[Darth-Apple]

Unless you're going the free forum hosting route, the costs of running a forum can go through the roof pretty quickly. With cheap hosting and a decent domain provider, you should be able to get hosting + a domain for around $70/year, which isn't bad, but that doesn't include any costs for premium themes, plugins, etc...

Personally, I'm budgeting around $100/year for the hosting + the domain, and an additional $50-60/month for plugins and themes. ($17 spent already for 2014 )

What do you typically budget for your forums and websites?

[spork985]

$100/year? Are you kidding? I'm paying around $2400/year now.

[Darth-Apple]

$100/year? Are you kidding? I'm paying around $2400/year now.

O.O

[Thomas]

Probably $340 a year for domains and my mediatemple hosting

[Guardian]

I used to spend a few hundred but now I've let my sites sit idle and only pay $31 per year. I've got a great host!

[brian51]

I just wanted to thank all of you guys for supporting these types of sites for the members enjoyment

[Darth-Apple]

I used to spend a few hundred but now I've let my sites sit idle and only pay $31 per year. I've got a great host!

That's great! You still on Spork's host? 

I've got everything on one VPS now I suppose and it works good. I've got a separate VPS for chatcave.me. I've actually still got it up and running believe it or not. Wish that one ran for 31/month. Unfortunately that one's a little more expensive. 

Oh, and on a side note, what ended up becoming of someimage? 

[Guardian]

That's great! You still on Spork's host? 

I've got everything on one VPS now I suppose and it works good. I've got a separate VPS for chatcave.me. I've actually still got it up and running believe it or not. Wish that one ran for 31/month. Unfortunately that one's a little more expensive. 

Oh, and on a side note, what ended up becoming of someimage? 

Yeah, it's awesome. Haven't noticed any downtime issues, great pricing, serves my needs exactly.

PM'ing you...

[SpookyZalost]

you know I've thought about paying for the right to use ZalostNeo.Technology before as a place to host my blog but this definitely gives me a good general idea on how much a website costs to own and run.

how do you guys typically pay to run these sites?
Advertisements?
Side jobs?
Donation drives?
etc.

[Thomas]

Still the same, $340. My mediatemple hosting has been incredible so far. Absolutely no downtime issues ever.

[SpookyZalost]

$0, but I'm not running a forum or a major website.

I might take neocities up on their $5 a month offer though for a bandwidth increase depending on how big I get modding things...
my next project?
using some stuff I scavenged from a broken coffee maker to make a brand new one... maybe.

[Guardian]

using some stuff I scavenged from a broken coffee maker to make a brand new one... maybe.

That would be cool, very thrifty. The mustachian and zero-waste communities would love it.

[Darth-Apple]

$0, but I'm not running a forum or a major website.

I might take neocities up on their $5 a month offer though for a bandwidth increase depending on how big I get modding things...
my next project?
using some stuff I scavenged from a broken coffee maker to make a brand new one... maybe.

You should check out Ramnode. $5/month gets you a decent little VPS with 2+TB of bandwidth and total control over your server.

[SpookyZalost]

shoot, think I can get them to become my ISP? lol.

comcast limiting me to 1tb of bandwidth wouldn't be an issue but family... you know?

[Darth-Apple]

I’m not too much of a fan of Comcast to be honest... they definitely aren’t the most consumer friendly company in existence...

[SpookyZalost]

true, but they're the only option if yiou want more than 0.8mbps upload right now :\