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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance 2022-03-12 08:17 pm (UTC)

Eh, you'd be surprised! They have more assets on their annual Form 990 that they have to file with the IRS than we have, but that's because they buy servers and colocate them (and the server is thus counted as an asset and depreciates over time), while we use cloud hosting both for the ability it offers us to resize things on-the-go in response to a sudden demand and because we are done, done, done with having to drag ourselves out of bed and to the datacenter at 3AM in our pajamas to kick a recalcitrant server: that shit was bad enough in our 20s, we don't want to do it in our 40s, too. (The two factors are ... pretty equal in weight, heh.)

They also have a lot more overhead than we do: being a 501(c)(3) involves a lot of fundraising and fulfilment expenses, plus they pay for a lot more software than we do (they went 'pay someone to provide us these collaboration tools so we don't have to waste time building them', we went 'eh, we don't need to be that formal/organized, we can just use free software + chat + DW itself to keep track'), while we pay more people than they do (Mark and I take an extremely modest 'salary' monthly, and we pay Jen and Robby, our contractors, as well). There are a lot of differences between the two organizations! But in terms of pure "what each of us spends each year to keep the site available" without counting in any of those other variables, we're very much in the same ballpark. They have a lot more cash reserves than we do, we have way less overhead than they do. It all kinda balances out.

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