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As you will know running any web site is no longer the
free for all that it once was, in fact our hosting costs have literally
"gone through the roof"! Because of this we
have been forced to increase the advertising content on the Horsted Keynes
web site although the income from net advertising is still very small
amounting to perhaps a few pounds a month, hardly a fortune! If you,
like us, don't like intrusive internet advertising PLEASE do consider helping
with our
costs by making a small donation.
Whilst YOU can get a free basic site included with
your internet connection this is really not good enough when you have a site
as large as HorstedKeynes.Com. With nearly 140 pages containing over 70Meg of content,
plus numerous old photographs,
most simply not available anywhere else on the internet, and
with a thousand or more visitors each day we need a site with reliable
professional hosting and the costs for this increases every year.
We have paid out well over £8000
since starting up the popular village web site HorstedKeynes.Com some
eleven years ago.
Despite being one of the more popular village sites in the UK
with links both to and from the BBC and other important international internet web sites and with
an average 60,000 hits a
month, advertising revenue is still minimal. It now costs us getting on for
£1000 a year just for our internet connection and hosting, not to mention
all the free
time that we devote to the regular updates!
In all this time with a single exception from the Parish Council we have
not asked for ANY formal financial help at all,
and whilst a few villagers have helped us where they can, and the Parish
Council has offered what help they can the time has
now come to
ask if YOU will help contribute towards our running costs.
If you have found HorstedKeynes.Com interesting or
useful and
do feel able to help please click one of the donate button at the top of
this page and you will be transferred to the British based PayPal web site. Here
you can use any credit or debit card in complete security to donate any
amount from 1p upwards.
If you want
your village to keep its presence on the internet please consider lending us a financial hand.
To see what might happen in the future just take a quick look at
www.danehill.com or
www.lindfield.com .
Scary isn't it?!
Whilst we are not at
this stage suggesting that we will have to pull the plug if we don't receive
help, it is true to say that the cost of running the enlarged HorstedKeynes.Com
web site is now
putting a considerable strain on our personal budgets and this simply cannot
continue for ever.
Many thanks from your village webmasters.
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