The Sunny Gardener - December 2025
– Crochet biscuits by @aliceinwaterdeep
Happy New Year! I hope everyone faired well over the holidays, in whatever way that means for you.
Mastodon Updates
There was a small Mastodon update this month v4.5.3 containing mostly minor fixes.
Summary
Hosting Costs
Since upgrading the server to the current hardware, prices have come down, but since we’re currently on an annual contract, I haven’t been able to capitalise on that yet. Long term, I hope to migrate the server again to a newer plan once the current term is up in the summer, which I expect to reduce our costs and increase our bandwidth at the same time.
Hopefully the current craziness with RAM prices doesn’t undo the cost reductions in the meantime.
Expand Hosting Costs
| sunny.garden | December 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Main Server | 12-32GB-512GB | -$90 |
| Worker Server | 2-2GB-40GB | -$7 |
| Media Storage | 285 GB | -$13 |
| Media Bandwidth | Free | $0 |
| Backups | 671 GB | -$17 |
| Domain Name | $55/yr | -$5 |
| Email Server | -$5 | |
| Donations One-Time | $120 | |
| Donations Recurring | $85 | |
| Monthly Totals | ||
| Previous Balance | $53 | |
| Total Expenses | -$136 | |
| Total Donations | $205 | |
| Balance | $122 |
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