Combined financial statement for 2013 and 2014

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Attached is a complete list of expenses for 2013 and 2014 in regards to running this website and its peripheral services.It covers the following:

• Our income (Donations)
• Dreamhost (prior hosting service)
• Linode (current hosting service)
• Cloudflare
• Domain registrations
• SSL Certificates
• XenForo and Add-On Licenses

In total, we've received about $1,200 and I've paid an additional ~$1,400. This isn't because the forums are painfully expensive to cover -- I take a lot of liberties with additional services to try out new things and grow the website. These are things I'm willing to take out of my own pocket because I love technology and I like trying to improve the website constantly. If I desired to trim the fat, I could definitely do so.

Things to consider:

• The forum ran without accepting donations until July 4th, 2014.
• The forum has one 200x200 advertisement on the index page for guests only.
• The forum has doubled in active users every four months
• In the last 30 days, we have served 4,600,000 page views.
• Kiwi, our MySQL server, is paid for until August 2016. If it wasn't, I'd only be down $500 for all two years combined.
• I am consciously aware of how much donation money has been contributed and I set aside that amount in case something happens.

That being said, and while I am beyond confident in our (and my) financial stability, I am extremely thankful for all of our supporters and their assistance in helping me recoup costs and assure that the forums will continue to run. I have learned more from hosting this website than I ever did in any college or educational institution. For everyone helping me and our entire community grow, I am very appreciative.

Cheers to 2015.

 

[introman]

The kiwifarms.net is a doctorate level thesis on managing an online enterprise.

 

[Null]

The kiwifarms.net is a doctorate level thesis on managing an online enterprise.

Nowhere to go but up, because nothing's down but the floor.™

 

[KingofManga420]

I really want to ruin the moment and ask how much we're losing in coke zero expenses but I'm too damn impressed, all I can do is clap silently to myself and wish you could hear it.

 

[CatParty]

can i give more money? like say to have my name sparkly?