>Maybe not receiving much revenue to constant update
Oh, this is rich, if you'll excuse the pun.
The PayPal donations button would have to be the most underused button on the SkippySky interface.
In over four years, I don't think I've received $200 in donations, which goes not very far towards paying for the Telstra Bigpond Elite cable plan necessary to download the GFS data 4x daily, and upload some 30,000 PNG files each day.
What does it actually cost me? To be honest ,I'm not too sure.
$100p.m for cable
Power for a PC running 24/7/365
Business class Website hosting
Domain name registration
Then they're are the intangible hours of my time maintaining, changing and modifying the site to cope with short term requests for special maps, e.g. for IOTA occultation expeditiions, Solar eclipses, star parties
But my time is my donation to the Community and Science.
It would be nice though to break even, cost-wise.
It would be nice to be able to retire my 4y.o. PC, running DDR2 800 memory with an original Q6600 CPU, and buy a current i7 model
that could crunch out those 30000 maps per day so much faster,
and let me contemplate expansion of SkippySky to take over the World
What can I say? If you're a frequent, regular user of SkippySky, it
would be nice to receive a contribution towards costs, maintenance and upgrade of the service. Would you miss $10?
Kind regards,
Andrew Cool
Adelaide
www.skippysky.com.au
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I just double check the overall Australia one is Feb 4 but the Perth one is 30 Jan - Concerning but I must admit I do not use as much as before. Maybe not receiving much revenue to constant update or maybe the update software interconnect is not working properly.
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