By the way, I looked at your site, and what you are offering I think you are definately on the right track.
We too are always looking for benefits to those who donate.... verses those who pay for access.
We're dealing with adult pics... so it's not quite apples vs. apples. But on our site:
They can pay for photo only access through iBill:
- $4.95/first month - $2.95/mo recurring after that.
- $4.95 for one month
- $34.95 for one year
Or they can donate $10/month or $50/year. Those who "donate" not only get photo acccess... but also access to a few private discussion forums. An email address, a custom title, and access to an audio/video clip forum. People still donate more than that. Some give us more than $100/year. Some give less.... some just pay for the photo access.
All in all, I think we're pretty lucky.
Our monthly hosting expenses are $200-$300 dollars. Bandwidth went down when we started charging. Every once in a while, there is an article or a link written about us somewhere, or even some celebrity or comedian joking about us, and the bandwidth goes off the chart. So it's good to have reserves for that huge bandwidth bill.
Also Happy to say threads has handled it with flying colors.
