Important!: PAYPAL Donations

Cire · Post by **Cire** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:14 am

Quick questions - What's the monthly cost to maintain the site? What's the amount of the average donation?

I'll soon be making a donation, and the answers to those questions will help me determine what I can reasonably contribute.

Indigo's a great piece of software . . . big thanks to Nick, all the exporter writers & the Indigo user community!

Cheers!

Big Fan · Post by **Big Fan** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:54 pm

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Post by **OnoSendai** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:00 pm

The hosting costs approx US$90 = NZ$125 per month.
The donations have totalled NZ$850, including paypal donations and direct credit etc..
Average donation is probably about NZ$40.

Big Fan · Post by **Big Fan** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:06 pm

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Post by **OnoSendai** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Well, I've paid one 3-month block = US$275

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:58 pm

OnoSendai wrote:The hosting costs approx US$90 = NZ$125 per month.

That's quite expensive...
Do you happen to know how much bandwidth the site uses per month?

Post by **OnoSendai** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:10 pm

About 100GB per month

manitwo · Post by **manitwo** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:23 pm

Post by **OnoSendai** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:25 pm

Yeah... the gallery does a lot of traffic

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:25 am

And we users are actually not limited by attachments amount and such... I think (hope?) the quality of service is worth it.

Cire · Post by **Cire** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:13 am

So when I make my donation, I need to keep in mind the currency difference? If I give NZ$125 through the PayPal account, only US$90 will be deducted from my credit card?

I ask mainly because it seems that I'm unable to change the currency type on the PayPal page.

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:38 am

phuuuuu.... 100GB Traffic for the Gallery isn't fun

just limit the possible upload format to .jpg so lazy guys like me HAVE TO convert

This Would save a lot of traffic!

eman7613 · Post by **eman7613** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:25 pm

i was under the impression that it was more O.O

The site i run is hosted by a company called hostmonster (just add a .com) and ive got 3000gigs of bandwidth a month and the cost for it (i believe paying for a year, i didn't buy the host) was a little over $220US with tax. There may be cheaper alternatives still, but this sounds a bit better then what is currently used.

Post by **OnoSendai** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:58 pm

Yes, well a lot of hosting companies *say* they provide effectively unlimited traffic, but in practice they don't. That was the case with dreamhost; they throttled us when traffic rose.

eman7613 · Post by **eman7613** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:45 am

OnoSendai wrote:Yes, well a lot of hosting companies *say* they provide effectively unlimited traffic, but in practice they don't. That was the case with dreamhost; they throttled us when traffic rose.

well, so far this month we've used 412.38 gbs of bandwidth, so they are good for us, and excellent service. just letting ya know.

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