Quote Originally Posted by kayakerinme View Post
On page 1 of this thread, attroll listed the costs for the software and such as $110 though he probably forgot something.

We are using the blazenet bandwidth for "free".

If I'm reading the newsletter correctly we need $1000/year to keep the site running.

So is the goal to cover the software costs (cover $110/year)? bandwidth reimbursement to whiteblaze ($900+)? break geocachingmaine.org onto its own server?
Asking for clarification - thank you!

And are these firm figures? Because somewhere (and I think in this thread) it implied it was an estimate, guesstimate or something which may not be firm. Before I start a project, I get the estimate and then firm figures. This is no different.

Another question - how many real members/users are there on this site? I see long lists of names but many have not signed on in the last year. It is not reasonable to do any business projection with bad data. To me, true research of member data is important. What is our usual and customary user base. I.E. We have x members - total on the books. X of those have been active in the last year. X of those have not been active in over 2 years. X of those have contributed to the site in some way (article, posting photos, etc.) or posted more than a dozen times. X of those are donating members. X of those have created a user profile.

Are we talking a 1000 real members here or more like 100 to 200 who will realistically share the cost of this web site?

I like the site, have enjoyed friends I have met on it and learned a lot from the site. My background just leads me to be cautious.