Donations & funding goals
ItYou is currently not possible to donate directly to slrpnk.net. Please donate to the Lemmy developers if you have some funds to spare.
But you will soon be able tocan donate via LiberaPay to the F-hub.org umbrella organisationorganization that is operating the slrpnk.net servers.
Here we will list the approximate costs, although not everything can be neatly separated from F-hub.org which Slrpnk.net shares servers and infrastructure with.
Hardware investments
- Second-hand UPS and new battery ~ 140€
- Replacement backup hard-drive 8TB ~200€
- 2.5gbit Ethernet card ~20€
Recurring Costs
- Slrpnk.net domain and basic out-going email hosting: 13 € /
yryr. - Glass-fibre internet connection: 40€ / month (shared with other services).
- Electricity consumption:
around 10€ / monthMostly forthefreecurrentasserverswe run off a solar PV system.
Funding goals
- Short term: recovery of hardware investments
- Medium term: switch to a fully solar-powered server
- Long term: compensation of some time spend on server maintenance