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Originally Posted by teamchachi
To run it on EC2 we'd need to raise about $1500 to pay for a couple of high-CPU medium Linux instances, and then we'd be looking at ongoing costs in the $200 range for hourly costs, bandwidth, load balancing, additional instances during peak periods, elastic IPs, etc.
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So an extra 200 a month, plus the $1500 up front? Would it be possible to even put (dare I say it) more ads on here? I'm a complete noob with this sort of thing so I'm just curious. I know at Ultimate Guitar (on the actual tabs portion, not the forum...but it's still under the same site) they've got those interactive ad things that play...they're kinda aggravating but could a person just run those for a little while then once the server is paid off get rid of them?
Maybe we don't even need to do that...would people just look into the goodness of their hearts, and the fact that they are getting a great service here and donate? Those who do don't even need something special as far as I'm concerned. Sure it'd be neat to have, but if you're afraid of people getting uppity about it, is it really necessary? I'd be content in knowing I helped grow the place, however minimal my impact might be.