Sunny Garden Hub

The Sunny Gardener - August 2025

A tiny ceramic toad figurine with a cute, grumpy expression. The figurine is rounded, about the size of a large cherry tomato, with bulging eyes and no limbs. The body is a light olive color, and is smooth and glossy. Its face is hand-painted and consists of large white eyes with horizontal slit pupils, a large downturned mouth, and pink cheeks. The backside (not shown in this picture) is bumpy as if it’s covered in warts. The figurine is set on a green felt backdrop with decorative faux greenery (ivy) and tiny pinecones.grumpy toad by @fablewooddesignco

Mastodon Updates

Mastodon v4.4.3 was released, containing various fixes including to some security issues.

Verification Scam Spam

There was another wave of verification scam messages coming in, this time either from randomly named accounts, or from previously legitimate accounts that had been compromised, for example due to using the same passwords that were leaked from other services.

As always, please remember to:

Summary

88 new users, 607 active users, 79k interactions, 51 reports opened, 51 reports resolved

Hosting Costs

Our Main Server costs have increased about 8% based on the most recent invoice. It appears our host has started charging us QST.

I’ve also added in the taxes on storage costs which weren’t being included before.

Cost spreadsheet, text follows.

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sunny.garden August 2025
Main Server 12-32GB-512GB -$90
Worker Server 2-2GB-40GB -$7
Media Storage 279 GB -$13
Media Bandwidth Free $0
Backups 550 GB -$16
Domain Name $55/yr -$5
Email Server -$5
Donations One-Time $10
Donations Recurring $89
Monthly Totals
Previous Balance $105
Total Expenses -$134
Total Donations $99
Balance $70

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