Hi,
I have been running a site for about 18 months now,its a simple vBulletin forum and I am very happy with the progress.I am running it as a hobby and I enjoy it so I am happy to cover the cost of running the site.The costs at the moment are minimum,I have paid for my vBulletin license so its basically just hosting which is about 13 euro a month.
Now one thing concerns me,the site is really taken off and while I am happy to cover the costs for the moment I wounder how far away I am from these costs increasing and me having to revaluation the situation.I have never had adds or anything like that on the site but I may have to look at this again.
What has me concerned is the year on year growth is very good,I no this is a good problem to have but I would like to have a plan in place encase the worst happens and I have to start making some cash from the site.
If anybody has any suggestions for me I would be very grateful as this is just a hobby for me,I am no techie and have learned this stuff as I go.
Here are some stats from the site (these firures are from Setp so have gone up a bit since)..
In Sept I had over 8,000 Unique visitors,in Sep 07 this was 2068.This is a increase of over 300% year on year.
The Bandwidth used up in Sept 08 was 12.29 GB and in Sept 07 it was only 2.83 GB.
4,031701 hits in Sept 08 and only 861187 12 months ago.
Average of 720 visits per day,12 months ago this was 172.This was also a massive increase of 318% year on year
Most users ever online was 182
The site has over 2,000 members with just over 100,000 posts.
I have been running a site for about 18 months now,its a simple vBulletin forum and I am very happy with the progress.I am running it as a hobby and I enjoy it so I am happy to cover the cost of running the site.The costs at the moment are minimum,I have paid for my vBulletin license so its basically just hosting which is about 13 euro a month.
Now one thing concerns me,the site is really taken off and while I am happy to cover the costs for the moment I wounder how far away I am from these costs increasing and me having to revaluation the situation.I have never had adds or anything like that on the site but I may have to look at this again.
What has me concerned is the year on year growth is very good,I no this is a good problem to have but I would like to have a plan in place encase the worst happens and I have to start making some cash from the site.
If anybody has any suggestions for me I would be very grateful as this is just a hobby for me,I am no techie and have learned this stuff as I go.
Here are some stats from the site (these firures are from Setp so have gone up a bit since)..
In Sept I had over 8,000 Unique visitors,in Sep 07 this was 2068.This is a increase of over 300% year on year.
The Bandwidth used up in Sept 08 was 12.29 GB and in Sept 07 it was only 2.83 GB.
4,031701 hits in Sept 08 and only 861187 12 months ago.
Average of 720 visits per day,12 months ago this was 172.This was also a massive increase of 318% year on year
Most users ever online was 182
The site has over 2,000 members with just over 100,000 posts.