[occam's chainsaw]

$360,000 per year to run this website? I would have never guessed it would be so much.

[Mad Dawgg]

"$360,000 per year to run this website? I would have never guessed it would be so much.

Bandwidth is Eeeeeeeexpensive!!!

(not to mention Servers, Hardware, Software, and Maintenance)

[WillaJohns]

This website uses ENORMOUS amounts of bandwidth, the amount of which is very costly. Mr. Robinson has to pay his electric bills. We who love this site choose to contribute to the expenses of keeping it up and running. Pretty amazing considering it started with one man's hobby, isn't it? It's a great example of doing what you love and the money will follow. I'm still trying to figure out what I love to do.

Here's more donations just in:

$10 monthly in from California
$100 from New Hampshire
$50 from Virginia
$25 in from an unknown location

Way to go! Thank you all!

[steveegg]

I hate to tell you, but business bandwidth charges subsidize our residential ones. I ran some numbers the last FReepathon and found that if JohnRob's Big Bad FR Server were pumping out its data at a constant rate, it would take 1 T-1 line and a fractional T-1 line working 24/7 and a LOT of patience for the folks on between 6 am EST and midnight PST (can you say 0.002 KB/second download rates?).

Thankfully, the Robinsons purchased the bandwidth capacity and amount to keep us happy (most of the time; no web site can handle a slow Web).