Explain to me an illiterate old man individual, when it comes to this computer and internet world, what expense(s) are there to be paid to operate, run, a web site?
Software, hosting, servers have to be bought and upgraded, people that help with coding have to be paid, not to mention I have to make a living.
Just to give you an idea, the last server I bought cost $7,000 and I bought 2 of them. That's just to buy the servers, I still have to have them in a datacenter which costs me every month as well. I also have to pay for the software to run the servers, security software, etc. (those I have to pay monthly) There is a lot, especially when you have sites like this.