financial report

[andrewharvey]

I see there is now some fundraising happening https://opencollective.com/openaddresses.

Is there a financial report or any further details of the expenses for OpenAddresses?

[iandees]

Now that money is flowing through Open Collective there will be. I can build some reports in the near future, but from memory:

Income

We received a donation from Mapbox a couple years ago.

Expense

• Expenses are almost entirely a monthly AWS bill of ~$250. There have been a few months where single users have used an abnormal amount of bandwidth, pushing bills up to ~$2,000 a couple times.
• To defend against these users, we've been using BunnyCDN as a CDN in front of the primary S3 bucket. That costs ~$20/month.
• We paid a contractor a total of < $500 to help with some data prospecting for a couple months.
• I pay $12/mo to Google for email from my own credit card.

[andrewharvey]

Thanks. Any idea on the breakdown of compute, storage and bandwidth costs? I know you recently looked into reducing storage costs but I think there's still room for optimising compute and storage usage more to reduce these costs and just trying to understand if it's worth trying to pursue that further or not.

[iandees]

Here's a breakdown per month last year for the AWS bill:

The vast majority is S3. Within S3, there's about $90/mo of storage and the rest is data transfer out of S3.

You can see that non-S3 usage is fairly slim. We have an RDS database and an instance that's on 24/7 along with the instances that run to do periodic work. We removed a bunch of stuff that was sitting around doing nothing earlier last year, too, to save money: