How much does it cost to run Askaboutmoney?

[dubgem]

My small donation in the pot too, glad to support your good work, many thanks

 

[Vanilla]

Might be an idea to post the usernames so we know you have recieved the money.

Wouldn't be possible since people, I presume, have and will donate via their 'real name' account or paypal which won't show up as username unless they deliberately add a message.

 

[pudds]

small offering made wish it could have been more.

 

[MugsGame]

£80 excl VAT sounds shockingly high for a site with about 11K unique visits (?) per month.

AAM is a lot busier than that (even discounting for unique visitors).

Im currently running a website on a $10 (7.50 EUR) VPS pm and i do backups myself all it costs is 7.50 incl. VAT a month. That's with 7K unique visits pm according to google analytics.

Im not exactly sure what the site involves but 2 grand a year to run a forum is absolutely mind-boggling. Never heard of it in my life.

there just has to be a better option than spending €2.5 for a forum.

AAM has had a varied hosting history, including third party forum sites, shared server, dedicated server, and now a fully managed service from forum specialists.

AAM does not have any staff. Brendan has in the past relied on knowledgable technical volunteers from the community, but they are not always available when problems arise (e.g. repeated power and hardware failures leading to disk corruption), particularly during the working day.

Managed hosting with competent staff is expensive. I can think of a number of instances where "professionals" paid to perform specific maintenance actually broke AAM. It's worth paying for backups to be done properly. Even where backups are supposedly included in the service, it hasn't always meant they were being carried out!

 

[Scotsgirl]

Bit broke at the moment Brendan, but will gladly be making a donation at the end of the month.

Scotsgirl