The economics of North Stand Chat

[Bry Nylon]

A question for Bozza more than anybody else, but I thought I'd put it on here rather than as a PM as I thought others may be interested or have a contribution to make.

How much does it cost (broadly) to keep NSC up and running per year, and what proportion of that is generated via advertising, click-throughs, other revenue streams etc? Is NSC pretty solvent in the short to medium term, or will more money have to be found to keep it running in its current format?

If this isn't for public discussion, apologies and please delete the thread. Just interested, that's all.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I'm pretty sure Bozza posts the accounts monthly in one of the sub forums

 

[Bry Nylon]

I'm pretty sure Bozza posts the accounts monthly in one of the sub forums

I know that he did, and I had a look the other day but couldn't find it. Might just be me looking in the wrong place though.

 

[Bozza]

Always happy to help...

NSC's costs go up and down but tend to run in the region of £500-£700 per month for hosting. It dipped recently - for no reason I can easily identify - and is now rising again.

We're hosted on the Rackspace cloud so pay for the resources we use. In Rackspace speak this is 'Compute Cycles' - we get 10,000 included in our standing monthly payment. Beyond that we pay 1c per cycle and we've hit 90,000 in a month before.

Costs beyond that are a small bit for domain registration and Cloudflare for security protection.

Income is all about Google. When you're logged in there's a banner in the top right and two at the very bottom. They generate around 90% of NSC's income. Some earn for just being there and some for being clicked but Google control all of that.

The rest of what we earn comes from Amazon. Click our link and buy something and we earn a bit.

Month on month NSC earns a profit which is why we can make charitable donations, as well as helping other Albion related causes. We must have donated something like £4-5000 last year I think.

 

[Bozza]

Oh - and I take the mods out for food and all the beer they can drink from time to time. But they earn it.

 

[Fef]

Always happy to help...

NSC's costs go up and down but tend to run in the region of £500-£700 per month for hosting. It dipped recently - for no reason I can easily identify - and is now rising again.

We're hosted on the Rackspace cloud so pay for the resources we use. In Rackspace speak this is 'Compute Cycles' - we get 10,000 included in our standing monthly payment. Beyond that we pay 1c per cycle and we've hit 90,000 in a month before.

Costs beyond that are a small bit for domain registration and Cloudflare for security protection.

Income is all about Google. When you're logged in there's a banner in the top right and two at the very bottom. They generate around 90% of NSC's income. Some earn for just being there and some for being clicked but Google control all of that.

The rest of what we earn comes from Amazon. Click our link and buy something and we earn a bit.

Month on month NSC earns a profit which is why we can make charitable donations, as well as helping other Albion related causes. We must have donated something like £4-5000 last year I think.

Am I right in saying that Google do not allow you to actively ask website visitors to click on the ads to generate revenue?

(This is gonna get deleted, isn't it!)

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Oh - and I take the mods out for food and all the beer they can drink from time to time. But they earn it.

Photo from the last mod meeting.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Always happy to help...

NSC's costs go up and down but tend to run in the region of £500-£700 per month for hosting. It dipped recently - for no reason I can easily identify - and is now rising again.

We're hosted on the Rackspace cloud so pay for the resources we use. In Rackspace speak this is 'Compute Cycles' - we get 10,000 included in our standing monthly payment. Beyond that we pay 1c per cycle and we've hit 90,000 in a month before.

Costs beyond that are a small bit for domain registration and Cloudflare for security protection.

Income is all about Google. When you're logged in there's a banner in the top right and two at the very bottom. They generate around 90% of NSC's income. Some earn for just being there and some for being clicked but Google control all of that.

The rest of what we earn comes from Amazon. Click our link and buy something and we earn a bit.

Month on month NSC earns a profit which is why we can make charitable donations, as well as helping other Albion related causes. We must have donated something like £4-5000 last year I think.

Thank you.

 

[hitony]

Photo from the last mod meeting.

Frank, I sent you that photo in good faith it was for your personal use only!

 

[Bozza]

Am I right in saying that Google do not allow you to actively ask website visitors to click on the ads to generate revenue?

(This is gonna get deleted, isn't it!)

Absolutely correct, which is why I never would. Also: there's no need - the ads work just fine as they are.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Photo from the last mod meeting.

One of the mods isn't wearing a mask.

 

[hitony]

One of the mods isn't wearing a mask.

Go on, I will play..........so which one would that be?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Go on, I will play..........so which one would that be?

Giraffe

 

[hitony]

Giraffe

Funny enough I noticed that literally just after I posted to you

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Well the secret's out now. NSC is funded by the regular showing of Giraffe at traveling freak and pizza shows.


Funny old world.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Oh - and I take the mods out for food and all the beer they can drink from time to time. But they earn it.

If one of the other mods should perish, stick my name in the hat.

 

[hitony]

If one of the other mods should perish, stick my name in the hat.

It doesn't exactly work like that, also in the past, any potential new mod has to have an unblemished record, I've just checked yours .......... Opps!

 

[supaseagull]

Anyone who gives up there own time to help others is a legend in my eyes. Looking at the money and what comes in goes to show that it's not just a case of turning the site on, but theres loads going on behind the scenes we don't know about but which is vital to the running of the site . Well done to all of you who help.

 

[El Presidente]

Anyone who gives up there own time to help others is a legend in my eyes. Looking at the money and what comes in goes to show that it's not just a case of turning the site on, but theres loads going on behind the scenes we don't know about but which is vital to the running of the site . Well done to all of you who help.

That's very kind, but we do it for the uniform and the power. All the mods are ex traffic wardens.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Always happy to help...

NSC's costs go up and down but tend to run in the region of £500-£700 per month for hosting. It dipped recently - for no reason I can easily identify - and is now rising again.

We're hosted on the Rackspace cloud so pay for the resources we use. In Rackspace speak this is 'Compute Cycles' - we get 10,000 included in our standing monthly payment. Beyond that we pay 1c per cycle and we've hit 90,000 in a month before.

Costs beyond that are a small bit for domain registration and Cloudflare for security protection.

Income is all about Google. When you're logged in there's a banner in the top right and two at the very bottom. They generate around 90% of NSC's income. Some earn for just being there and some for being clicked but Google control all of that.

The rest of what we earn comes from Amazon. Click our link and buy something and we earn a bit.

Month on month NSC earns a profit which is why we can make charitable donations, as well as helping other Albion related causes. We must have donated something like £4-5000 last year I think.

So have i got this right,you have not dipped into the cup final cash yet?