I made a small donation, and if you like it here, I think you should (if you can) too.
I am one of many that have sought out alternatives to Reddit. I really like the feel of how this community works. I’ve not seen them push the need for support, but I’m sure they’re feeling it. It’s clear they’ve made changes in the past couple of days to help support the growth & load.
That said, servers and bandwidth aren’t free, and they’ve seen a massive wave of influx.
Sidebar says: “Our instance is 100% user-funded - help us keep it running by donating.”
Click here for the Donate Link
Here’s the Open Collective Page with more info.
I’m not affiliated with Beehaw in any way other than being part of the exodus from Reddit, and I like it here.
*This is my first actual non-comment post, so here’s hoping I didn’t mess this up.
Have the admins described how Beehaw is deployed? Do they use VPS with predictable pricing and they’re vertically scaling the servers? Or do they have horizontal scaling and the prices are rising in accordance to demand? Predictable monthly pricing will make it much easier to budget donations.
Yeah it would be cool if they could breakdown what the cost per user per month is, I’d be willing to pay for myself and a few others regularly
The last update I saw said the server cost is something like $55 per month and there is $600 or so in reserves. The updates are usually in Beehaw Support community
Edit: sorry for all the repeated posts, y’all! I was having trouble posting and then suddenly it all worked
https://beehaw.org/post/428209
It’s a week old and not super detailed, but it looks like they’re on Digital Ocean, but might be looking to move to a cheaper service. Based off of how I’ve seen the site struggle I don’t think they have any horizontal scaling.