What does it cost to run a website?

[Traffic]

So, what's it cost to run an outfit like this?

> Admin and Moderator Salaries & Benefits?
> Back-office support staff?
> Software costs?
> Server costs?
> Hosting and/or Bandwidth?
> Royalties?
> Advertising, Marketing and Promotions costs?

Y'all might want to start charging for membership or maybe adding some banner adds.

[MaximumBarnes]

Travel, order in lunches, syrup and CO2, dump drunk. You factor it all together and it gets expensive.

[ToY]

phpBB is free, so no costs there.

Put up some google ads and we'll click on it :)

[VoodooChi|d]

phpBB is free, so no costs there.

Put up some google ads and we'll click on it :)

You gotta be careful with that... a previous forum I was on got banned from adsense (the google ads thing) because people clicked too often...

[tx 3 putt]

Don't cheat yourself on the hooker / escort budget.

Double up on the midgets also.

[Gehrig]

Actually, I'd be interested to know what it costs to run this place. Pancho's not going to go all Hornfans on us and keep that a secret is he?

[blacklab]

I've been thinking about posting about this and this is as good a place as any.

I already have a server up and running so adding this was no problem. I would normally charge $200 a year for a site like this.

I registered the domain which was $8 and my only out of pocket expense.

phpBB and the chat software were free. I've taken about 5 hours total setting up the site, normally I'd charge about $75 an hour for that.

I pay for .5 MB/sec in my rack. Last month I averaged .15 MB/sec. Since this site went up I am now averaging .33 MB/sec. If I go over .5 MB/sec it's going to cost me $150 a month.

If we get busier we will need to goto vBulliten software which costs $160.

So for now I'm happy to host for free. If the bandwidth goes up I'll need to do something. If I put google adds on here we will need to shutdown 3:16 for a while. I will bring it back after we are approved.

[Gehrig]

Well, if you guys ever decide that the costs are getting out of control, let's do a fundraiser. Seriously.

[staley]

Well, if you guys ever decide that the costs are getting out of control, let's do a fundraiser. Seriously.

No doubt. I'm sure we'll all be happy to help keep this place open, I sure will.

[PGW]

I've been thinking about posting about this and this is as good a place as any.

I already have a server up and running so adding this was no problem. I would normally charge $200 a year for a site like this.

I registered the domain which was $8 and my only out of pocket expense.

phpBB and the chat software were free. I've taken about 5 hours total setting up the site, normally I'd charge about $75 an hour for that.

I pay for .5 MB/sec in my rack. Last month I averaged .15 MB/sec. Since this site went up I am now averaging .33 MB/sec. If I go over .5 MB/sec it's going to cost me $150 a month.

If we get busier we will need to goto vBulliten software which costs $160.

So for now I'm happy to host for free. If the bandwidth goes up I'll need to do something. If I put google adds on here we will need to shutdown 3:16 for a while. I will bring it back after we are approved.


We could set up 3:16 as a password protected forum which requires a password to get in, that way you have exact control over who gets in. I don't know if phpbb has this feature but I know others do.

[Gehrig]

php-Nuke and phpBB allow for password protected rooms. I post on a couple of cigar boards that do that for their NSFW rooms.

[PGW]

php-Nuke and phpBB allow for password protected rooms. I post on a couple of cigar boards that do that for their NSFW rooms.

Cigar boards!?!?!!? AHAHAHAHAH!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[ToY]

Also, I think Adsense frowns over adult content (Means mac cant go posting xxx pics in threads ;) )

These forums are more cpu intensive than bandwidth intensive, but I think we're good on the cpu side.

[The Tower]

Well, if you guys ever decide that the costs are getting out of control, let's do a fundraiser. Seriously.

mac, will you sell yourself to the highest bidder?

[Gehrig]

Well, if you guys ever decide that the costs are getting out of control, let's do a fundraiser. Seriously.

mac, will you sell yourself to the highest bidder?

I already did that.

[MikeUT00]

thanks for setting this up.