Not yet.

Given that we're nearly there, I'm hoping the affiliate pot can instead be used as an opening balance for Teh club/society bank account, which I still intend to setup, (and therefor will be the starting point for next years hosting bill).

How much is in the affiliate pot, just out of nosiness?

I need to find out how much is in the Amazon one for the past year before he can answer this properly.

Excluding the Amazon one (as per milko), the TradeDoubler pot is £93. IIRC, none of that was from recent purchases - just checked, ten clicks but no purchases in past two months, and never any affiliate purchases on play-asia.com - so perhaps it's time for a "don't forget the affiliate links" post. :)

I know you have already paid and stuff but www.1and1.co.uk are now selling rootservers for 35 pound a month inc vat

 

CPU Athlon 3200+
RAM 1 GB
Traffic 1000 GB
80gb harddrive space with software raid 1
More details on the website

 

And the plesk licenses you have to "renew" every 3 months or so but it is free and easy to do

How goes it Peter? Have we raised enough to cover?

Can't remember, but I'll check tonight.
(if I haven't replied by 20:00 UTC/GMT (16:00 Quebec), feel free to poke me)

There were still a handful of outstanding potential donators, but I think the affiliate pot is enough to make up the difference (although as I mentioned it would be good to use that as a starting balance for Teh Bank Account when I manage to sort that out, which will therefor go towards next years costs).

So yeah, I'll check tonight how things are going and probably do another thermometer thing.

(octopus) (beep) (eep)

 

(yin)

My emotranslaticom is disfunctioning, can you repeat that in English?

I think he means "what are the scores on the doors?"

:Y

Something like that ^ .

 

(it made sense at the time, something along the lines of "squid levels, beep beep snoozing Pete, is it all balanced?" ) :Y

A little short with the TD Affiliate Pot excluded, but otherwise fine...

Hmm...

Been thinking about next year, and being a little short of the total this year.

We now get sufficient enough Guests visiting on a regular basis that it might pay for us to add some Google Adwords (or other advertising scheme) that shows for the Guests. Might help supplement the income a bit more.

They'll be hidden for registered users, of course, like.

Yay? Nay?

How about charging for membership? Perhaps some kind of tiered system depending on how much you pay?

 

(Sorry, couldn't resist. Personally i have no issues with selling out the Guests with google ad words.)

What would be a better idea would be charging for the privelege of being allowed to use certain words within posts. And Peter could bung in a fiver for every time he asks about something he wants which sounds impossible, and it turns out it's all because he doesn't have a phone line.

That's already in place, just you don't know about it.

:'(

I endorse this idea.

 

I also endorse Matts Google ads for Guests idea.

Someone with better organisational skills than myself should go sign up for a Google AdSense account and tell me what you need to inject into the pages (HTML, Javascript, etc) of the pages so I can add it to the pages.

I vote Peter.