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sexual_sushi:
I just donated some money again, the goal is to donate $10 monthly or bimonthly and I'll post here when I do so hopefully people will see it and think about donating again.

Cheers
Shaun

gav240z:

--- Quote from: sexual_sushi on February 10, 2010, 07:37:51 AM ---I just donated some money again, the goal is to donate $10 monthly or bimonthly and I'll post here when I do so hopefully people will see it and think about donating again.

Cheers
Shaun

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Thanks mate, and thanks to everyone who donates. I really appreciate it. Just a reminder that web-hosting costs around $170 AU per month.

Google Adsense makes us about $20-$30 p/month and donations really do vary each month between $20 - $70 (its hard to gauge exactly how much since members often donate different amounts at random intervals).

Whilst our web-hosting is not the cheapest, I believe the service we get is worth the money. I've been through 2 other hosting companies previously (as well as others for friends / family / work etc...) and there is nothing worse than having a bad hosting company.

I'm not sure what our up-time has been over the past couple of years, but off the top of my head its been pretty good and a large part of that is due to our host providing reliable servers.

So yes I could probably save some money here and there on hosting, but for me its not worth the headache.

Bottom line I guess is that I'm willing to spend a little bit extra on web hosting, but I appreciate any contribution made. If you don't have money to spare, you can contribute in other ways.

- Refer / encourage a friend to join the site
- Write up a technical how to article that we can make a sticky post for other members
- Write up a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) post - to address all those same old questions we get when people join.
- Arrange discounts for other Auszcar.com members through your own business or a local business
- Take the time to say hi to new members and make them feel welcome
- Submit details for a featured member ride on the homepage - this really helps me save time :).
- Stroke my ego and send me thank you emails saying how much you love Auszcar.com (just kidding I get enough of those already).

You get the idea I hope anyway. 

FLEXZED:
hey shaun

thanks for the reminder

i just donated as well

Loui

zrevival:
Just a thought

I personally really enjoy the website and usually check it once a day - however i have my link set to go straight to the forums to look for new posts. This means that i completely miss the 'donation' link which is on the home page.

Quite simply - if the donation link was more 'in my face' then i would donate far more regulary to what is a terrific website, with a great bunch of regular members.

Maybe the donation link should also be on the forum pages as well as i would imagine that is where most of the regular members spend their time (made this assumtion without checking webstats)

Just a thought

 

Mr Camouflage:

--- Quote from: gav240z on February 10, 2010, 08:46:18 AM ---Thanks mate, and thanks to everyone who donates. I really appreciate it. Just a reminder that web-hosting costs around $170 AU per month.

Whilst our web-hosting is not the cheapest, I believe the service we get is worth the money. I've been through 2 other hosting companies previously (as well as others for friends / family / work etc...) and there is nothing worse than having a bad hosting company.


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Jebus that is expensive.  WA Z Register is hosted with AussieHQ for around $250 a year (1 gig disc space, 10gig traffic per month, cpanel), and I haven't had any problems with them and support is great. (They bought out the old host we were with who were bordering on incompetent).

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