Welcome back for our second financial update. See the first one here.

This quarter we added a little bit of hard drive space and 1GB of RAM but haven't been charged for it yet. As I paid for the VPS for 6 months in February, there are no further VPS charges this quarter.

Expenses for April-June 2026: $28.33

The expenses are made up of:

• VPS: $0
• Image and backup storage: $28.33

Expenses are allocated to the period they were paid, not to the period they cover. This is based on the actual amount charged to my card.

Contributions in April-June 2026: $140

We received five donations totalling $140 this quarter. Donations are based on the amount the person donated, as listed by Buy Me A Coffee (before their fees). At the end of the year I'll do a match up to try to match actual payout to donated amount to see what this difference is.

Overall position: -$177.86

• Opening balance: -$289.53
• Contributions: $140
• Expenses: -$28.33
• Total: -$177.86
• Percent of expenses paid for by contributions (this year): 55%

An update on our VPS

During the quarter we added 10GB of storage space and 1GB more RAM but otherwise the VPS seems to be sized appropriately.
Last time I mentioned bandwidth usage and the potential to move away from Cloudflare. As a step towards this, I have disabled Cloudflare image caching, so all images should come via the server. This could also impact the load speed for geolocation reasons so we will see how this goes.

Donations

If you want to contribute to the cost of running Lemmy.nz, see the post here. Or the direct link: https://buymeacoffee.com/lemmynz

The usual caveat: Please don't contribute if it will impact you financially. I don't want to see anyone saying "I only had $5 in my bank account but Lemmy is important so I donated my last $5" like I've seen on other instances. If you can't afford it then don't feel bad, this round is on me. I don't mind, truly. But if you can easily chip in a few bucks a month, then it is appreciated 🙂

Pātai

As usual, feel free to ask any questions!

Very much appreciate the work

Seconded!

Thanks Dave!

Thanks!

Cheers Dave, I put in a little.

I like seeing the numbers; it helps keep things in perspective.

Thanks! For sure if there are people handing over money I'm gonna show where that goes. I'm always happy to answer questions about anything LemmyNZ anyway, I don't have anyone IRL to geek out with lol.

After I made this post there has been another about $250 contributed which is awesome! Back in the black until the next 6 months is paid for next month.