Ok as most of you know this site was set up by me and Mac on Jan 1st at which point we both chucked a bit of money in to set up the forums software, get it hosted, buy the domain and advertise on google (which is where a lot ofpeople have found us!). We're now at the stage where we're still getting excellent results from the google advertising (which I've limited to £10 per month), but the forums are getting a bit slow and aren't displaying properly for some users at times.
I think this may be because of the type of hosting we have, which I'm interested in upgrading before we get much bigger. Obviously there's a small cost implication with this.
A lot of clubs charge a membership fee but I'm not really comfortable with doing that - we don't have anything to offer for the money just yet! (although we're trying to secure some good discounts etc). I've looked into advertising on the forums but I know from past experience that this doesn't ever make any money (maybe 50p/month hehe) so that's out the window.
So...not sure whether it'd be out of order to ask for donations or whether we should keep funding it ourselves. I'm not asking people to pledge money here...just wondering whether it would look wrong if maybe we set up a paypal account and collected the odd 50p when people have it spare to put towards upgrading the hosting etc?