I had no idea about hosting costs but I want to add that features on the main websites that involve plugins or paid development is funded by AGMs, as well as department funding/prizes so it’s not just the physical websites that cost money!
James and Sho are very generous with both their prizes and offers to help fund site things, especially last year when I was struggling to get on top of everything after buying a house and having to replace my boiler (I had no spare money for Habbox!!!) and I’m very grateful for that (tags @Sho; @despect
Also of course we get a lot of furniture and coin donations which help with prizes too. Anything we get donated means we don’t have to spend our hard earned money from our 9-5 jobs!
We are also donated space on another server for our development site (where we’ve been testing these new site features!!!)
In case anyone is worried although you may not see owners posting often I do have contact with Jin and communicate fairly regularly about stuff
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