Hello, my name is sam. I am a modder by nature, and a developer. If you are curious, here is my Steam Workshop page. I am also a student studying Computer Engineering and I am the Website Head for the LetBoomSpeak website. I run the website, the videos site, and the frontend / backend. You can donate to me on my Ko-fi page here.
As you may know, running this site is not free. According to current costs, it will cost us roughly $16.45 per month to keep the site running. Most of the website is self-hosted, which saves a ton on hosting costs, other than few aspects such as email, and other components. Below is a cost breakdown on everything that I have bought for this project and how much it will cost per month to maintain:
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Domain | $11.50 Per Year |
| VPS (Virtual Private Server) | $8 Per Month |
| Cloudflare R2 Service (For the videos site and backups) | $7.50 Per Month (For 500GB) |
| TOTAL COST | $16.45 Per Month |
This is a conservative estimate, and I should mention that the Cloudflare R2 service is Dynamic pricing. This means that the more videos that are stored, the higher the cost goes. I’ll try and occasionally update this.
The server runs a Intel i7 7200U processor, with 16GB of DDR4 memory clocked at 2666Mhz.
The bar here is very low, even if we get $10 of donations, the costs are basically covered. Any excess costs will simply go back into covering the server, and advertising letboomspeak.com.
Nothing on this site is paywalled, and I do not plan for it to be paywalled at all. There is no obligation to donate, but if you do choose to, I want to say THANK YOU for supporting me, and the LetBoomSpeak movement! 😃