alexpgp | Biting the bullet...

For the longest time, I'd entertained the idea of hiring a bookkeeper part time, believing that the money spent on the bookkeeper would be less than the money lost in other ways: late fees, body blows to the credit rating, and so on.

Today was Angela's first day.

Talking about money problems, it would appear that Fotolog.net, which I mentioned a few days ago, is really up against it.

However, right now costs still outweigh the money coming in. It is very expensive to run a site that serves over half a billion page views per month! We have to rent over 70 servers and pay for over 22 terabytes of bandwidth each month.

What with my ISPs granting me upwards of 5 or 10 GB of bandwidth per month, I cannot even conceive of 22 terabytes of data flow. Ye gods.

Fotolog is just under $70K in the hole, which could be made up easily if everyone who's an active member coughed up half a simolean.

Good luck to them, I've become a Gold Camera member, if only for a month.

Cheers...