2026 report
2026 was the first year that F-hub.org accepted monetary donations via LiberaPay and initially also a now defunct FOSSpay instance.
This is a work in progress.
Funds received
In 2026 we received XXX € from approximately XX individual donors.
With LiberaPay it is difficult to determine the exact reason of the donation, but from known user-names and similar hints we estimate that about half was donated in many small amounts by users of SLRPNK.net and the rest mostly by a few bigger amounts from long term FreeGameDev.net users / contributors.
After subtraction of an estimated XXX€ for income tax, the available funds were in total: XXX €
Hardware purchases
The following hardware expenses where made in laterlate 2025 or during 2026 and refunded from donations received:
- PiKVM clone (second hand, not including SD card): 35€
- Dell Optiplex 3060 midi tower with Intel i5-8500 (second hand): 170€
10gbit SPF+ to copper
Total expenses for hardware: XXX €
Recurring costs
Domain costs:
Internet connectivity costs for glasfiber line : XX€ per month
Total recurring expenses in 2026: XXX€
Power usage / costs
Since power usage is mostly via a photovoltaic system it is hard to estimate the exact costs and the capital expenses were not solely made for running the servers. During summer months there was an excess power even accounting for battery storage and thus no extra costs for running the servers occurred. When including winter months, it is estimated that approximately 80% (to be confirmed) of the total power demand for the servers was covered by solar power. Given an estimated average power usage of 200W for the servers and networking equipment, the cost of the remaining electricity sourced from the local power grid was approximately 70€ for the entire year or about 6€ per month.
Defunct FOSSpay / Contributron instance and canceled grant
Early 2025 we successfully applied for an small NLnet grant to add GNU Taler support to a FOSSpay fork called Contributron. Due to lack of progress with this integration and no practical way to use it with Euros by early 2026, we decided to cancel this grant. No money was received as a result.
Despite this, we ran a trial with the Contributron instance using the existing Stripe integration, however when we ran into a bug that caused the monthly payments to be charged twice to the donators, it was shut down in early 2026 to avoid further issues. It is currently not planned to revive this payment option.