ok... on mugglenet.com 's website, it states



well it may not say free resource... but i think that they lie when they say that it costs over 120,000 a year to run mugglenet

Well, me and my friends were talking, and we were talking about the note on the bottom of Mugglenet.com saying "Mugglenet costs over $120,000 a year to run, and were like yeah right! so i did some digging and here is what i got......

there is this one site where you pay for what you want.. and its called Madhost http://www.mad-host.net/?id=hosting/takecharge

So lets say this is the cenario

Say they have 50 employee's that neeed FTP access at 1 buck for 10 accounts thats 5 dollars... and they dont even have 50 employees that need FTP access..... maybe the 6 that are listed on their staff page

say they have 10 sub-domains, at 1 buck for 5..thats 2 bucks

lets see...they have galleries, forums, poll, webmail for people, fan fiction, and newsletter. thats 5 MySql Databases, and at 1 buck for 5 MySql Databses, thats another buck.... but the size limit might make a differense so tack on an extra 5 or 10 bucks

say they need 25,000 MB of space that $1000, if they need 50,000 thats $2000 but they dont have all that many pages, so lets go with 25,000

say they need 50,000 MB of bandwidth, thats another 1000... if they need 100,000 thats $2,000 but lets go with 50k
lets add it up...
1
2
7
1000
1000
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$2010..

lol im busting up laughing now, and $120,000 a year divided by 12 months is 12,000 a month....compared to $2010 a month LMAO

now lets try that with the $2000 worth of bandwidth, and $2000 worth of space

1
2
7
2000
2000
------
4010...

well, double to bandwidth, and double the space and were still $8,000 less than what they claim to be paying

not to mention the money they get for the t-shirts, and other Muggglenet/Harry potter supplies they sell... and the paid e-mail they offer...

lol, but the whole point is...Emerson *the maker* can retire by the time he's 30 and running the site lmao.. because they say it costs 120,000 a year, but it really doesn't and he takes the extra money he gets and pockets it

I would think no website short of Google would cost over $100,000 a year to run. Maybe Mugglenet runs on Yen. The current exchange rate is 115 Y per 1 USD.

[Side note: Did you know India uses Rupees as a currency? I learned that when I was a kid playing Zelda. ]

lol someone does agree with me

no i never knew that, just like i never knew that yen's were the japanese form of currency.... lol

I agree with you, they do put tons of money in their pockets... I never heard of this site, but from the calculations... I guess they do rip people off...

Maybe you could make some sort of a deal with them, and introduce them to Computing Host, and claim the difference for your self, work for a percentage

but 120.000 for running a site... That's even beyond Google's expenses... Maybe one of the Admins here could tell us how much Trap17 costs to run per year, just for comparison...

Thaks for your interesting post, but I think they earn even more than 120.000 a year, because they must have tons of visitors and therefore much clicks on their ads.

I think perhaps there is something you are overlooking here. I don't know the site but one might expect there are researchers to collect the content, web designers to keep the page up to date, advertising costs and the cost of making the marketing items such as the t-shirts. If you are looking at these types of things, then it is not hard to see that $120,000 might not be such an unrealistic figure. I mean, does it say anywhere that it costs them $120,000 for just the hosting costs? I think perhaps you need to look at the big picture to understand what might be the total cost of running such a site. Just a thought.

i did look at that, and it still doesn't add up, no they dont pay any of the people that work there, to most people, it would be an HONNOR to work as a graphics designer on mugglenet... or anything on mugglenet...

as for the t-shirts, they come cheap... if they did the searching, and then bought the shirts in bulk... (like 200 small, 200 large, 200 meduim, and 200 x- large.... they all cost the same.. and me being on my schools student counsil for two years nad having to place the order for over 3000 t-shirts, it only costs us apx 2500 bucks for t-shirts.... so cant say much for that... and yes, the least amount of people ive see on the site at once is around 900 members, there are generally around 2k on at a time....

Well you only calcuated the price of ONE host. There are tons out there, all different. Although a webhost might offer cheap bandwith/space, they might run slow. So you would have to move on to another webhost which is much more expensive, but is much faster. Orrr, perhaps they host the site on their own computers/servers, that might cost a bunch of money, for equipment/service... Maybe the stories or interviews they do cost money, talk ain't cheap . Maybe they have to pay money for using harry potter images that might be copyrighted. Maybe they have to pay someone to do scripting/graphics work for them... there are so many costs to consider, it would easily add up, I would think... But yeah, I'm sure they're getting some kind of revenue, why not?!