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How much are you getting from donations?

• buro9 4y ago
  About $900 per month, which is non-aggressively asked for (a single button on a single website with no pushy messaging - just "buy the server a drink"). The costs are below this, in the region of $600 most months except when TLS certs and domain names roll around. I donate extras throughout the year to causes related to the one website that delivers the donations. I do receive a few other donations from a few other sites based on "pay what you feel it is worth", and those amount to another couple of hundred dollars.
  • Shindi 4y ago
    > which is non-aggressively asked for This just sounds like bad sales. If you aggressively asked for donations, some users will get mildly annoyed, but then the service can still operate - ie not shut down and users can get utility out of it.
    • buro9 4y ago
      If I had a need to be more of a salesperson I would. But I'm fine just offering a non-profit social service.
  • toast0 4y ago
    There's reasons to pay for TLS certificates, but using Let's Encrypt might be worthwhile to tighten your budget?