$311 for dedicated hosting a year. That also includes the domain now that I transferred it.So, how much does it cost to run this forum? I’m curious.
The big expense was the email hosting. I pay about $100 a month for that right now. It was going to be a few thousand dollars every month.
Up north and personal pays about $100 a month for our search function to be hosted on his server.
I also pay for different add-ons and memberships for add ons. And support with the forum software. I also still pay for updates.
The initial cost for the forum software was about $1,000 and I also paid for the additional removal of their trademark. We are running xenforo.
And that's pretty much it. The rest of it is me and the other mods time. And of course the members who contribute great content to our forum.
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