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Written by Ryan Wild on 2025-01-30 at 00:40

I'm finding myself spending more and more time looking at the finances and having to think and care about cashflow (Having started working for my own company and delivering contracts for customers in December).

It's kinda terrifying in a lot of ways, it certainly doesn't take a lot for the numbers to suddenly show things are trending to the red and needing to figure out what's happened and why. On the bright side it has prompted me to figure out most of when I plan to not be working for the next financial year so I could make sure I can continue to pay my own wages.

It has also prompted me to continue seriously thinking about getting the most value from my money, up to now large financial lump sum investments into what I'm doing hosting Mastodon just hasn't been practical for a whole host of reasons, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't looking a bit more viable and a lot more tempting.

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Written by Ryan Wild on 2025-01-30 at 00:43

From the very rough napkin math I've done, If I bought a fair old chunk of kit (Nearly £17k worth in just hardware) I'd be better off from the savings of what the current monthly outgoings are in around 2 years, which makes a lot of assumptions and I'm hoping a lot of those assumptions are more worst case than reality would be.

I'm most certainly not in a position to just drop £17k on new server kit right now and have some fairly major personal priorities first, but moving towards this new setup does look a lot more likely and a lot more financially viable and would end up reducing my monthly costs even if there are some huge up front costs I need to find.

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Written by Ryan Wild on 2025-01-30 at 00:48

And just for anyone curious, the current (Very finger in the air) costs for everything I currently host which is Fedi related, comes in at somewhere around £14,000 per year when all is said and done.

There's a fair few places we could and would optimise and part of migrating to colocated hardware was always on the cards because we could do some smarter and more efficient uses of the hardware capacity we have. A large cost for us monthly is our media, for the last invoice I got it came in at somewhere just shy of £560 for one month of storage use.

I need to do a lot of thinking and a lot of planning but I'm hopeful by this time next year everything will be re-platformed and running on purchased hardware and should be running both a lot smoother and with a lot of headroom to grow or to host other services.

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