What I pay for this website
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Axxuy recently posted his expenses for his blog, and I thought: Why not do the same? And use some tables for that. 😁
I pay the hosting fees in USD per month. Everything else is in EUR per year. Therefore I had to do some calculations, which lead to some rounding.
| Item | cost/ year | cost/ month |
|---|---|---|
| Domain (via Weingärtner IT) | 10.00 € | 0.83 € |
| Hosting (via Neocities) | 53.28 € (60.00 $) | 4.44 €* (5.00 $) |
| Total | 63.28 € | 5.27 € |
* last time I got charged, this is what I paid.
I do use an e-mail address with my own domain as a way to contact me through my site. For that I use my paid Tuta account. So let's add that, just to be more accurate.
| Item | cost/ year | cost/ month |
|---|---|---|
| E-mail (via Tuta) | 36.00 € | 3.00 € |
| Total | 99.28 € | 8.27 € |
I could use a free e-mail address, of course. Neocities is free as well, but you get some additonal features if you go the paid route, like using a custom domain. So if I didn't want my own domain (and e-mail using that) and be happy with a neocities subdomain I would have no costs.
Yes, blogging can cost money. It doesn't have to. Though then the question is: What else do you pay at least some of the "free" services with if not money? I assume we all know the answer to that, and I hate that answer.
- Elena.
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