Site costs

Nick Halbrook asked a question in the Guestbook about what my costs are in running this site.

Since he asked: I pay $15/mo for web hosting, $39/mo for stream hosting, and around $40/mo for my DSL connection. So I guess the site costs me something like $94 per month to run. I do take advantage of the DSL connection for other things, but the site makes it a necessity.

I'm getting some ad revenues and some donations here and there that help to offset these costs. (In case anyone's wondering, I've never turned a profit, except for one month when I got a very generous anonymous donation -- but whatever profit I made that month was eaten up in the next month or two.) I could probably be more aggressive in terms of looking for ads or sponsors, but I'm happy with things the way they are. Also, my life being what it is (full-time job, 3 young kids, grad school on hold) I don't have time to update as often as I would like.

So, as I have said before, while donations are certainly greatly appreciated, the idea is that this site should be free to listen to, and no one should feel that they're under any obligation to donate.

If I ever turn a profit (yeah, right!) I'll have to figure out how to get the profits back in the hands of the artists whose music I play.

If anyone has any questions about this, please let me know.

Best wishes,

John