This is posted monthly, just to be transparent as to what we use your donations for. Thank you to all who has donated! Please do not feel obligated to donate, as we know times are hard and individual circumstances may differ. Donations just help guarantee that we can keep Bookrastinating running for a longer time!
This Month in Donations
Our server costs are currently as follows (in Canadian dollars):
Hosting: $37.95/month
Domain Name: $19.45/year or $1.62/month
SendGrid E-mail Service: $89.95/month (due to moving to a dedicated IP so that our e-mails don't bounce)
PrivateEmail E-mail Mailbox: $19.85/year or $1.65/month
This makes our monthly total costs amount to: $131.17/month
This month, we have made this much in donations: $49.05.
Last month we had an excess of $3.19.
Combined with the rollover from last month, we have covered $52.24 or 40% of the server costs!
Thank you everyone for the donations, we greatly appreciate your support!
This is posted monthly, just to be transparent as to what we use your donations for. Thank you to all who has donated! Please do not feel obligated to donate, as we know times are hard and individual circumstances may differ.
This Month in Donations
Our server costs are currently as follows (in Canadian dollars):
Hosting: $37.95/month
Domain Name: $19.45/year or $1.62/month
SendGrid E-mail Service: $89.95/month (due to moving to a dedicated IP so that our e-mails don't bounce)
PrivateEmail E-mail Mailbox: $19.85/year or $1.65/month
This makes our monthly total costs amount to: $131.17/month
This month, we have made this much in donations: $92.61.
Last month we had an excess of $41.72.
Combined with the rollover from last month, we have exceeded our monthly goal by $3.19!
Happy New Year, everyone! Thank you, everyone who has donated in December. This monthly donation post is just for transparency and to keep us accountable with the donations we receive.
Last month, we put out a poll (https://citrus.farm/@bookrastinating/109438781745941969) asking everyone about how to deal with donations that exceed our monthly server costs. The poll has determined that we shall roll over the donations over to the next month.
This Month in Donations
Our server costs are currently as follows (in Canadian dollars):
Hosting: $37.95/month (up from $37.72/month due to upgrading to 8 GB of RAM)
Domain Name: $19.45/year or $1.62/month
SendGrid E-mail Service: $89.95/month (up from $19.95/month due to moving to a dedicated IP so that our e-mails don't bounce)
PrivateEmail E-mail Mailbox: $19.85/year or $1.65/month
This makes our monthly total costs amount to: $131.17/month
This month, we have made this much in donations: $108.21.
Last month we had an excess of $64.68.
Combined with the rollover from last month, we have exceeded our monthly goal by $41.72!
Alternatives to SendGrid Dedicated IP Plan?
We have had problems sending to Outlook/Hotmail accounts as well as some ProtonMail accounts. This has resulted in the decision to upgrade our plan with SendGrid to the Pro Plan. This has solved the problem in the meantime, however… It is a little ridiculous that we are spending more on e-mail service than actually hosting the site, so we are always up for suggestions on cheaper alternatives (as long as they are as reliable).