It's the beginning of the month again and that means new bills for the servers (which we now have to partially move due to Oracle)! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! 
Our services will always remain free, but support so that the whole thing can run in the long term and finance itself is welcome 
For a longer explanation of the costs and other donation options, look here!
MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
You can find a complete and detailed explanation of our maintenance costs here: English GermanLiberapay
Explanation of the operating expenses of mastodon.deMonthly charges
• Electricity: 139.73 €
Total: 276.84 € / month
You can view many popular options to donate here!
And here is an exact chronological list of all expenses and donations.
How does it all fit together?
Electricity cost
We pay ~0.19 € / KWh, the rack for #MastodonDE consumes ~0.9 KW, but also ~1.2 KW at peak operation, so we calculate with a usage of 1.0 KW.So 1.0 KW × 0.1941 € / KWh × 24h × 30 days = 139.73 € / month.
Cloud servers
Root server
For the mastodon.de instance we use a Hetzner root server (AX52 | Upgrade to DDR5 ECC RAM | Primary IPv4) which costs 80.92 € / month.Web server
For the website join-mastodon.de we use a separate Hetzner cloud server ('CPX11 | x86 | 40 GB | eu-central'), so that the site is independent from the rest of our infrastructure.
This web server costs 5.20 € / month.In total we pay 86.19 € / month for the servers.
Internet
Some of the servers are operated in @ErikUden's private home and therefore also use his internet connection. Since the company behind it, Uden UG (limited liability), can also be reached by telephone via this combined contract, this is included in the price.We have the Red Internet & Phone 1000 Cable from Vodafone with 1150 Mb/s download and 56.7 Mbit/s upload, this costs 70 € / month.
70 € / 2 = 35 €.
So MastodonDE pays 35 € / month for an internet connection.
Domain(s)
The domains and instances operated by the MastodonDE network:Total domain costs:
We use the one (1) mailbox email business offer from IONOS for info@mastodon.de which costs 5 € / month.A total of 276.84 € / month
With this money we could run MastodonDE if:
- No device or server ever breaks and needs to be replaced
- Storing the backups externally would not cost any money
- We never need external help
- We never get into legal problems
- No one is paid for work on the project or previous expenses are paid
As you can easily see when reading this article, the 276.84 € is really only to cover the costs of optimal operation. When this value is reached, there are no more costs that we are left with, which, in addition to our time, we would like to spend on this project, but may not be able to spend forever.
In the long term, MastodonDE will become its own e.V. to ensure that as a platform we will always remain ad-free, algorithm-free, data theft, anti-commercial and anti-capitalist!
To make this possible we need donations of 276.84 € / month.
You can view all the options to donate here!Once this bill is covered, MastodonDE will run long-term!
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**Erklärung der Kosten für das Betreiben von mastodon.de** [English version](https://mastodon.de/@MastodonDE/110811119053549314) *Monatliche Kosten* :blank: • Strom: 139,73 € :blank: • Cloud-Server: 86,19 € :blank: • Internet: 35,00 € :blank: • …MastodonDE
