Even a small site can make enough from things like google ads to cover shared hosting costs for a year. If not, you can just ask your users for a nominal donation via paypal.
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I have never asked for donations from my members nor do I use ads. I don't mind having to pay for hosting. However I don't have to because I work for a hosting company so that saves some of the issues that I have to encounter.
Hi all , i' m Pablo from Argentina , living in Brno , i have to say I like what I read and seems amazing toughts , and I Tought I had a Gold mine with 10000 users for the Cirtoen C4 Club !
I'm just earning money from another site for a friends , that allow me to have a Reseller plan with 18 more sites for free or have some earning (300 Usd a year or so) , I'm starting to setting up Google Adsense ("hidden"), a month ago , not set up yet , No selling adspace yet , no adclicks or adviews.
Setting up the Donation Mod after fully installing 3.1.7pl next months .
We dont care about analyzing about adblockers and such yet. The little money we generate is mainly spent for the meeting I work for free , as I started this forum with 3 colleages back in 2008.
I' m doing all the PHP-stuff and using only good phpbb customizations. Maybe some day it will generate more money then we can spend, but for the time being almost everything is invested into the site.
the site is [removed] , we have a FB page related with 11K Likes, Twitter and pinterest for the meeting , updates and so on .
The cost of the ads is associated with visitors IP origin (country, even the city) and keywords of your topics. If you write about casinos, lawyers, or anything else where are money, then you'll get more money than if the topics are for example about a charity. As well, if your visitors are coming from richer and bigger countries where ads are more expensive because of the competition, then you will get paid more.
May I ask you? Earns Facebook enough? Because this is the biggest community website, a kinda forum that I know and they've got more problems with amount of data per user, while anybody can be uploading as much wants and even stream videos, or tons of images. Possibly, they don't thrive and didn't get rich on Indians, or Africa, but more probably it's USA, EU and Japan...