I have heard estimates from others about the cost of running their sites. Some of them seem way high to me.
Our hosting is pretty good quality and cost about $600 a year. You can get crappy hosting for a lot less as low as $10/month. I spring for better hosting because I like pages that load quickly, and so does google.
I also pay $10 a year for the domain name nyskiblog.com. "It's GOLD Jerry! GOLD!"
I've tried to cover those costs with advertising and now with the new forum, we are actually coming close, TBD. It has a much better advertising setup than Nabble did.
Please disable your ad blockers.
The big cost, outside of all this is the cost of producing content for the front page. Lift tickets and gas and in some cases lodging. That's way more than $600. But I'd spend a lot of that money even if I didn't run a blog.
I have had some big one-time expenses. When we moved to a responsive design (looks good on a phone) a few years ago that required a lot of development. Something I can't do. It was probably $10k, but I negotiated with a guy who works for me professionally, and he charged me $2000. That hurt, and also had to be explained to the MRS, but it was necessary to enter the modern age. There have been a few other one time costs over the years.
The REAL cost is my time. The hours are high and they pay is probably negative.
