Monthly. There were a couple yearly that I just normalized down to monthly.
Shadow
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Yes, shipped to a server at my house.
No we launched with stripe, but if you look at our site you'll see we don't push it heavily since we pay more fees there.
Good idea, they all do except interac since everything routes through stripe. It's absurd the amount of transaction data they get. Thanks!
As requested, here's some additional info about donation methods / sizes / volume!
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca @pglpm@lemmy.ca
I like the idea of a specific fundraiser. ~~Our post 6 months ago is what drive the big spike visible on the graphs, so I was hoping for a similar boost this time.~~ If we don't get there naturally, I think that's a reasonable next step.
See below for your other question.
Edit: I was wrong, the big spike was Smorks transferring our old donations over. I forgot about that!
I have no problem sharing anonymized info for things like this, it's just difficult to pull.
We accept donations a few different ways, they can be one time or recurring, we don't know who people are , and we often get paid weeks after they happen once it gets reconciled by stripe.
Let me see what I can do.
Re: Lem.ee that's kinda a different problem. They weren't financial issues afaik, but admin burnout. I don't think that's a concern on our side at this time.
Two hosts would cost more in colo fees and we don't need the resources. The redundancy would be nice, but this is enterprise grade hardware covered under Dell prosupport. I also have an identical box running my home systems, so I could steal parts temporarily if we had an issue.
Yeah the ram is just what the hosts came with. It's way more than we need and so everything is very over provisioned.
Was this recently? I just pulled in some more fixes a few hours ago. It's still under very active development.
Hello everyone!
It’s time for another long-overdue update on how Fedecan and our various sites are doing. It’s been just over two years since the great Reddit migration, and in that time we’ve made some solid progress:
- Registered Fedecan.ca as a non-profit
- Moved from OVH to our own hardware in a Vancouver datacenter
- Started collaborating with the team behind sh.itjust.works
- Launched Pixelfed.ca
- Launched Piefed.ca
Finances
Here’s a look at our bank balance since we began accepting donations:
We’re currently sitting at around $2,900, with a monthly burn of about $200, which gives us roughly a year of runway. We have some additional annual costs (like domain renewals and non-profit registration), but overall we run very lean.
Fedecan still owes:
- TruckBC: $1,980
- Shadow (me): $525
These were out-of-pocket hosting and non-profit registration costs from 2023/2024. It’d be great to get those covered, but we want to keep at least a year of operating expenses in reserve.
If you're a regular user and value what we're doing, please consider donating! We have multiple ways to donate, you can find the comparison and donation links on our website: https://fedecan.ca/en/donate
Sh.itjust.works
Nothing major to report here - we’ve all been a bit busy lately, but collaboration is continuing slowly behind the scenes.
Fediverse Growth
We're seeing a healthy volume of posts and communities on lemmy.ca, surging with each Reddit drama:
Infrastructure
Our server is a Dell R7515 with an EPYC 7763, 1 TB ram and 4x 7.68tb nvme data disks, which is hosted in a datacenter in Vancouver, BC.
I spun up victoriametrics + victorialogs a few weeks ago and have been ingesting all of our data, giving us the ability to put together some nice grafana dashboards.
Everything is running great on the infrastructure side of things. Our server is barely working up a sweat and we shouldn't have to worry about scaling for a long time.
Lemmy.ca still comprises almost all of our traffic:
Lemmy.ca
Our over provisioned stack is performing well, handling the occasional lemmy / lemmy-ui dropout:
Similarly the DB is mostly running out of ram:
Our object storage is slowly climbing as expected, but we've got several years of capacity to figure out a long term solution:
I’m also doing some limited analytics on our web logs. As expected, lemmy.world makes up the majority of our federation traffic:
One interesting thing to see from the user-agent data is the breakdown of traffic by the different mobile clients:
The “dart” UA is just a common web library, Thunder reports as this and I suspect other clients do too. If you’re a client developer, please set your user-agent!
Out of the alternative web clients we support, tesseract is the most popular although the overall traffic volume is still low:
We only store 7 days of logs but I’m hoping to get these pulled out into metrics soon, since it would be interesting to track which clients / interfaces people use over time.
Pixelfed.ca
Not much to say on this one, due to using local storage it currently runs on a single VM without redundancy.
Piefed.ca
Piefed runs on a pair of VMs with its own database and object storage backends.
Cloudflare
If you want to compare against previous data posts, here’s our same cloudflare graphs for lemmy.ca
As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks for being a part of the Fediverse!
Good morning everyone. Just a quick heads up that I've banned a good chunk of IP space in China due to abusive traffic.
I've tried to restrict this where possible to datacenter blocks from Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba, but China Telecom / Mobile were also heavy sources of suspicious traffic. I doubt we have many (if any) users in China, but if you are affected please let me know.
This has been ongoing for a while and I ignored it initially since the traffic levels were low, but it wasn't anymore.
The ban has very visibly cut our traffic levels:
I'm routinely running into an issue where if I haven't used the app in a while (a few hours), it hangs trying to connect. I then force restart and it's fine.
I was running onto this on the play store version but I'm on 0.7.0-1 now and still seeing it regularly.
Known issue? Or any suggestions on how to debug?
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