A few quick notes on discussions the administrator team has had, since we’ve fielded a lot of questions in these particular fields. We’re posting this both for transparency and to help us limit the load of having to respond to each of you individually.

  • We would like to become an official nonprofit at some point, but there is a cost associated with this, we are not lawyers, and we might need to change where/how we collect donations to do so.
  • We’ve upgraded the server approximately 7 times now. We’re trying to balance fiscal responsibility with server costs. We are aware that digital ocean isn’t the cheapest server and we are trying to be conservative with estimates and give ourselves extra runtime at whatever tier we are on. We’re also hoping that the upcoming lemmy version will solve a lot of our CPU-bound issues.

We are aware of the following bugs:

  • the “report created” indicator flashes in the bottom left corner for some users randomly, even non-moderator users
  • sometimes, briefly or without a refresh, the username in the top corner will not be your own; as far as we can tell this is purely cosmetic and is not a security issue
  • sometimes the post you’re in changes to another post for no clear reason
    • luckless@beehaw.orgEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Beehaw.org is run off Digital Ocean, they currently have 16 vCPUs and 32 gigs of ram. They plan on hopefully scaling back down once the whole reddit migration situation has calmed down.

      • marx2k@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        That actually sounds pretty cheap. Unless social ocean is way way way more expensive than aws?

        • luckless@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          It seems that Digital Ocean is considered relatively expensive actually.

          Though I hear it has good support and it’s very easy to use. I can’t speak on how much AWS costs though, I’m unsure and don’t like supporting amazon regardless.

    • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Depends. Who wants to know and why…

      I think we got it on an rpi. Thanks for the donations, we managed to buy two of them.

      • ultraHQ@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Lol, because I’ll be spinning up an instance this coming weekend with some QoL changes that I’d like to see, but don’t think would be merged in (route schema for posts as i dont like {url}/post/{post_id})