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Now I've halved it... just under 2 months.
But I need to update the accounts spreadsheet thing I'm using, it's a week out of date and we've received £80 in donations in the last hour. Hmmm... well that will make it just about 2 months.
T-Shirts would take care of it. The notion I had was that if we could sell 500 shirts we'd have the potential to make £2,500 if we did it pretty efficiently (£5 per shirt at around £12 per shirt, with the £2 going to the designer, and a £5 base price of the shirt and P&P would be extra). And I was thinking this would fund hardware.
But I've spoken to Clefty and hardware isn't the issue... it's bandwidth and rackspace. Hosting in the UK is expensive.
The cost of the extra server isn't anywhere near as severe as the cost of buying hardware and doing it in the UK.
Anyhow, now the T-Shirts will be used to save our arse.
I'd much rather sell you something you want, and have that pay for the server, than have you give money and feel that you've received nothing tangible from it.
That said... the idea of lots of people giving a little is a very good one. We'd need at least every regular user (if you are registered and log in daily) giving £1 per month to make it self-sustaining.
BTW... looking at server loads now, it's very nice... backend server not bothered at all and trundling along... front end server busy but nothing critical at all, looks quite merry.