Estimated annual running costs
Published on January 15, 2023 by Marcus Young
It currently costs around £1000 per annum to run the Rambling Readers BookWyrm instance. This includes:
- Server and file storage space (Mythic Beasts, Cambridge, UK): £62.16/month
- Off-site backup file space (Digital Ocean, Frankfurt, Germany): £6.60/month
- Systems monitoring and status page (Cronitor, Berkeley, USA): £14/month
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Tier 1 registration fee: £35/annum
- Domain name registration (DNS): £10/annum
- SMTP mail service (Prolateral Consulting, Luton, UK): £18/annum
The server is currently specified to provide an excellent user experience, especially for CPU-constrained functionality such as import. There is room for growth in users over the next 12 months within this specification without a reduction in performance. The server will be upgraded as the number of users increase before any deterioration in performance.