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Donate to TerminatorFiles.com
Help us keep TerminatorFiles.com up and running!
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Main info
In light of some developments within our hosting and bandwidth provisions, TerminatorFiles.com has opened this
page to ask for any possible donation
by you... a Terminator fan, or any other interested party.
TerminatorFiles.com has been a labor of love since its conception back in June 2003. We've spend uncountable hours
developing the online experience you see today, programming content, collecting info, designing pages and other
systems, creating new stuff and lots and lots more. And we haven't stopped there.
We're always striving to aquire new means of presenting our ever expanding content to all our visitors. Buying new
third parties tools, paying occasions external programmers for specific coding or updating our server-sided software
which enables us to keep ahead with technology crucial to the survival of our website.
With a visitor-ratio that keeps rising every week -and ever larger content hosted under our domains- our bandwidth
has risen exponentially. This ultimately costs us money.
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««« | Why donate?
Our website needs your donation
to stay free, survive, pay growing server costs (hosting and bandwidth), add in more content, update existing content
and to pay for other possible related costs. All donations will be utilised for website development and indirect
applicable sources.
Since our conception we have not charged a single cent for access to the existing content on our website nor have we
shown multiple popups or used dubious means to make money from you. All previous and current ad banners and/or
campaigns are to the benefit of the fans and in most cases related to the Terminator Saga.
We are in need of future funds to survive & grow stronger in the online community. We currently require the
ammount of at least $600 each year to run our website. Most of this money comes from our own pockets as limited
advertising revenue is often slack.
««« | Site costs
Almost all visible site content (code and design) is made by ourselfs. A team of two fans working three hours a day
(and more frequent hours in weekends and holidays) to build the site you see today. This is an equivalent of approx.
2160 manhours a year... which is totally free of charge (and would normally cost approx. $50 an hour).
Next to the so called 'sitedevelopment costs'... we've still got normal industry fees to pay. External software, tools,
occasional hired developers, hosting and more importantly bandwidth costs us money. Plain and simple.
We need approx. $600 a year to keep the site up and running. The majority of that money coming from our own pockets.
And we even need more to develop upcoming services and systems, upgrading servers and other costs.
This is where you possibly come in.
Are you willing to support us and our -sometimes groundbreaking- endeavors? Then be sure to
donate any ammount
you like through PayPal... It's fast, free and secure!
Thanks for your support!
««« | Examples of multiple donations and their spending
You are free to decide for yourself what the site is worth to you. Think of it this way: what has this site done for
me in the past and what importance will it have for me in the future... then decide what ammount you want to donate.
This can be from anywhere between 5 cents to 750 dollars (bigger donations need a seperate registration, due to tax
and other restrictions... but we don't think there will be many of those ;).
If our 1500 unique visitors a day (check here)
would donate
only 50 cents each... then the total donation would of course already be 750 dollars! Any ammount above that one dollar
will increase the 'donation structure' exponentionally. Money we can ultimately use on new endeavors, enriching the
site with new and improved appetizing content!
Any ammount bigger then the needed €550,- ($662) a year can be spend on previous costs, like some of our custom made
database and other systems. Or future costs, like buying/renting a seperate server stack space right on the backbone
of the internet. Diskspace would then be no problem.
However... the biggest money drain would be bandwidth. For example: a video file of 1.42 MB downloaded by just 700 unique
visitors a day would mean the bandwidth of that day would already be 1 GIG... which in turn would mean approx. 30 GIG a month
for one video only!? And we are planning to host a lot more then just one vid! Our site itself text and images) already
entails a total of approx. 6 GIGs of bandwidth a month. And we are sure it will only get bigger.
Your donations
will end up paying for any possible bandwidth increase, wether we decide to host it ourselfs on our current provider or on
a new still to be aquired server.
In any case, whether you donate something
or not, we'd like to thank everybody in advance for their support!
TerminatorFiles.com
By the fans... for the fans!
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| DONATE |
Click the button below to make your donation through PayPal's high security server.
If you would like to support TerminatorFiles.com in other ways, definitely check out our
Amazon TFshop;
buying items through TFshop provides us with small commissions.
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| RECIEVED DONATIONS |
Ever few weeks we will check the status of the donations (if any) and show them here.
- Feb 28, 2006: 20,00
- Jan 10, 2006: 10,00
Thanx to:
Andrew LeRoy
Bart Deprez
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| YEARLY COST SPECS |
Hosting/bandwidth:
- €288 ($347)
Content Management Systems
- €216 ($259)
Domain fees:
- €46 ($56)
Unforseen costs:
- Custom CMS
- Development support
- External service fees
Saving up for:
- Seperate media server
- New server-sided software
- Possible bandwidth increase
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| STATISTICS |
Last modified: Nov 04 2006
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