We have around 4,000 active members, and up to 10,000 guests, right?
Between the two we should easily be able to raise enough money to move to a cloud.
Is the $200/month? Or what? $2,400/year to run CP. I wonder how much money Bingo gets from ads.
Cause $2,400/year is a steep cost.
There are a few options though. We could do a donation drive each year to raise funds that will help pay for the yearly cost, or we could do a raffle or something like that. Say someone donates a couple sets of tickets to a Flames game, and we raffle them off. I think we've done something like this before too.
Another thing is to put a image on the side that displays the monthly cost along with a donate button and how much money we still need. I think if people know they might put down a couple dollars to help out. Cause all it would take would be a couple dollars.
I like the idea of extra goodies for a paying member, but we also want to drive traffic to the server. More traffic equals more money from ads.
I also wonder if any of the big companies in Calgary such as Telus, Rogers, Shaw, etc, etc would pay more for targeted advertising. I know Techcruch has advertisement slots available to buy and they sell them for thousands of dollars. Sure we don't get the traffic they get, but we still do pretty good.
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