# Annual server's fees donations info and links **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum Feedback\ **Created:** [September 23, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440 "2020-09-23T14:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/1 "2020-09-23T14:07:54Z")
Donation link: [https://ko-fi.com/canapin](https://ko-fi.com/canapin) (credit card & PayPal) The work done on the forum, its administration and maintenance is done during our free time. Server fees are funded by the help of donations. The domain name is provided by @Gilby 👍 * * * Donations beyond the yearly goal will go towards next year's fees and any future unexpected costs. Here are the estimated forum fees for the current year, starting from **January 2025** : | Emails\[1\] | Hosting\[2\] | Content Delivery Network\[3\] | Backups\[4\] | Total | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | €20 | €160 | €0 | €30 | **€210** | Support us and you will be granted a forum [badge](https://unicyclist.com/badges/102/donator) as a reward! Feel free to contact me to get one if you didn’t, as I can’t always guess the forum username from the donation information. * * * 1. [Amazon SES](https://aws.amazon.com/en/ses/) 2. [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/) 3. CDN subscription was cancelled because of bot traffic issues 4. [Google Drive](https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/) ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/7 "2021-10-05T14:58:16Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/8 "2021-10-09T23:36:42Z")
Thank you all! 🤗 Your generous donations have reached the **2022** year’s server fees in just a few days, like the previous year. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/9 "2021-10-09T23:36:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/10 "2022-10-02T12:02:46Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/11 "2022-10-02T12:04:47Z")
Here we go for the third year since the huge forum rework… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/12 "2022-11-27T20:56:11Z")
Hey guys! :uni: Your donations have once again met the estimated server’s fees, Thank you for making the thing run! I’ll unpin the topic, as usual, to pin it again next year. Meanwhile, enjoy the forum, unicycling (try not to populate [this topic](https://unicyclist.com/t/what-was-your-worst-unicycling-injury/119330)), and life overall 🤗 ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/13 "2022-11-27T20:56:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/14 "2023-11-01T14:44:26Z")
I’m a bit late… One more year! 😛 Estimated costs have decreased by about 25% thanks to switching the CDN service from Stackpath to Bunny. ✌ Thank you as always for helping this forum live 🙂 :uni: ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/15 "2023-11-01T14:44:44Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/16 "2023-12-16T18:50:55Z")
And once again, all 2024 fees are met, thank you so much, guys, you’re awesome! 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/17 "2023-12-16T18:51:10Z")
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/18 "2024-05-03T21:41:14Z")
I’ve changed the backups hosting provider (from Amazon S3 to Google Drive) and decreased the associated fees by about 30$. 👌 ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/19 "2025-01-03T18:34:39Z")
Happy New Year! 🥳f-pulse: Fees haven’t changed this year. I’ve added a dynamic progress bar on the top left of the forum. It’s automatically updated when a payment is sent through Ko-fi. It will be shown until the donations reach the fees, so I won’t pin this topic like I usually do. The progress bar is custom work, there may be bugs so send me a message if anything seems off (messing with the forum layout on certain devices for example). Also, I’ve changed the fees starting month from September to January, which makes things easier for me (I rolled the slight donation surplus into these 5 months). Happy unicycling! 🤸‍♀️f-spin,flip::uni:f-wobble: ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/20 "2025-01-06T11:37:29Z")
I’ve manually tweaked the current donation progress value because I forgot both taxes and dollar to euro conversion value, which reduces amounts received by 15% in average (total), so the displayed value has decreased a bit. I’ve updated my script to take this into account. Also, the fees listed in the first post of this topic were listed in $, whereas they should have been listed in €, I’ve fixed this as well. ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/21 "2025-01-08T16:01:00Z")
Donations have met the 2025 fees in only 5 days! 🥳 Thank you all and keep being outstanding! ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/22 "2026-01-02T17:30:56Z")
Happy New Year, here we go again! Servers’ costs have decreased a bit. After unexpected fees last year due to traffic spikes from bots (see [⚠️ Post here if you have any issue regarding the site (images or pages not loading, etc)](https://unicyclist.com/t/post-here-if-you-have-any-issue-regarding-the-site-images-or-pages-not-loading-etc/293045)) I couldn’t resolve, I disabled the CDN ([bunny.net](http://bunny.net)). The site’s responsiveness doesn’t seem to be very much affected, at least nobody complained so far. Perhaps I’ll try Cloudflare in the future. Donations progress bar is back. Happy to see that it still works after many Discourse updates 😄 Thanks for still being around! 🤗 ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_aus\_Chemnitz](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/eric_aus_chemnitz/32/3757_2.png) [@Eric\_aus\_Chemnitz](https://unicyclist.com/u/Eric_aus_Chemnitz)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/23 "2026-01-02T20:34:21Z")
It’s so wonderful to see the progress bar grow this fast. You’re all such a wonderful community! Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/24 "2026-01-03T20:44:37Z")
Two days only! 🤯 See ya next year! 😁 :uni: ---
**Author:** ![Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/user_avatar/unicyclist.com/canapin/32/2_2.png) [@Canapin](https://unicyclist.com/u/Canapin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440/28 "2026-01-08T11:19:27Z")
I badly calculated the total cost of running the forum because I apparently can’t do basic addition. I set the goal at 270€, but the correct cost was 210€. At the same time, I also forgot to include the payment processing fees, which are approximately 10% of the total donations, raising the total to about 230€. So there has been an excess of 40€, which I’ll deduct from next year’s goal. Sorry about that, guys! [Next page](https://unicyclist.com/t/annual-servers-fees-donations-info-and-links/265440.md?page=2)