Gnarly-Repacks is requesting donations for the renewal bill for their site and I know FitGirl sporadically makes requests for donations as well. It makes me curious what range of expenses do sites like these incur and what they are.
I do vaguely recall The Pirate Bay 2013 documentary TPB AFK talking a bit about their revenue but I don’t know if they talked much about their expenses.
Everything is way overpriced
Why would somebody need to pay $10 for an email?
Why would one hire a developer when you’re a developer yourself?
Why would one use amazon buckets when they are overpriced?
Domain names from ~$15, since when?
And the offshore servers, you can find those for even cheaper and more powerful than $5 (or many cores and 16gb ram for $5)
Also, why would you pay for jenkins when you can host it or something similar?