What Does This Cost?

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[quote]ephrem wrote:
RSGZ wrote:
Kreal7 wrote:
VTBalla34 wrote:
lol you really go onto a business’s website and ask them to divulge their marketing strategy & business plan to some fucking random Level 0? My god there should be an IQ test to use the interwebz.

Is this a joke thread to try and give Artem a run for his money at dumbest thread of the night?

Is a 2009 member allowed to call another 2009 member a fucking moron? If so, I would like to invoke my privilege!

Wow…unnecessary.

It’s not as much as people think to maintain a site. A domain does not cost much if you get one that is not already owned by someone (kind of rare for a good one). If you find one you like at godaddy it’s around $10. For good hosting assuming your site doesn’t get too much traffic it is around $10-$50 a month. It varies because some hosts will complain when you start getting any traffic and make you pay for more bandwidth. Once you get a huge amount of traffic prices can shoot up.

As far as what they pay webmasters, writers, or any contributors here I have no idea. Their webmasters are nothing special though.

You sir, truly have no idea in that case.

They host everything themselves, first and foremost, have a whole range of domains leading to the site and have a team that is actually pretty fucking good at what they do - it’s easy to sit on the other end and have no idea how these things work.

…indeed. A few years ago it was said that this site cost the company a cool million a year to run. I can imagine, with all the upgrades and extras we get, it’s more than that now…

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1 mil per year. an answer! end thread.

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[quote]younggully wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
younggully wrote:

Unreal, let me rephrase the question…what does a webite of this size cost to operate and maintain? Is that simple enough for ya?

Why Slim?

You wanna start your own “how to troll the internets” webpage?

Slim? Do you have pics? I have one up…I’m not slim ‘anymore’[/quote]

Uh, yeah detective I do have pictures.

Although I will admit under this screen name you are not a douche at all…

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[quote]younggully wrote:

Slim? Do you have pics? I have one up…I’m not slim ‘anymore’[/quote]

If that is really you in your avatar then I’m Donald Sutherland…

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Last year cost $238,394.03 and increasing yearly.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
younggully wrote:
countingbeans wrote:
younggully wrote:

Unreal, let me rephrase the question…what does a webite of this size cost to operate and maintain? Is that simple enough for ya?

Why Slim?

You wanna start your own “how to troll the internets” webpage?

Slim? Do you have pics? I have one up…I’m not slim ‘anymore’

Uh, yeah detective I do have pictures.

Although I will admit under this screen name you are not a douche at all…[/quote]

Just saw them…no wonder you’re hostile.

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[quote]younggully wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what does a site like this cost to maintain? Per month. Is it easy? hard? Including hosting, updating, server space and all. Not including the store. Again, just curious.[/quote]

I’ll give you a serious answer just for fun. I’m also rather bored today.

I wrote out a long explanation with traffic numbers and all. However it’s probably useless to you.

I’ll put the number around $1500-$2000 a month. If you want my explanation for this let me know.