[Sysadmin] new digitalocean droplet plans

[David Kaufman]

Thanks for the update, William, and good work!

And thanks for the heads-up about the billing -- I put $25 on there
from PayPal, and I'll start paying attention to my monthly hosting
payment reminder again!

The year of free hosting has helped beefed up our bottom line a bit!
...thanks to the continued recurring donations of a couple of kind
benefactors.

PayPal: 242.17
PNC Bank: 490.58

(need to transfer a few bucks to the bank again to get it over $500 --
looks like they're still nickel-and-diming us $5 a month again becuz i
wasnt paying attention, again -- d'oh!)

But Google Adsense revenue has been downright dismal for 2017.  We
only earned $66.65 all year, not even enough to reach our minimum
payment threshold of $100, which usually get once a year :-(

I've been meaning to check on that -- I don't think there are ads
running on much of BEO any more, nor most of LEO, so that might
explain why, heheh.

Or maybe if donations can sustain us now with these lower hosting
costs, we should scrap the ads.  Thoughts?  I guess sit's a discussion
for theforum, not sysadmin

thanks,

-dave




On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Dean Mah <dean.mah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice! Thanks for keeping up on this.
>
> Dean
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:28 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>> hey kids,
>>
>> digitalocean (who we use for our two virtual machines, and who I use
>> for beo) have released new droplet plans.  In general, you can get
>> double (some of) the resources for the same money, or the same
>> resources for half.  Nice!
>>
>> I've resized postel (the SGP nameserver) from the old $5/mo 512MB 1CPU
>> droplet to the new $5/mo 1GB 1CPU droplet, and cerf (the NYC mailing
>> list / website server) from the old $20/mo 2GB 1CPU droplet to the new
>> $10/mo 2GB 1CPU droplet.
>>
>> So for postel, we're getting double the RAM for the same price
>> (handy), and for cerf, we're getting the same spec for half the price
>> (woot).  Unfortunately, I couldn't downsize taylor, so I'm getting
>> double the RAM for the same price (shazaaaaam!).
>>
>> We've virtually exhausted our $250 credit that DO gracefully gave to
>> us last year, so tis time to start paying for things again.  But at
>> least it's cheaper now (fifteen bucks a month) ;)
>>
>> -n
>>