[Sysadmin] DigitalOcean hosting payment & finances

[Dean Mah]

Thanks for the update!

Dean


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:27 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> William, I've made a $25 "pre-payment" to the Digital Ocean account
> from evolt's Paypal account. And I setup a calendar reminder for
> myself to login each month (on or around the 15th) to check what's due
> and pay it, so you don't have to continue footing the bill!  I see
> your credit card is still listed as "the" payment method, so hopefully
> if I do this regularly (check the balance due, and overpay it by a bit
> on the 15th) your credit card won't normally get hit at all.  That's
> the plan at least -- we'll see how it goes!
>
> [ btw, you're right, it's kinda wonky that they can't just bill our
> Paypal account the exact amount due each month.  And you can't even
> pay any amount! You have to choose the payment amount from a drop down
> listing some arbitrary increments (i.e. i can pay $10 but not $20 --
> had to pay $25 lol) But actually SoftLayer had similar wonkiness
> surrounding Paypal payments, so I'm sure it's Paypal that's to blame,
> not them.  At SoftLayer I also had to remember to login to their
> system manually each month to pay the invoice amount using Paypal, and
> I had to do it *after* they issued the next month's invoice (turned
> out to be around the 18th) but *before* the 1st, or else they'd send
> me grumpy threatening overdue notices! ]
>
> Fantastic that this looks to be less than half what we were paying
> before (< $20 as opposed to $45) per month!
>
> Finance-wise we currently have:
>
>   $127.21 in the evolt PayPal account, and
>   $433.56 in the PNC Bank checking account
>
> (after the above PayPal payment)  There hasn't been much activity in
> either, other than the slow steady trickle of $10 donations still
> coming from two monthly donors into Paypal, and a recent $102.32 ACH
> payment from Google AdSense into the checking account in January --
> which tends to come in roughly once a year as the earnings from ads
> accrue more than Google's $100 payment threshold.
>
> So: we're in good shape to go on like this, just about forever at this
> rate! :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dave
>
>
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> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?