Hi Molonians!

It is coming up to that time of year again - the annual forum subscription renews this month (June).

DMF has been up and running for over 7 six years (our 7th birthday was on 21 March!).

I have always wanted the forum and connected sites to be free to use, but they are not free to run. It has always been very important to me not to have to ask for help with costs, and that the fandom can enjoy and explore the sites freely.

Over the years, many of you have kindly made contributions at specific times, which together with my own have enabled us to afford cards and flowers for Damien, with associated delivery and postage costs, for which I am hugely grateful. Any remainder has gone towards subscription costs. However these contributions have never covered the large costs of running the sites. 

damienmolonyforum.com (this site) and damienmolony.org are not for profit and do not generate any money, but do have annual costs and subscriptions which I find myself increasingly struggling to afford.

The fansite (damienmolony.org) annual subscription expired in March, costs have been covered by me.

The domain names associated with both sites expired in April, costs have been covered by me.

Photobucket subscription (for all the forum images, gifs, footers and headers and more) expired last month, costs have been covered by me.

 The forum subscription (damienmolonyforum.com) expires this month, any contributions would be much appreciated.

I took the difficult decision last year to add donate buttons to the sites, but sadly there still have been near to zero donations that way.

So I am appealing to all who have enjoyed DMF over the years to consider making a small contribution towards running costs of the forum part of the DMF empire!

To be completely transparent about costs, and where any donations will go, below is a breakdown.

DMF costs per year

FORUM (damienmolonyforum.com)

SUBSCRIPTION COSTS

Which includes:

500,000 page views per month

Custom domain name, chat box, no ads, custom emoticons, image and file attachments

 (if we ever exceed page views, the cost will increase!)

$94.50 US dollars 

£71.41 UK pounds

with £35 % discount (the kind hosts always apply this for me)

$62.01 US dollars

£46.86 UK pounds

FANSITE  (damienmolony.org)

SUBSCRIPTION COSTS

This includes Custom domain name, 13 GB space upgrade (for galleries), advanced design options, CSS design option, remove adverts

$99.00  US dollar

£71.29 UK pounds

DOMAIN NAMES

damienmolony.org domain £32.59

damienmolonyforum.com domain £28.90

(domain names for the websites)

TOTAL FANSITE & FORUM COSTS

Forum subscription £34.74 + domain £28.90 = 63.64

Fansite subscription £71.29 + domain £32.59 = £103.88

 Plus

Photobucket subscription $34.99 US Dollars | £28.58 UK pounds

(forum / fansite images headers, footers banners & more)

GRAND TOTAL: £196.10

Please note: The above costs do not include other payments throughout the year for things like Damien's cards and postage, charity fundraiser postage.

HOW TO MAKE A DONATION

To help keep DMF going, please consider making a small contribution to our running costs.

To donate, either click the link in the 'Community Funding' box at the bottom of the forum, or click HERE.

The Community Funding box can be found at the bottom of the forum on the forum landing page damienmolony.com, see the screenshot below.

All donations go directly into the forum account and will be used for the upcoming subscription payment.

Please note, the forum hosts are a Canadian company, and all donations via community funding are in Canadian dollars. To work out how much you wish to pay in your currency use the online converter at the link below to give you the amount in Canadian dollars.

HANDY ONLINE CURRENCY CONVERTER

For example: A £5 Canadian dollar contribution = £2.99 in UK pounds

Huge thanks,

In fandom

domino

DMF webmistress