====== Ten Forward Costs ======

These are the current monthly and yearly recurring costs for running the Ten Forward instance.

===== Monthly =====

  * [[https://www.linode.com/lp/refer/?r=f8f6a586e0c80a332db98c713b9df034b0d3767f|Linode]] 
      * 1x Dedicated 16 GB server with backups (USD$166/month)
      * 1x Linode 24 GB server with backups (USD$65/month)
      * 1x Nanode 1 GB server with backups (USD$7/month)
  * [[https://aws.amazon.com/|AWS]] - variable cost (CAD$40-$100/month)
      * Database backups (S3), 
      * Media Storage (S3), 
      * Media Distribution (Cloudfront),  
  * [[https://nodeping.com?rid=201912132253N5OYZ|Nodeping]] - External monitoring and status page - USD$25/month
  * [[https://portal.bigscoots.com/?affid=2867|BigScoots]] - hosting tenforward.blog - USD$52.90/month
      * Managed WPO Starter service - USD$34.95/month
      * Performance plan service - USD$17/month
  * [[https://www.postmarkapp.com/?via=34f341|Postmark]] - Outbound transactional email - USD$15/month

===== Yearly =====
  * Porkbun
      * Domain registration renewal - tenforward.social - USD$26.24/year
      * Domain registration renewal - tenforward.blog - USD$21.09/year