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> Each email account costs us approximately $0.30 per year, and we currently have enough funds to support 318 more days of hosting. Curious. What does the $0.3
by MichaelApproved 12y ago
> Each email account costs us approximately $0.30 per year, and we currently have enough funds to support 318 more days of hosting.
Curious. What does the $0.30 figure take into account? Is it just server and IT or does it also include customer service and other administrative work?
- vortico 12y agoGood question. To clarify, the $0.30 figure is simply the cost of servers per number of users. The figure may vary according to average space used by accounts and bandwidth. The figure does not include administration, but donations may be used for human resources. After a reasonable amount is distributed, funds will go into the server budget, thus increasing the "days remaining" meter. I will soon summarize this on the home page.
- brongondwana 12y agoI have a pretty good idea of the costs of running an email service, since I do that as well - and I do wonder if you have any redundancy or backups or any of the niceties considered here (and I bet you'll feel less happy about giving your time for free at some point) Last thing I saw with "free forever" on it was called Evony and it used to advertise all over my Facebook a few years ago.
- vortico 12y agoIncremental encrypted backups are performed hourly and stored off-site.