We’re all for transparency and accountability. In fact, we believe that allowing a good peek behind the curtain of our financials may help to reassure our readers that we hope to be in it for the long haul. That, and to make clear we’re not planning to rock the boat with any unpleasant monetisation strategies.
Operational Costs of Faith Gamer
These are rough approximations, based on what we expect to be the highest we would likely be paying per year. And since some components are used for multiple projects, we don’t always consider them a Faith Gamer exclusive expense. That and some of these costs also fluctuate.
But here’s an estimated breakdown:
Annual Costs
- Website hosting: £425
- Forum hosting: £425 (hosted on a completely separate server to the website)
- Off-server website + forum backups: £96 (backed up to the same account, but different buckets)
- Primary domain name: £12
- Additional domain names: £25
- Email hosting: £325
- Content delivery network: £50
- Website software licensing/renewals: £150
- Forum software licensing/renewals: £70
How Faith Gamer Generates Income
There is currently zero monetisation in place. And we’re okay with that right now. We’re 100% independent and self-funded.
How Faith Gamer is Sustainable
Thankfully, some expenses are partially covered as part of our regular jobs. We work in the tech space, and can leverage certain elements of our tech stack such as website hosting and software licensing for multiple projects.
For everything else, we try and remain good stewards of the money that comes in and we’re able to put towards Faith Gamer. Your prayer in this area would be appreciated.
Plans for Monetisation
We do occasionally mull this over. It’s not on our immediate radar, but we expect there will come a time one day where we would welcome funding.
What we’re open to:
- Ability to allow people to voluntarily support financially via PayPal, Stripe, etc without reward incentives
- YouTube monetisation
Unlikely, but not impossible:
- Opening a digital shop that stocks Faith Gamer merch (cool idea, but waaay too much for us to handle)
Verrry unlikely to ever happen:
- Premium memberships (payment for perks)
- Displaying ads 😬
- Putting up paywalls 🤢
- Getting acquired 😫