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#193632 - 10/17/08 04:54 PM What kind of cost?
Stan Jensen Administrator Offline


Registered: 09/15/06
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Loc: Still a bit short of reaching ...
NOt counting man power expense, What does it cost to run the kind of incredible online ministry your Church has per month?
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#193708 - 10/17/08 11:14 PM Re: What kind of cost? [Re: Stan Jensen]
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Registered: 03/29/07
Posts: 27
Loc: Orlando, FL
Hmmm...let me see if I can at least give a ballpark figure. I'll give it to you in a shopping list sort of format.

1. Hosting--Ancillary websites: $10/month
2. Hosting--Main church website: $0/month right now (hosted on a church member's server) though this could change
3. Domain Names: $100/year
4. Website software/platforms: $0 (I use only Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, CMSMS)
5. Website development: $0--thank God for volunteers! (costs more if you count the food at meetings)
6. Streaming server and hosting: $150-200/month (varies with bandwidth)
7. DVCAM tapes/HDVD tapes (to record everything): $300-400/month (we record EVERYTHING)
8. CDs/DVDs: $unknown but alot--we give away tons of stuff and only charge for time/materials if someone orders a sermon on disk
9. Extra electricity: $unknown, but it takes extra juice to run all those lights and cameras and recording decks
10. SmugMug subscription (my church photo gallery website): $5/month

Aside from the manpower (which would be huge if I had to pay for it) the main expenses are equipment-related, but these aren't monthly expenses.

Thanks to open source software my website expenses are very manageable.
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