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Undertoad · 05-05-2005, 12:41 PM

I'm second-guessing what I said. In my estimation the Cellar requires approximately $120/month to operate correctly after its "transition" to co-location. $60 of it will be leased space and bandwidth, $60 will be the overall hardware costs which have always cropped up. In the recent past, tip jar donors, epecially one semi-anonymous benefactor, have covered these costs. The 2004 t-shirt money did help cover things.

I'm not including my own hours spent in system administration and such, which is really the bulk of the costs if one were actually paying to run a site. Hey it's a hobby. Also, past costs have been different (much higher) if one figured in the proportion of the T1 that it has taken up.

That's full disclosure. If we come up with ways to really eat more bandwidth, the costs would go up.

05-05-2005, 12:41 PM	#60
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I'm second-guessing what I said. In my estimation the Cellar requires approximately $120/month to operate correctly after its "transition" to co-location. $60 of it will be leased space and bandwidth, $60 will be the overall hardware costs which have always cropped up. In the recent past, tip jar donors, epecially one semi-anonymous benefactor, have covered these costs. The 2004 t-shirt money did help cover things. I'm not including my own hours spent in system administration and such, which is really the bulk of the costs if one were actually paying to run a site. Hey it's a hobby. Also, past costs have been different (much higher) if one figured in the proportion of the T1 that it has taken up. That's full disclosure. If we come up with ways to really eat more bandwidth, the costs would go up.