112.14
- RDS: $52.39
- Route53: $1.24
Arrowchat Enterprise license, 1 server: $295.00Â (renewal per year is half this)
So what do all these mean?Â
- AWS is Amazon Web Services, which is out hoster.
- EC2 is a type of server offered by AWS. In this case, it's out webserver. It powers the forum and wiki software. Usually if something goes down, we start troubleshooting here.
- RDS is our dedicated databas server, which hosts all the information displayed on the forums and wiki. It's optimized for database tasks.
- Route53 is Amazon's DNS service. It's what ensures we actually get to stay ffxiv-roleplayers.com!
edit: We're still working on the theme, but would people be interested in some screenshots of what some of this looks like? I have a IPS 4.1 testing instance which isn't really public-safe, but if there's a specific feature you're interested in seeing some defaults of, I'd be happy to get some shots of it!
