A member recently wrote me a rather rude email, saying that our hosting should cost no more than $9.99 per month with the likes of Godaddy, and accused me of all sorts of things in relation to this thread.
That would be all very well, if we had a wordpress blog and a few thousand visitors per day (the example he gave of his site).
We serve 50 million pageviews per month, and host the interactions of 3 million people. To do this, we run 4 dedicated servers, have additional storage and backups, memory upgrades, and unmetered bandwidth. You then have to pay the licence fees for all the software that runs on the servers too.
To give you an idea of costs, multiply these by 4 for the basic servers alone: http://www.quadranet.com/dedicated-servers/high-bandwidth/
Gav is at the top of his profession, and really knows what he is doing, so please do not contact either him or I with any server related messages.
A huge thank you to all those members who have upgraded their membership, and shown support for the site.
Nicola
Matriarch
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