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Out of intererest, what are the financial costs of running the site?

I know the biggest non-financial cost is the time volunteered by all the admins and volunteers of course, for which thanks!
 
inquisitive_chap said:
Out of intererest, what are the financial costs of running the site?
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Basically three things:

Cost of hosting (bandwidth, disc space, hardware to run it on - the more popular you are the more it costs - annual cost
Domain name - without it you're invisible - annual cost
Forum software - it may be free, more likely it has an annual cost
 
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When did I last donate ? Have done several times.
 
Sorry, we don't choose to share that info.
The figure mentioned by Cobra originally in the BMAC site (£900) has been updated slightly since his demise, but was intended to cover the gap between advertising income and approximate hosting-only. It costs a good amount more than that to run TP.

Things that Jason missed out/wasn't sure of
- software licences
- various security-related costs and domain protections
- ICO registration
- accountancy costs (kept to a minimum as I do it myself)
- annual HMRC & Co House returns costs (software costs but would be more if I didn't do the number crunching myself)
- corporation tax

plus we try to squirrel some away as a reserve to cover all the costs for a number of future years in case all income dries up. Hence we can say that the site (at present) is safe for at least 5 years into the future, financially.

As an aside, the effort involved probably comes to easily 10-15 hours a week excluding the many hours the moderators put in, which are absolutely essential these days on a site like this. Then there's the stress involved when the occasional person decides to threaten legal proceedings over a post they don't like - we've had two in the last year that I can think of which required some hours of mediation and faffing around with threads and posts etc to resolve when we owners were directly threatened.
 
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When did I last donate ? Have done several times.
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It's been noted Allen, many thanks, but I'm a bit pushed at present to look through the BMAC site to check - maybe later today and I'll PM you. Suffice to say we are really grateful for every donation as and when people feel; inclined.
 
Is there any difference in donation method in terms of fees you pay? IE. Do you have a preferred method of donation?
 
inquisitive_chap said:
Is there any difference in donation method in terms of fees you pay?
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