A dollar a day? Hmmm…
My blog costs $60/yr for hosting, something like $15/yr for domain renewal. But I don’t get much traffic. If I used the bandwidth that BMEWS uses, or even the storage space…
Nice to know approximate costs if I ever start putting some real effort into my own blog.
As for PayPal, don’t get me started.
But now I feel bad. I haven’t donated in a long time. Last time I donated was when Mr. Christian was running BMEWS. Even then, PayPal sucked. I think I used the Amazon Honor System, which must be defunct because the link doesn’t, well, link.
get a PO box at a drop location, they are cheap enough. Mine costs $10 a year.
Nah, from the donations that we do get, almost all come in through PayPal. It’s only been once or thrice that I’ve been asked for the old home address.
I know I pay a bit more than average for the 1.5GB of space and 60GB of monthly data transfer, but we’re using most of it. And Hosting Matters is 100% reliable. Upgrading to 2.5GB and 100GB of bandwidth costs another $10/mo. Anything more than that, and it’s time to rent your own server, which goes for $140+/mo. Is this where I put in my rant about web crawlers and spiders? Bastard things eat bandwidth like mad. Hate ‘em.
I solved the space problem by killing a whole swarm of log files. Like I need monthly, daily, hourly usage numbers for 6 years, nations visiting stats, and all that jass. SNIP! And I got back half a gig.
Still, one of these days I am going to cull several years of old posts. Even with all the trimming I’ve done, this blog still goes back through most of 2004. Too much.
I will talk to my hubby - shoulda done a donation last year when the bucks were coming in (and should have done a lot more - or I wouldn’t be in the outer circle of hell right now over my Mom’s estate) - will send a donation (alas, I will go PEM and ask for the addy as we do not do PayPal anymore) - after I get my trust fund pennies. I promise - I am here everyday I should have left a tip at the door as I went out many, many times.
I have finally gotten most of what I wanted from the estate - and lots that I did not know existed - it is going to kill me but I must sort through each and every box (two trips, garage - no longer usable for a car). And pictures - well I think that will be a hard drive of their own. I have reached the point that what is left (after at least one more trip) - will be going to the auction house. Can’t take it in right now don’t have the $ to do anything.
But no, I won’t give out my home address to just anyone.
Hey Drew. Give my address out. I’ll take the donations!
(Mr. Burns rubs his hands together and says ‘Excellent’)
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