@razatd
Metabunk is not a website anyone should visit. It is only useful for reinforcing presumptive bias - never objective evaluation (critical or not). Debunkers do a for-profit job, and education / balanced objective evaluation are not in the profit motive(s).
Fwiw.
You are incorrect. Metabunk, regardless of how you feel about the content, is not a for-profit site. As well, there are no ads, in other words, no monetization. Cost to host/run the site:
There are three (4) costs:
- Domain registration. I use Namecheap.com, for metabunk.org, .net, and .com. This is $36 per year.
- Server hosting. I use Linode.com, a Linode 2GB instance, at $40 per month. But this is shared with several other sites, so I'd say around $20 per month, or $240 per year
- Forum Software. Xenforo.com, This was $140 initially, then $40 per year for upgrades. So let's amortise that at $80 per year, assuming I'll be around for another 3-4 years.
- SSL Certificate. $8 per year. Comodo/Namecheap.
Total = 36+240+80+8 = $366 per year. About $30 per month, or $1 per day.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/how-much-does-metabunk-org-cost-to-run.2291/And by your logic, no one should ever visit any YouTube channels or some meet-ups/conferences as the vast majority are monetized by the likes of GlobeBusters, Jeranism, Rob Skiba, the Marble guy, Mark Sargent, etc. As well they get speaking fees.