62.71 Prior Balance

Income:
96.62 Feb 2022 donation
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96.62 Total Income

Expenses:
20.42 1&1 Ionos - Site Hosting - 1/29/21 - 3/28/21 (2 months x 10.21 per month)
11.41 January 2021 AWS (Amazon Web Services)
2.62 February AWS
2.06 March
3.79 April AWS
3.95 May AWS
4.04 June AWS
3.83 July AWS
3.90 August AWS
3.86 September AWS
4.20 October AWS
4.15 November AWS
4.25 December AWS
9.20 January 2022 AWS
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81.68 Total Expenses
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77.65 Current Balance


In February 2021, the site moved from a “traditional” hosting model where we paid once monthly price for all resources to being fully hosted on Amazon Web Services, where most components are priced à la carte based on resources used and data transferred. We were taking advantage of some promotions that expired at the end of 2021 that saved around $6 a month.

In months where a lot of activity is going on, such as migrating lots of data (like January 2021) or heavy development, the cost will be higher, but here is the rough breakdown of the typical month of November:
$6.05 Server – compute and memory
$0.64 Server Storage
$1.55 Image Storage
$0.03 Image data transfer
$0.59 Domain Name Services Hosting and queries
$0.17 Backup storage

Domain Name Registration also costs about $24 a year plus tax ($12 each for lifeinbkln.com and lifeinbklyn.com), but that is pre-paid through Jul/Sep 2022, so had no expenses in 2021.
I will probable look in to pre-paying the server costs to get a discount there that will save a few bucks a month moving forward.
Overall, the average monthly cost of running the site is around $12 to $13 a month.

As always, financial assistance for the site is appreciated, but not required.