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> 450,000 cents is about 5 thousand a month. Assume that one person works full time on it. $5,000 a month is $60,000 a year. Subtract hosting costs and it's a

> 450,000 cents is about 5 thousand a month. Assume that one person works full time on it. $5,000 a month is $60,000 a year. Subtract hosting costs and it's a relatively low income for one person who has the skills necessary to build and administer such a web site. > not too shabby It is actually a little shabby.

thelittleone 9y ago
>It is actually a little shabby. Perhaps in many parts of the US, but plenty of places elsewhere in the world, this is a really attractive salary.
tabeth 9y ago
hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). I think 5K a month is more than appropriate. you're greatly overestimating the difficulty of setting up a forum and the costs to have 15,000 active accounts with 1 hour viewing time.
- Safety1stClyde 9y ago
  > hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). Given the above is true, I have a proposition for you: I will pay you whatever you consider fair payment for fifteen minutes of your time to set me up a web site with an income of $5,000 dollars a month.
  - aus8aeouns 9y ago
    What an idiotic response. He didn't say if you spend 15 minutes setting up the site you will make $5,000 per month. He said if you have content that 15,000 people a month find valuable, and if you could charge them 1 cent per hour on the site, you could make $5,000/month and that the setup costs were negligible. You're actively being ignorant. Just stop it.
    - sctb 9y ago
      Please don't call names and be so personally thorny here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - tabeth 9y ago
    What? I didn't say finding 15K users and getting them to pay a cent an hour was easy. I said setting up a website that can easily support 15K users is. I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel.
    - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
      > I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel. This statement is incorrect. You haven't provided instructions on how one can trivially set up a phpBB forum using cPanel.

thelittleone 9y ago

>It is actually a little shabby. Perhaps in many parts of the US, but plenty of places elsewhere in the world, this is a really attractive salary.

tabeth 9y ago

hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). I think 5K a month is more than appropriate. you're greatly overestimating the difficulty of setting up a forum and the costs to have 15,000 active accounts with 1 hour viewing time.

Safety1stClyde 9y ago
> hosting 15,000 users a month is trivial for a forum use case. building a forum is also trivial. you can literally do the entire thing in 15 minutes (buy a domain, use cPanel, install phpBB, done). Given the above is true, I have a proposition for you: I will pay you whatever you consider fair payment for fifteen minutes of your time to set me up a web site with an income of $5,000 dollars a month.
- aus8aeouns 9y ago
  What an idiotic response. He didn't say if you spend 15 minutes setting up the site you will make $5,000 per month. He said if you have content that 15,000 people a month find valuable, and if you could charge them 1 cent per hour on the site, you could make $5,000/month and that the setup costs were negligible. You're actively being ignorant. Just stop it.
  - sctb 9y ago
    Please don't call names and be so personally thorny here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tabeth 9y ago
  What? I didn't say finding 15K users and getting them to pay a cent an hour was easy. I said setting up a website that can easily support 15K users is. I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel.
  - Safety1stClyde 9y ago
    > I've already provided instructions on how you can trivially setup a phpBB forum using cPanel. This statement is incorrect. You haven't provided instructions on how one can trivially set up a phpBB forum using cPanel.