Ever since then I've gone to DigitalOcean, where we have been running without any issues at all. The reason why we're at $20 for the Fan Hub is simple: $12.5 for our server itself (which is very reasonable, with SSD disks). Next to that there are the domain costs, our external backup service which we use and the costs of Invision Power Board. Adding that all up we're at about $23-25 a month.

 

I'm going to make this post a bit more clear

The costs we have are as follows:

• Monthly base cost for our server: $10 monthly
  
• Back-ups for our server: $ 2.50 monthly
  
• Spellborn.org domain name: € 7.99 + € 1.68 tax = € 9.67 annually
  
• Invision Power Board license: $50 annually
  
• PayPal donation fees. On a donation of €5, we need to pay €0,52 fees. Those are added into the calculation (about $25, but could be more).
  

Added that all up we're at about $22 a month or about $260 for a year.

 

So all in all, this might look like a lot, but at the moment it's the best option we have. I could switch forum software, but this might break a lot of things and it might be a lot of misery to solve those.

 

Also a note, <b>you don't have to use PayPal. If you like to use another way to donate, just send me a PM and we'll look into what's possible .</b>

 

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