No one has sat down to do the budget yet, since SunirShah just keeps paying the bills. To answer the question, we need to know:
- Bandwidth required
- Hosting costs / month, year
- Domain costs / year
Second, to build in defenses around the financing, if we presume Meatball will be around for 50 years, we can multiply the yearly costs by 50 (or better, 100) to get a good target of how much money it would take to keep the site running for a very, very long time.
Budgeting beyond 10 years is generally useless. Presumably more money could be raised. The second question is whether or not we want to raise funds for marketing purposes, or to expand the services we provide to other projects.
Notes
- ~$50 USD / mo. for hosting
- 12 euro / year for each domain. There are roughly 21 domains, although Sunir has to confirm this.
Roughly it currently costs $1000 USD per year.