Don't worry, I am The Evil Webmaster and I know where you live!
At the moment, the only thing I have paid for is the jigsaw anti-spambot thingummy which you had to negotiate at registration time and which was an outrageous (and unbudgetted) £25 for the next 12 months. It was pay or we get bombarded by adverts and I didn't want Rae coming round and giving me another thick ear!
The purchase of the domain name, the creation of the website and the hosting of the site for the next 12 months will be approx £200 but I haven't had the invoice yet. Martin, (who created the site and provides the hosting at a knock-down price) had a sudden and unexpected death in the family on Wednesday evening, so we are actually very lucky that he could turn the site on this morning!
The ongoing annual cost (after the next 12 months) will be approx. £100 per year assuming we don't need to buy in any technical heavyweight support.
I am deternined not to make money at this lark but not to go to the work house either. The dilemma for us all is how and when we divvy up the costs; do it now and those who join later miss out on the chance to pay their portion of my new helicopter, wait too long and you might have left and not paid a bean
So, I think we wait a couple of months and then do the divvy. If we make a profit, then we either put it toward next year or we make a donation to Riders for Health or somesuch. I'm not likely to go broke in the meantime and I am taking steps to ensure that the other admins have access to all passwords and account details so If I ride under a bus any time soon, the new site doesn't get buried with me, again
Brian (who can't make his mind up between buying Necker Island off his mate Richard or buying Islay and drinking it dry
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