Re: Live shows at HurricaneCity ending
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Chris in Tampa on 3/18/2013, 3:12 am
Thankfully my site doesn't cost much to run and manage. Around $100 a year and it pretty much runs itself. (My host lets me operate my site in a manner that no other site I see would allow for anywhere close to a price like $82.23 per year for hosting.) Hopefully by the end of the year even the recon system will be pretty much hands off as I rewrite it to work better. I've stayed away from the demanding stuff so it is little to no work after the development part is done. I don't have to have a studio to create content constantly, and monitor all sorts of things, so I have not needed donations. I get a lot of money from my homeowner's association to run their website and I live at home so even if I had to ever start paying 4 or 5 times as much hosting costs I would not need donations for a long time to come. I have not put ads on my tropical sites because I have not had to. But if I ever really needed to, I would. You have to do what you have to in order to be able to deliver a product and not lose money doing so. No one really likes ads, but if there were no ads there would be pretty much nothing on the Internet. Or, what was would be funded through some other means, like how I fund my tropical site. At least Google ads are relevant and non obtrusive. I really hate it when major sites have popup ads or ads that cover the entire page until you click on them to collapse them. They are the ones that can most afford to have non obtrusive ads.
CaneTalk was loosely based on a message board I built a long time ago so the development did not take too long on it. Jim pays the hosting cost of it too.
If anyone can, by all means donate to HurricaneCity as Jim is the one that has expenses for all the equipment he uses and all the time it takes to do everything. Even without live shows, there is still a lot of work. No amount of money could ever make me compile a database of statistics on cities like he has. I would go insane! I have a rule, if a computer couldn't do it without a human inputting the difficult stuff, I would never attempt it. That is why I only do things on my site that a computer can do. Just a whole bunch of "if" and "else" statements that run by itself all the time. That way if I'm not paying attention, a storm could come and go without me realizing it and everything would still work pretty well. |
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