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Hi Djangonauts,

I've had a thought in a long time, which is I should donate to Django, I just never got around to do it. Finally I made that thought a reality.

I've been using Django for probably 4-5 years now, and it's become the main core in my projects, so I am really dependent on the project, and if it stopped being supported it would be a disaster. This is the most important backbone, and we pay for all other services, but not this one core project.

Djangos support goal is $500,000, and they are behind this years goal by nearly $100,000. I wish I could donate more at the time, but the day my company is earning more revenue I will upgrade my pledge to a higher number (now the thought is realized, it's much easier to increase).

Django has shown us over the years that they can be trusted with creating software, and they are really good at it. So if you think so as well, please visit the Donate Page and see if you get the same urge I did.

We are planning our holiday trip, and have decided to head to Utrecht!

We are searching for things we need to see, and are also planning a trip to Amsterdam, so we are searching for must-see things in both Utrecht, Amsterdam and nearby cities.

Our current bucket list is very short but includes:
Apple Museum Utrecht
Red Light District in Amsterdam

What are your recommendations?
Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

I just joined the CachyOS hype today, and I must say I’ve been on the verge of switching for a long time.
Adult life has gotten to me, and my PC was just in the corner sitting and rotting.
Today everything changed, I tried to install CachyOS expecting hell to come lose, but no.

Everything I tried just worked, and much better than on Windows.
I like to play Cities Skylines 2, and on Windows my PC chugs at it, and a good bit also, but in Cachy it’s surprisingly smooth, and no crashes!

I must brag to my colleagues about this on Monday!

Hi Hetzner,

Thank you for your recent price increases. You made me look other ways, and I actually took my consumption into consideration.

I finally looked at my usage numbers, and realized most of my usage is just overhead.

For context I used to have a Kubernetes cluster in Hetzner Cloud, with 3 control planes and 6 workers, I figured I needed that for reliability, and for "being sure".
I looked at the utilization over time, and realized I could probably go for less.

So now I tried to look other ways, and I actually figured out I could host my app at Render instead for around half the price, which I did. And in the same round I also elminated a addon I bought through Sidero to go with Kubernetes on "easy mode".

So in total I scaled my total cloud bill from €340 to around €130, which I get to save in my pockets every month!

Thank you for you excellent work, and I appreciate it.
If you never raised your prices, I would have kept paying and losing money I could actually save instead.
And now I sleep like a baby because suddenly I am not the manager of the servers.

Vi kørte frem og tilbage på Storebælt her i lørdags og betalte med Pay by Plate, og der er hverken blevet trukket noget eller kommet en kvittering online.

Er der andre der har oplevet det?

Can we take a minute and talk about the pricing increases that occurred overnight? I am only using Cloud instances, but I can see that it would make better sense to use dedicated now.

You have increased the CCX23 from 31.49 EUR to 85.99 EUR, an increase of 173%. I get that everything is more expensive now, but how can you seriously justify a near 200% price increase?

I might as well just go to Amazon or Google now with these price increases. I hold on to my servers as long as I can, and whenever I need to upgrade further I might as well go to a bigger provider, because I can't justify these prices anymore.

I have made a little table with the price increases I could find on my own servers, keep in mind I only have servers in the Cloud so I cannot give prices for dedicated.

Server Type	Original Price	New Price	Price increase
CX23	3.99	5.49	37.5%
CPX22	7.99	19.49	143.9%
CAX11	4.49	5.99	33.4%
CCX13	15.99	42.99	168.8%
CCX23	31.49	85.99	173%

Hej I kloge hoveder,

Min kæreste (25) og jeg (26) kigger på skift af bank, vi har i dag Danske Bank som vi har været ok med, men synes at deres priser er lidt irriterende, og de er også lidt svære at rykke med hvis der endelig skulle være noget.

Vi har en lille virksomhed (under 500.000 i omsætning) ved siden af som vi selvfølgelig også gerne ville have med.

Vi har ikke det store forretningsomfang, og alle banker jeg kigger på når man tager erhverv er lidt uoverskuelige, så tænkte at jeg ville spørge jer til råds da der garanteret sidder en masse herinde som har stået i lignende situation.

Vi har pt. et billån, som jeg ikke tænker er det smarteste at rykke da renten er rimelig lav.

Så kommer det store spørgsmål, hvilken bank vil i anbefale?