You can’t afford to pay everyone. And it’s a slippery slope.
Here is a list of what the grotto pays for, and what we don’t. How we’re saving money.
| Service Type | What We Use | $/mo | What we avoided | $/mo |
| Cloud Storage | S3 | .02 | ||
| SES | .06 | Mail Chimp | 13 | |
| Domains (3) | Route53 | 3.75 | Route53 | 3.75 |
| DNS | Route53 | 0.50 | Cloudflare? | 0 |
| Hosting | Dav’s old gaming PC | 0 | Handled by Saas Provider | 0 |
| Website | WordPress | 0 | Bluehost | 19 |
| Membership | Paid Membership Pro | 0 | PMPro (Licensed) | 25 |
| Document Signing | Documenso | 0 | Docusign | 25 |
| Communications | Discord | 0 | Discord | 0 |
| Grotto Events | Sesh.fyi ($100/once) | 0 | Apollo | 4 |
| Moderation | Zeppelin | 0 | CarlBot | 7 |
| Integrations | n8n | 0 | Zapier | 19.99 |
| Password Manager | sFTP+KeepassXC | 2.51/mo | LastPass | 4 |
| Photos | Immich ($100/once) | 0 | Google Photos | 4.16 |
| oauth2 services | Authentik | 0 | Auth0 | 35 |
| Backups | zfs NAS across town | 1 | Handled by SaaS Provider | 0 |
| Monitoring | Uptime Kuma | 0 | Handled by Saas Provider | 0 |
| Montly Total | 7.84 | 159.90 | ||
| Yearly Total | $94.08 | $1918.80 |