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The Sunny Gardener - December 2024

A wide telephoto shot of Mount Fuji rising just barely above a band of clouds beyond some neighbourhood apartment buildings in dark silhouette. The mountain, sky, and clouds are all a light sandy colour through the haze and strong back-lighting by the sun.

We made it another year! On to 2025…

Mastodon Update

Mastodon released a minor update v4.3.2 on Dec 4, and this update was applied to sunny.garden on Dec. 19th.

Not much in the way of visible changes in this small update, except that the much derided warnings stripes on Content Warnings were removed. (sunny.garden had applied customized CSS to make them look like flannel instead of danger tape.)

Summary

Overall activity quieted down a bit after the surge of activity in November, and then dipped noticeably around Dec 25th as people got busy with family, holiday travel, etc.

Six month graph of server sidekiq jobs processed per day, increasing gradually from about 1.1M at the beginning of July up to a spike of 2M in November. December flattens out again, until a dip below 1M at Christmas

51 new users, 537 active users, 73k interactions, 35 reports opened, 35 reports resolved

Hosting Costs

No changes to hosting costs this month.

Cost spreadsheet, text follows.

Expand Hosting Costs
sunny.garden 2025-01-01
Main Server 12-32GB-512GB -$84
Worker Server 2-2GB-40GB -$7
Media Storage 274 GB -$10
Media Bandwidth Free $0
Backups 661 GB -$11
Domain Name $35/yr -$3
Email Server -$5
Donations One-Time $25
Donations Recurring $70
Monthly Totals
Previous Balance $97
Total Expenses -$120
Total Donations $95
Balance $72

Canadian Dollars

As always, thank you to everyone that has donated on ko-fi! There’s no obligation or expectation that you donate in order to use the server, and I’m still able to cover any shortfall myself if needed.

– Brook