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> Go an and run a site that serves massive amounts of cat pictures for peanuts! Well, I was responding to "millions", so maybe "a handful of peanuts" might be

• e12e 5y ago
  Looks like Kyle dropped out of the open company initiative at some point, or let that one blog post drop off the site? http://web.archive.org/web/20160310015118/https://blog.neocities.org/open-company-progress-report-2014.html http://web.archive.org/web/20160310015118/https://blog.neoci... > Our (rough) budget for 2015 (...) > We have upgraded a lot of our infrastructure to provide for faster, more reliable service with more features, space, and bandwidth capabilities, which has pushed our operating bill to around $300/month (...) To prevent unexpected costs, we have made agreements with our providers to make this a fixed rate, so a sudden flood of traffic shouldn't change this dramatically. (...) > In order to become self sustaining with the current system, we will require approximately $3600 in annual recurring revenue. I think this is an achievable goal with our new site (we're almost 1/3 of the way there), and we have plenty of runway incase this takes longer than expected. We also have the ability to scale back on some of our expenses, as I believe I can shave off at least $100-150 from our monthly recurring expenses should we need to without too many problems. > (...) We can scale a lot (~500k+ sites) with what we have now, and the scaling options we have are simple, predictable and affordable.