TL;DR: This month, the total operating cost of the https://vernissage.photos platform was $437.77, of which $189.80 was contributed by patrons. Thank you very much for every contribution!
Below is a detailed financial report for operating https://vernissage.photos during June 2026. The report is broken down by individual service providers whose services are essential to keeping the platform running.
Amazon (S3 + CloudFront)
Vernissage uses Amazon S3 to store all user files and relies on Amazon CloudFront - a content delivery network (CDN) - to distribute those files quickly and reliably across the internet.
- Total storage used: 957 GB
- Total number of files: 3,722,519
- Total cost: $48.07
As you can see, in June the storage increased by another 50 GB, which is significantly less than in May. The total cost was practically the same as in May, which I’m very pleased about.
Fly.io
In June, the cost of services hosted on Fly.io was $10 lower than in May, which I’m also very pleased about. The services and their sizes did not change in June.
- Total cost: $388.56
Here’s a breakdown of the services currently in use:
| Name | Type | RAM | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| push | shared-cpu-1x | 512MB | 2 machines |
| web | shared-cpu-2x | 1024MB | 2 machines |
| api | shared-cpu-4x | 2048MB | 2 machines |
| jobs | shared-cpu-4x | 2048MB | 2 machines |
| proxy | shared-cpu-2x | 512MB | 2 machines |
| redis | shared-cpu-2x | 1024MB | 1 machine |
| database | performance-2x | 8192MB | 2 machines |
OpenAI
OpenAI is used on Vernissage to generate photo descriptions and suggest relevant tags.
- Total tokens used: 428,680
- Total requests: 524
- Total cost: $1.14
The cost remains relatively low, while still helping improve the accessibility of photos shared across the platform.
Donations
Thank you very much for all your contributions. It is only thanks to this support that the platform can continue operating in its current form, and it gives me a little more peace of mind when it comes to maintaining it.
- Patreon contributions: $164.88
- Stripe contributions: $25.00
In June, the total cost of maintaining the service was $437.77. This is a significant amount, and this time almost half of it was covered by donations. At the moment, we have 648 registered users, which means almost 40 new accounts, and 99 of them were active last month.
I would like to ask every new user (and not only new users) to consider supporting the platform if they are not doing so already. This is the only way to give this place a greater chance of continuing to exist.
Thank you again to everyone who supports the project. Thanks to your contributions, the service can continue to operate exactly as it does today.
— Marcin Czachurski