I finally got the invoice for March so I can crunch the numbers once again. Hetzner has assured me this was a one-time delay and going forward I'll be receiving my invoices on the first of the month like normal, so my precious spreadsheet is saved.
On another note, Hetzner has recently gone from Extremely Boring to Moderately Interesting, which is enough to cause me a good deal of anxiety. There have been a couple of reports from other admins about Hetzner closing their accounts with no explanation and, more importantly, no access to their data. This is a nightmare scenario, but I'm not ready to jump ship just yet, because I've looked around at alternatives and Hetzner is still Pretty Dang Cheap. However, as a hedge against the nightmare scenario, I have moved the database backups to another provider's data center on an entirely different continent, so that if something happens with Hetzner I will still have a recent copy of the database and will be able to migrate the instance to a new hosting service with minimal loss of data.
Ok, on to the numbers:
In the month of March we gained 13 new party-goers, plus 22 new sign ups in the first 18 days of April, for a grand total of 394 beautiful beige babies. Of those, 235 accounts have been active in the last month.
Welcome new party-goers! if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Finances:
For the month of March we received $230.00 in donations. After PayPal fees, that comes out to $200.87. We had $1,496.60 left over from February, so our total available funds for paying the March hosting fees was $1,726.60.
After paying the hosting bills for March, we have $1,579.67 left in donation funds. That's enough to keep us running for over a year, so we are in good shape. Thank you to all who donated!
And thank you to all of the party-goers for being awesome people and making this the great community it has become. It's honestly more than I could have imagined when I started this instance, and it's all because of you fine folks.
