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Old 01-04-2010, 08:23   #67
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re: Hyndburn Life - Well Would You Believe it?

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss View Post
£591,000???

It is interesting to note that none of that money came directly from Hyndburn Council but how can that figure possibly be justified? Millions of people around the world host fantastic and vastly informative websites for a pittance but this was passed through as a good use of tax revenue and value for money??

Let's just work on the principle that an administrator works two hours a day on maintaining the site on a generous wage of £10 per hour (within which I'll include the cost of the domain name per day) you could run a website for over 80 years.

Even if someone was employed full-time on a wage of £15,000 per year just to update it you could still keep it going for over 39 years for that price.

I'm disgusted with every councillor who voted in favour of this proposal, it is an absolute disgrace.
Just to let you know Ken, you're on one of the:-

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fantastic and vastly informative websites for a pittance
But with hidden costs such as software updates & Running servers to give it enough space, the bill comes to quite a large pittance each month.

If it wasn't for the regular donations from some members the site would not be here.
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Last edited by Neil; 01-04-2010 at 12:06.
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