Cost of Mindboards?

[bungeshea]

Hi, I was just wondering how much Mindboards costs to setup and run.

[muntoo]

$0.00

For SourceForge? Depends on how you view it. Does their supporting forums give them popularity? Does this benefit negate their minimal costs of spending server time/data storage on forums?

[bungeshea]

I was mainly thinking about how much the domain name costs ( mindboards.net, blog.mindboards.net, forums.mindboards.net ) and the redirect from NXTasy.org. I thought that SourceForge only hosted open-source software, and Mindboards is a forum/blog/site.

[bungeshea]

And I am only interested in what the admins have to pay, not what SourceForge has to pay.

[mattallen37]

As far as I understand it, sourceforge is for open source projects. Mindboards is a project. There is BCC, NXC, NBC, and all that other open source stuff being hosted by them. It is true that the forums are the main part of what we use, but that's not all we use.

[mattallen37]

The admins don't have to pay any money to keep this running.

[muntoo]

I'm guessing the hosting for mindboards.net costs about $5/mo.

whois

[mightor]

John paid for the domain name. The admins pay for the site with their time

- Xander

[hassenplug]

For some of us admin-type people, the money we spend on domain names and web site hosting is a small part of the money we spend to enjoy and share our hobby. I may spend a hundred dollars a year for my web site (teamhassenplug.org).

As Xander said, we really have more time than money invested in this forum. If we were smarter, we'd find a way to make money off this. But it seems of the four of us, none are really smart enough to turn a profit.

Generally, as employed engineers, the cost is pretty small.

Steve