Yes, I obviously do.
We get 75,000 uniques a month, which averages about 2,500 uniques a day. Which I already showed here:
http://www.8wayrun.com/showpost.php?p=102579&postcount=12. However, your numbers are COMPLETELY out of date. Years ago, when I ran UPNetwork, I used to get 24c CPM; then we had something called the internet bubble crash. Now, after just having a crash in the world economy, we get 3c CPM... that means for every 1000 uniques a day, we get 3 cents. 2,500 uniques a day does not equate to anywhere near $30. The full page adds give us 169c CPM, but they show up far far less. In the last 7 days, adbrite has paid out $5.53.
So essentially you're just really bad at managing the site's advertising then? Of course this is just taking your word at face value...though when I see ads for SOAP, it's certainly more believable. Must think we're all scrubs.
It's not like I don't have experience in this field, you should be able to get a lot more and are not capitalizing on it. I don't use Adbrite so can't speak to their settings, but if it's like any of the other ad carriers I've used, you should be able to increase that amount significantly by manipulating keywords and trying to get the advertising actually targeted at the audience.
If you're just putting an automated ad up with no consideration, you're just throwing money away that could be used to support the community, instead of having to rely on organized begging.
We have premium members, but the majority of them are 1 month only and have already been cancelled.
Like I said, I can just casually browse threads and count 30+ stars, are these people former premium members who never got their status revoked? cause otherwise it's hard to believe this.
Also... Servers hosting isn't about BANDWIDTH; it hasn't been about bandwidth in MANY years. Bandwidth is cheap. It's about getting a server that has the RAM to keep your forums running. Yes, you could get a shared hosting plan for $6 a month; in fact, I've run vBulletin on such a situation... you end up with pages that take 30 seconds to load. The 2 second rule of the internet: if a page takes longer than 2 seconds to load, people close it and move on. If you want a server that will run vBulletin without any load problems, you need to get a VPS; and those cost a minimum of $40 a month. Its obvious you are out of date with the internet economy.
Did I say it was about bandwidth? quote me please, here I'll do it for you.
Required maintenance is about 25 members(though again, I'm surprised it costs $40 a month, is it a dedicated server? If so the traffic really doesn't justify that level of hardware, if it isn't, $40 is way too much for shared hosting).
Sorry, but this is just bullshit. They do NOT start at $40/month. You can even get them as cheap as per megabyte of ram for the exact amount you need. Post actual traffic statistics and ram usage at peak hours. I don't think this website is really using 2+gb of ram(what that price can buy), since the MOST concurrent users ever was 189. With averages seeming more in the 20-40 range. (Good rule is to get 75% of your highest peak).
Even at 200 users, 512mb easily manages that(and is way more than this site needs), if it's not, manage the memory settings better, and ffs turn off un-needed plguins.
Also, drop the "you don't know" shit, it's old. All I want is the annoying ass full-page ads gone. If it's your contention you're not meeting costs *prove it* and I'll shutup. If that is the case though, there's a lot of places you could be cutting cost, or increasing revenue, as I've pointed out.
