July 2023
Breakdown Between 5th Of June - 5th Of July:
| Costs/Donations | $ |
|---|---|
| Monthly Paypal Donations¹ | $6.73 |
| Monthly Patreon Donations¹ | $61.87 |
| Monthly Cryptocurrency Donations¹ | $0 |
| Total Donations (Month) | $68.60 |
| Existing Rollover Donations | $238.71 |
| --- | --- |
| Dedicated Server Cost² | -$88.82 |
| --- | --- |
| Remaining Donation Funds ³ | $218.49 |
Current staff tasks being tracked as of 11th July 2023⁴:
Here's a recap of the staff team actions throughout the last month:
- We’ve connected our Pterodactyl API to our internal monitoring system Nagios, so that we receive internal pager notifications if any of our major servers are detected as being offline for multiple minutes straight.
- While members can (and often will!) spot a server going down before this system alerts us, having such systems in place is a good practice for any dedicated system or infrastructure like ours.
- We’ve addressed some long-standing external backup costs, by reducing the frequency with which we prune. Each prune also re-downloads objects in order to rebuild the packs of backups. and downloading data is the most costly part of our external backup provider Backblaze.
- Pruning backups now only occurs twice a month, with the added benefit of our incremental backups being kept slightly longer on average - between 28 and 42 days. Our documentation on backups has been updated to reflect this change.
- We’ve sadly set our subreddit /r/slabserver to ‘restricted’, following Reddit’s API changes which killed most third party apps, and to reflect that our community has long since moved to Discord. Transparency reports will now be posted on GitHub.
Paypal: http://paypal.slabserver.org/
Patreon: https://patreon.slabserver.org/
Ethereum Address⁵: 0xC55654f781fbea1A820ab9Ea731E16f27206A00b
Nano Address ⁵ ⁶: nano_1ga5xm9sqmaijgsnqti9atty7111a7gbdknram46pbpaecgfzrxbk4833e9w
¹ Donation amount listed is after transaction fees have taken place.
² The dedicated server hosts all of our game servers, databases, as well as our various Discord bots. You can find more detail on this in our wiki
³ Unless disclosed otherwise, this will always be put forward towards next months server costs, and will be displayed in ‘rollover donations’ within the transparency report.
⁴ There will be occasions that certain items on the board are redacted, should they contain sensitive tasks or information.
⁵ This address will only ever be used for community purposes. Any transactions you see on a blockchain explorer reflect community donations moving to the address, or being sent to an exchange to be converted into fiat money to make donations with. Any conversion from crypto into fiat will be noted in the donation breakdown. The cryptocurrencies accepted by Slabserver are not to be considered financial or investment advice.
⁶ Nano is an interesting cryptocurrency I stumbled upon with some really promising green tech. While I don’t expect this address to be used, I believe that Nano allows us to receive the maximum % of your donation out of all available options, given that Paypal and Patreon seem to take an ever increasing cut.
If anyone has queries, wants to see verification of donations, or has feedback on how we present this, feel free to contact the staff team.