I was trying to work out how much to donate to Kbin to keep the lights on. I read somewhere it costs something like $1/month per user?

Can we assume that 1/5 of users will be donating on a monthly basis?

So most people will be donating something like $5/month to cover the freeloaders and those that genuinely can’t afford it?

Does that seem about right?

I was surprised to see that only 190 out of ~5k users have so far donated:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

That maths doesn’t work does it?

I hope there’s a recurring payment option soon like Open Collective otherwise I’ll probably forget to donate next month.

  • Kata1yst@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For 6k users last month it cost €16/m

    For 121k users at the moment (according to the website statistics posted here) it will cost €67/m, though I think we can all agree the system is a bit under provisioned at present, despite using the largest instance provided by the VPS (edit: not entirely true, see @ajar7 's reply below).

    Assuming the truth is somewhere in between (I’m assuming the current state is ~30% under provisioned), and horizontal scaling will be both necessary and somewhat less efficient (I’m assuming ~40% less efficient than vertical scaling)

    It comes to something like €0.001 per month per user.

    At Wikipedia they get around 40,000 gifts of on average $15. They get something like 5.1B unique visits per month. That’s roughly $0.00012 per visit.

    The comparison seems to imply we need to get something like 10x the user/donor engagement of Wikipedia, which is very sobering.