Is Rogean rich!??!?

[dafier]

Anyone and everyone who has donated to P99 must know that the funds are used for 'up keep' of the server. This can be interpreted in many many many different ways.

The truth is; Rogean, awesome person who not only supports his staff but has allowed us all to enjoy this experience has spent countless hours of personal time making sure we can get this wonderful experience.

The rest of the staff also do a ton of work, which is taken out of their personal time, whether it be smoking, drinking or actual work, in order to have this wonderful P99 'project'.

But....

I'll leave it at that. ***tin foil hats on***

GO!

[skarlorn]

rivervale will be revenged

[Baler]

a little birdy told me Rogean lives on a yot in the winters sailing around Italy other swanky locations. Then is the summer he goes to his 1000 acre mansion on lake front that's in the adirondack. While getting fresh lobster shipped in from maine and prime beef from japan.
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[loramin]

Originally Posted by dafier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Anyone and everyone who has donated to P99 must know that the funds are used for 'up keep' of the server. This can be interpreted in many many many different ways.

The truth is; Rogean, awesome person who not only supports his staff but has allowed us all to enjoy this experience has spent countless hours of personal time making sure we can get this wonderful experience.

The rest of the staff also do a ton of work, which is taken out of their personal time, whether it be smoking, drinking or actual work, in order to have this wonderful P99 'project'.

But....

I'll leave it at that. ***tin foil hats on***

GO!

It kinda depends on your definition of "rich".

Rogean is clearly an experienced IT expert. I don't know his exact specialty (eg. whether he's more pure IT or more dev-ops), so I can't provide a Glass Door link or anything, but regardless if the dude isn't making six figures he's doing something wrong.

Six figures in annual income might sound rich, but depending on where you live it really might not be (I make six figures in Silicon Valley and I certainly am not "rich"). Plus, servers cost a lot: Project 1999 is not something you can use a $20/month shared hosting service for, it's something you need "real servers" for.

Even if you ignore the one-time cost of the servers themselves (a few k each I'd imagine) the rack space alone is going to cost a few hundred a month. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I kind of doubt people give enough in donations to even cover the costs.

But even if I'm wrong, and folks donate say $600/month and the costs are only $400/month ... that's a net gain of $200/month, for a guy who makes like $20k a month. I promise you, he is not getting "rich" of P99.

[loramin]

Bah, I did bad math in my head. That should have said "makes like $10k a month" at the end there.

[Caiu]

DDoS protection isn't cheap.

[skarlorn]

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[dafier]

I beg to differ sir. With this new tech called VMs, this server can run on maybe 100$ a month and that includes ISP charges.

P99 since inception has made over 1 mil in donations. Pretty sure...

[skarlorn]

dafier = llandris

[loramin]

Originally Posted by dafier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I beg to differ sir. With this new tech called VMs, this server can run on maybe 100$ a month and that includes ISP charges.

P99 since inception has made over 1 mil in donations. Pretty sure...

Rogean posted pictures maybe a year ago of the physical machines co-located somewhere. I suppose he might have switched to AWS since then, but if he did I'd imagine we'd have heard about it.