A big part of the cost comes from data transfer (~$250/m).The notification emails you receive are sent by SES.Due to its cost, we only activate it when websites reach a big traffic peaks. Elastic Beanstalk helps us scaling automatically depending on traffic and during peak times.You can read the details of the setup here.RDS is used for the database(s), S3 to host images, and EC2 for the servers.We use Amazon Web Services (~$475/month):
Transparency & honesty are and will always be my main priorities! That's why I publish a full detailed budget here.Īfter running into lots of scalability issues and going through multiple iterations of infrastructure, we're now proud to say that we have a pretty robust architecture that corresponds to our needs! We organize giveaways with the help of volunteers, but I also sometimes buy prizes and pay shipping fees using Patreon funds. Organize events to thank our communities. Though most prizes are handcrafted, I still need to pay for the material used to make them, and craft products can be expensive. It sounds expensive, but we have a lot of traffic, which requires us to pay for a very good server and lots of bandwidth.Ĭover the costs of the rewards. Our servers cost approximately $375 / month. Most donations are used to pay for the servers. And more? I'm currently working with various mobile games lovers to help them open more similar websites, under Circles.2020 - April 5th - AC joins the family! A new community for Animal Crossing: New Horizons players.
It's the first of our sites to focus on a license first, rather than a game.
I couldn't imagine that my little project could get this big so fast.
2016 - June 20th - MagiCircles development starts: a full-featured web framework to create database and community websites.2015 - August 2nd - fr.glstarted as a proof of concept that database and communities for mobile games could be extended to other games.It's now fully managed by its own team and I don't work on it anymore (besides financial and advising)! I'm so proud that the project took its own path! 2015 - February 2nd - School Idol Tomodachiwas started as a side project.We take into account your lifetime support and every time you reach a certain milestone, you'll get more and more rewards. Can't donate much every month but still want the higher tier rewards?