Very Curious

[Batleth]

Gotta get a good server to meet the demands of your users and their activity. Get enough bandwidth to hold you over for the month. Buy some domain names. Pay for daily server backup, just never know and don't want to loose your whole site over something stupid. Pay for vB and some of the plugins we use. It all adds up pretty fast.

Since Nick has so many forum sites, we do get some discounts for some of the above. Google ads help a little, but you can't count on their 1-4 dollars a day to really hold you over. So yeah, this is why we require a donation in the form of extras to your accounts like sigs and extra PM space. It really does help when you are forking over hundreds of dollars a month to just stay online. Though we do our best to provide as free as possible site. We have it set up so those that can and willing can help us out with donation to keep us going. Those that can't help, don't have to.