Dragalia Lost Wiki:Finance
The following is the Wiki's financial information (donations, expenses, etc.) to provide full transparency into the Wiki's usage of money. All funds are handled in a separate Dragalia Wiki-specific PayPal account by Elaeagnifolia, and any financial questions should be directed to them.
Last updated: Elaeagnifolia (talk) 14:47, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Changelog[edit]
- [Oct. 04, 2021] Application Server (dragalia-wiki-mediawiki) specs were increased from 2vCPUs / 4GB Memory to 4vCPUs / 8GB Memory.
- [Feb. 04, 2022] Added a Pre-Fees/Tax Amount and Fees column to the Finance Log spreadsheet for fee transparency. See also Dragalia Lost Wiki:Donate#Fees.
- [Mar. 27, 2022] Application Server (dragalia-wiki-mediawiki) specs were decreased back to 2vCPUs / 4GB Memory from 4vCPUs / 8GB Memory.
- [Aug. 08, 2022] Adjusting costs based on DigitalOcean's server cost increases. DigitalOcean also now allows direct payments from PayPal.
Cost Breakdown[edit]
This is the general breakdown of the Wiki infrastructure expenses, not inclusive of taxes (8.25%) or any overage fees. All servers are currently hosted with DigitalOcean.
| Item | Description | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend Cache Server (dragalia-wiki-varnish) |
Uses Varnish to cache and serve pages to reduce requests to application server. Also has NGINX for SSL termination.
1vCPUs / 2GB Memory / 50GB Disk / SFO3 (San Francisco) |
$12 / monthly |
| Application Server (dragalia-wiki-mediawiki) |
Heart of the stack. Houses MediaWiki, NGINX, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
2vCPUs / 4GB Memory / 80GB Disk / SFO3 (San Francisco) |
$24 / monthly |
| Database Server (dragalia-wiki-db) |
Houses the MediaWiki MySQL databases.
1vCPUs / 2GB Memory / 50GB Disk / SFO3 (San Francisco) |
$12 / monthly |
| Domain (dragalialost.wiki) |
Domain name the Wiki uses. May fluctuate depending on domain name registrar (Namecheap). | $27.06 / yearly |
| Backups | Cost of snapshots ($0.05/GB based on snapshot size) and backups of the servers, database, etc.
Backups are done weekly and saved for a month. |
~$6 / monthly |
Finance Logs[edit]
The following is a log of all financial transactions for the Wiki. When reading the logs, please note the following:
- All amounts are in USD.
- DigitalOcean invoices are sent on the 1st of each month.
- DigitalOcean charges an 8.25% tax.
- Patreon donations are automatically transferred on the 5th of each month.
Because DigitalOcean only allows PayPal to pre-fund the account instead of directly paying the bill itself, the Total Balance here includes PayPal balance + funds prepaid to DigitalOcean.As of August 2022, Digital Ocean now allows payments from PayPal directly.- Refer to the donation page for the breakdown on donation fees.
