03-10-2024, 06:23 AM
I just checked for the updated prices on multi-year server costs, seeing as how we're going to exceed our goal of ~$300.00 this year. Here's the basic rundown for costs:
Business Plan (this rents us the server space which we use for our wiki and forums and such)
1 Year: $263.88
2 Year: $503.76
3 Year: $719.64
.COM Domain Renew (this gives us the static www.qb64phoenix.com domain name for folks to click and find us)
1 Year: $22.99
2 Year: $45.98
3 Year: $68.97
5 Year: $114.95
Renew: Private Registration for Domain Name (helps prevent spam and such and keeps server info private)
1 Year: $15.00
5 Year: $75.00
And we can pick and choose freely as these 3 components make up what we pay for, for the QB64PE forums and wiki here.
The .COM Domain Renewal doesn't seem to save any $$$ if you pay for more than a single year, and neither does the Private Registration. Personally, I'd put those down at the bottom of our list of priorities to spend extra money on, in favor of attempting to get the discount prices for the server space itself.
At the moment, we're sitting at about $375.00 in donations. (Remember, amounts recieved are always a little smaller than amounts given as PayPal or Patreon take a small cut for their processing fees and such.) IF we can reach the $540.00 mark, I'll pay for us to get a 2-year server rental at $503 and then tack on the $23 domain name and $15 private registration.
There's still one check out which someone pledged to help pay for our costs, and we're sitting at approximately $375.00 in our funds already. That means we only need less than $165.00 to get the 2-year subscription instead of the 1-year subscription.
Anyone who still wants to donate, still has time, though any checks sent via the mail should probably be sent soon(tm) if they're going to get here in time to go on this years costs. From the time the first check was pledged, to when I recieved it, was about a week or so. If I'm going to manually renew the forums, I'll need to swap them off auto-pay (which is how they're currently set up for us), so I'd need to do that 2-3 days before the end of this month.
Anyone who doesn't get their donation in to me within the next two weeks (by 3/24/2024), will be pushing their luck with processing times and such things, so if any of you guys still want to chip in so we'll get that multi-year subscription, do it before then.
And that's basically the full state of our finances as of this moment in time.
Business Plan (this rents us the server space which we use for our wiki and forums and such)
1 Year: $263.88
2 Year: $503.76
3 Year: $719.64
.COM Domain Renew (this gives us the static www.qb64phoenix.com domain name for folks to click and find us)
1 Year: $22.99
2 Year: $45.98
3 Year: $68.97
5 Year: $114.95
Renew: Private Registration for Domain Name (helps prevent spam and such and keeps server info private)
1 Year: $15.00
5 Year: $75.00
And we can pick and choose freely as these 3 components make up what we pay for, for the QB64PE forums and wiki here.
The .COM Domain Renewal doesn't seem to save any $$$ if you pay for more than a single year, and neither does the Private Registration. Personally, I'd put those down at the bottom of our list of priorities to spend extra money on, in favor of attempting to get the discount prices for the server space itself.
At the moment, we're sitting at about $375.00 in donations. (Remember, amounts recieved are always a little smaller than amounts given as PayPal or Patreon take a small cut for their processing fees and such.) IF we can reach the $540.00 mark, I'll pay for us to get a 2-year server rental at $503 and then tack on the $23 domain name and $15 private registration.
There's still one check out which someone pledged to help pay for our costs, and we're sitting at approximately $375.00 in our funds already. That means we only need less than $165.00 to get the 2-year subscription instead of the 1-year subscription.
Anyone who still wants to donate, still has time, though any checks sent via the mail should probably be sent soon(tm) if they're going to get here in time to go on this years costs. From the time the first check was pledged, to when I recieved it, was about a week or so. If I'm going to manually renew the forums, I'll need to swap them off auto-pay (which is how they're currently set up for us), so I'd need to do that 2-3 days before the end of this month.
Anyone who doesn't get their donation in to me within the next two weeks (by 3/24/2024), will be pushing their luck with processing times and such things, so if any of you guys still want to chip in so we'll get that multi-year subscription, do it before then.
And that's basically the full state of our finances as of this moment in time.