Nerd.nu Finances

[Mrloud15]

Hello everyone,

 

Here is a breakdown of where our finances stand.

 

We raised $3667.84 USD during the last CTF Donation Drive we had, and thank you to everyone who made that possible!

 

We currently have two servers, the main one which hosts our main Minecraft servers (S, P, C, and E). The second one helps alleviate the workload of the main box and is currently hosting the wiki, mcp-dl.com, etc. We also plan to use the second box to run non-mc game servers (keep an eye out for more information about this!).

 

Deaygo was paying for the second box out of his pocket until we could run a donation drive, so we will be using part of the money we raised to pay him back. We would like to thank Deaygo for doing this.

 

The joining fee of the new box was spread out over 6 months, so the cost breaks down to $80.66 CAD for a month, $79.10 CAD for 4 months, $76.29 CAD for a month, and $63.28 CAD for the last 3 months and this is the price it will stay at. The total amount is $663.19 CAD which comes out to $534 USD.

 

That leaves us with $3,133.84 from the donation drive and $648 left over from before the donation drive, which totals to $3,781.84.

 

It costs $238 USD per month for the main server and $51 USD for the second server, totaling $289 USD per month. We plan to use some of the money to advertise the servers to help build the community. We don't know how much we are going to spend to advertise, but we will let you guys know as soon as we do. We are going to see what other game servers we can run off the second box before spending the money on a third box.

 

Below is a quick summary (all amounts are in USD):

 

Amount raised after paypal fees:                         +$3,667.84
Amount owed to Deaygo for the second box:     -$534.00
Previous Balance:                                                +$648.00

Amount Remaining:                                             +$3,781.84

Monthly Cost:
Main Server:                                                          $238.00
Second Server:                                                     $51.00
Forum Support:                                                     $4.17 ($25.00 every 6 months)
Advertising:                                                           Unknown (see above)


Total Monthly Cost:                                              $293.17 + Advertising

 

Here is a spreadsheet showing how many months the servers could run if we spend $x on advertising.