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Note about the FNFT Website

If you've been reading my Slack message (both of you), you know that I recently moved the hosting of the FNFT website away from GoDaddy to a new services called Netlify. My motivation for doing that was that GoDaddy was about to charge me $236 for another year of website hosting. Netlify is free. ChatGPT talked me through the whole process and it seems to be working well.

Well, I discovered now that Netlify may not be as "free" as I had hoped. Their "free" version gives you 300 "credits" per month and they dock you credits for all sorts of things - 15 credits every time I publish the site, 1 credit every 1,000 page views, and some other less common things. During the season, when I am publishing the site a lot ('Publishing' is every time I update the standings and weekly boxscore - which I do at least 4x/week; Wed, Thur, Sat, and Sun. Add to that when I have to republish it because I made a mistake on something.) the 300 credits will be barely enough, and with all of you looking at the website as often as you do {clears throat} I will likely run out of credits some months before the renewal cycle. If this happens, my options will be to wait to publish the stats until the calendar turns and spend that time cleaning up eggs, or go up to the paid level which gives me 1,000 credits per month.

I'm going to keep this on the free version until I have to switch, but that means I won't be able to post random league notes on the main site as often as I'd like to, so I will be using Slack more than I otherwise would. If you don't check Slack very often, I'd encourage you to do so. If you don't check it at all, I'd encourage you to start, and if you can't access it, I'd encourage you to figure out a way.

The free version will allow me to publish the site probably 12-13 times per month. That might be barely enough. The paid version will allow me to publish the site 60x per month which is way more than I ever would. The paid version is only $9/month and I only need it during the season. So $54 all year.

I've always paid $100/year to OnRoto for the stats. Starting last year I pay Alpha Anywhere $200/year for the software to run the roster system. The cost for the paid version of Netlify would essentially replace the GoDaddy hosting cost, so at the end of the day, the league finances are not all that different than they have recently been. I think I've had league fees at $30. They can probably stay at that.