It is now the end of the first calendar month since the scriptbin Patreon was launched and the Support scriptbin page has been updated with a the first month's received support, which can be compared to the monthly expenses. These numbers will be updated around the turn of every new month for the benefit of people who only wish to contribute to help cover the costs.

Some people may wonder: why list the cost each month, isn't it pretty much constant? Much of the time, yes. Most months will see similar expenses, but some prices will rise, there may be additional outlays over time and there may also be periodic additional costs like for TLS certificates or domain names, which are paid for years in advance. If the history had gone two months back, a raise in the base cost would also have been seen. Add to this that part of the costs are in Euro and part in US Dollar, two currencies that are pretty much at par right now but that have been wildly different over time.