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@Velocio
Averaged out over a year it works out about a grand per month. Some months it's just the raw server costs (£700) and email costs (£50), other months include annual payments so those months are a lot higher.
In the last 6 months we've barely taken in half of that amount each month... meaning I'm down a few grand (I just pay it from my personal account and then put my shopping and living on credit card).
Critically though... my credit card is now max'd and I can't afford to live this month, so definitely cannot afford to pay the LFGSS server costs this month... especially not in the hope that the affiliates do their seasonal bounce and "it'll be alright".
If the affiliates do bounce during May, then great. But we're still in the negative for the last few months (leaving me out of pocket) so it doesn't save us immediately. The affiliate seasonal bounce will just mean I can go back to not bothering people about donations in the future.