Hi all,
Firstly, thanks for your support to date.
When I started the forum nine years ago, the running costs were low. Besides time, there was an annual payment for the URL and hosting of approx. €50. Like everything else, these costs have risen over the years and the bill for the next year over €100 for the same service.
In order to contribute to offsetting these costs, I have added advertising to the forum. The goal is to make this as unobtrusive as possible, but hopefully it will raise a small amount of revenue to contribute to running costs. If you click on the odd ad, you will be supporting the forum .
In order to facilitate the advertising, I've made some changes at the back end. The URL for the site previously defaulted to www.donabateportrane.net/phpbb. The phpbb has now been removed. If you have bookmarked a link to the site, you may need to edit it to remove the phpbb otherwise you will get an error.
Any feedback or suggestions are welcome as always.
Forum Update
I think we're fine on the technical front. Not much to do bar the occasional forum software or extension update which is manageable.
I did consider the donation route, but felt advertising was easier and hopefully less hassle.
I did consider the donation route, but felt advertising was easier and hopefully less hassle.
Regards,
Ken.
Ken.
Hi Ken
Thanks for all you have done, the site is really great to have. Donations are probably more hassle than they're worth but also might be worth a try. If you can see the traffic then you'll know whether you would get enough unique people to donate either €10 x 10 people or €5 x 20 people.
Thanks again, much appreciated!
Thanks for all you have done, the site is really great to have. Donations are probably more hassle than they're worth but also might be worth a try. If you can see the traffic then you'll know whether you would get enough unique people to donate either €10 x 10 people or €5 x 20 people.
Thanks again, much appreciated!