so who is in the 5 digit club ?

this my 3rd consequtive month above 10K (been a publisher since almost the start)

so who else is minting it in?

my own costs are fairly high tho more than half will go on server fees

 

Half? WOW, you must have lots of traffic.
Wanna share your sites?

 

$5000 on servers each month is insane.

 

i have (well to be more correct the limited company i work for and founded) several huge sites, 2 are in alexa top 1000





and yes alot of traffic both in unique visitors/pageviews and physical bandwidth,



one of the sites is a online file storage service and is pushing ~1gbit as we speak thru more than a dozen servers, all this bandwdith is very expensive not to mention other hardware costs



suppose it takes money to make money


im not going disclosing the site for obvious reasons but all my servers handle 1 in every 200 internet users daily (alexa 0.5% reach combined) so more than likely you came across our sites already


i was on dp back in 2005 but never got around to registering, im after finishing 14 hours of work so decided to unwind and spent some time here maybe get to know other webmasters in same boat

 

Great! I wish one day to be member in club.
How much do you spend for your sites?

 

half of what i earn

 

great see you soon there i am in 3digit club

 

My experience tell me not to go with hosting site
You may try make a third big website with low server cost.
Good luck!

 

we do have other sites that are not bandwidth intensive, but instead they are fairly database hungry due to the huge amounts of users

 

wow i would like to talk to you about hosting large sites some time.

 

It's nice to describe your sites, but posting a link would be much more credible.

 

no way in hell

an im not shoemoney either, i have money to make not blog about making money

 

$5,000 only in server fees is insane... How many sites do you own and how many dedicated servers do you own?

Server fees should never chunk into 50% of the earnings, it's just not right..

 

WELL I M xxxxxxxx DIGIT CLUB AND LOVE BEING HERE DOING NOTHING , JUST ENJOYING LIFE AFTER WHAT I HAD BEEN DOING FOR YEARS
AND CURRENTLY BUYING WEBSITES THAT ARE IN 5 DIGIT CLUBS...
pM ME IF YOU GOT SOMETHING

 

it is right (and comparatively quite cheap since i have good connections to datacenters in US and Europe) since the services i offer require alot of bandwidth and CPU resources, btw by this stage its 30-40% for 13 servers and rising fast for 2 sites in top 1000 and several more in top 10,000


if you dont believe me about the costs, go do some shopping for a 1gbit dedicated bandwidth you will be shocked



making MFA sites that run on shared hosts will take you years and alot of work to make money (tho now that i think of it has taken me years with adsense and alot of work to get to where i am, lol )


@CEO monster you mother ever teach you not to SHOUT on the web? here some reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette

 

I imagine that the amount of clicks you get on Adsense is massive, so the amount of money that you get per click must be pretty small if you earn only 10K and spend 5K on bandwidth...

 

yes fairly small, ive noticed that every time traffic doubles the cpc goes down

tho this month is on track for 15,000-20,000

 

Congratulations ionix5891

We are at about $4,000 per month, so not quite halfway to $10,000 yet. But hopefully it won't be too long. It has only taken us 1 year to get to this point, and the climb upward has ramped up as time goes on. We started with making 1c in our first month.

Our website costs are very low- under $50 per month hosting + our internet connection and associated costs of working on the site, + domain reg.

Looking forward to joining you at this level some time this year.

 

congrats to you to, you'll notice a point were traffic just keeps growing exponentially as long as you are offering a compelling service


for example right now im completely undercutting all my competition by not charging any subscriptions, but once it gets bigger subscriptions have the potential to make alot more than adsense are offering now

 

Wow! I envy you guys. I hope I could enter this club one day