Another Eden Wiki:Finance
The following is the Wiki's financial information (donations, expenses, etc.) to provide full transparency into the Wiki's usage of money. All funds are handled in a separate Another Eden Wiki-specific PayPal account by Elaeagnifolia, and any financial questions should be directed to them.
Last updated: Elaeagnifolia (talk) 21:54, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Changelog[edit]
- [Aug. 22, 2023] Updated cost of servers.
Cost Breakdown[edit]
This is the general breakdown of the Wiki infrastructure expenses, not inclusive of taxes (8.25%) or any overage fees. All servers are currently hosted with DigitalOcean.
| Item | Description | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| anothereden-wiki-core | Heart of the stack. Houses MediaWiki, NGINX, Memcached, MySQL database, etc.
4vCPUs / 8GB Memory / 60GB Disk / SFO3 (San Francisco) |
$48 / monthly |
| anothereden-wiki-cargo | Server for Cargo database
2vCPUs / 2GB Memory / 60 GB Disk / SFO3 (San Francisco) |
$18 / monthly |
| Domain (anothereden.wiki) |
Domain name the Wiki uses. May fluctuate depending on domain name registrar (Namecheap). | $27.06 / yearly |
| Backups | Cost of snapshots ($0.05/GB based on snapshot size) and backups of the servers, database, etc.
Backups are done weekly and saved for a month. |
~$4 / monthly |
Finance Logs[edit]
The following is a log of all financial transactions for the Wiki. When reading the logs, please note the following:
- All amounts are in USD.
- DigitalOcean invoices are sent on the 1st of each month.
- DigitalOcean charges an 8.25% tax.
- Patreon donations are automatically transferred on the 5th of each month.
- Refer to the donation page for the breakdown on donation fees.
