Merry Christmas to Paul

I think now would be a great time to subscribe for 2024. I can only imagine the duress his illness has created.

My next click is to donate. Would be great if there were 50 more posts on this thread to donate for this year.

Done - Thanks Paul, and all the mods and great posters.
 
hnkcolumbia said:
Thinking about donating ....does anyone know what the yearly budget is to run the site?
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Not sure. I never thought to ask. The fact that he has never charged in 25 years and a lot of that time he was doing all the tech stuff himself I kinda just see it as donating to something most of us use every day for free. And the fact that he has pancreatic cancer right now no matter how much he’s raised he’s given much more to us through this site than to him
 
hnkcolumbia said:
Thinking about donating ....does anyone know what the yearly budget is to run the site?
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Hank … there is no minimum or maximum donation. If anyone regularly visits Redfan then it is reasonable that they donate some amount to defray operating costs.

I assure you that Paul has lost money and spent incalculable hours of work operating this site because it has been his labor of love.
 
hnkcolumbia said:
Thinking about donating ....does anyone know what the yearly budget is to run the site?
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Hank, there are hosting costs for the servers and bandwidth to support hundreds of concurrent users, domain registration fees, and software and maintenance fees for the software that powers the site. Imagineball the hours paul puts in for tech support, debugging, and updates, not to mention intervening when the place becomes a zoo. Forgetting about the enormous amount of labor, and volunteer mods, this site could easily cost $25,000 per year in hard costs especially if it is hosted on servers Paul owns.

This is basically an educated guess. My company eliminated most of our services and used ibm hosting services instead.
 
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Beasts of the East said:
Hank, there are hosting costs for the servers and bandwidth to support hundreds of concurrent users, domain registration fees, and software and maintenance fees for the software that powers the site. Imagineball the hours paul puts in for tech support, debugging, and updates, not to mention intervening when the place becomes a zoo. Forgetting about the enormous amount of labor, and volunteer mods, this site could easily cost $25,000 per year in hard costs especially if it is hosted on servers Paul owns.
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Would it be possible for someone to put something together with how much has been donated for the year that gets updated? We can have the $25,000 as a goal.
 
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