About a week ago a chart showing how your contributions have been supporting the community was requested. Well here it is.

I should preface it by making a few points. February, wasn't really a bad month- it's just that January and December were special because of the server drive we did that netted an extra $1,000 - and the launch of our donation system - which meant there was more revenue pouring into the system in those months in particular. Also, February is a short month. Taken as a whole, and compared to other months - February was a great month.

Our costs are made up of paying for 4 servers sitting in a rack somewhere in Virginia - and our CDN costs. We use the CDN to cache static images like thumbnails and other graphics.

If it looks like we're bleeding money- take heart- this chart doesn't include our advertising revenue which kind of fills the gap. To be honest though it's a close thing- and we we tend to to just scrape by. The nice thing is though that we're not in debt! (unlike a typical silicon valley start-up, which we are not)

Thank you again to everyone who has supported this community - it helps us to know there are people out there who believe in the Sift as much as we do!