When I was doing the PUG, it was about 10 hours per month of my time, plus several hours per month for a half dozen or so other volunteers. Of course, I didn't have the brains to automate the system, so all the coding was done by hand.
I don't know how much time investment per month it is now. Igor did express some concerns to me regarding band width, and for those of you who go back far enough, this was the main reason for the file size restrictions we enforced onto the submitters. I believe we were using, on a busy month, close to 5 gigabytes of server bandwidth. I expect that this number has increased somewhat, as the gallery is now somewhat bigger. One of the things I like about the PUG is the lack of slickness. It doesn't have a bunch of flashing lights and banners crawling around it. If we do have to relocate, I hope we can do it in a non commercial fashion, and keep the flavour of the PUG the same as it has been. Interestingly, the PUG is one of the older, if not the oldest, continuously running photo galleries on the internet. It is something we can all be proud of, and I think it is something worth supporting in any way necessary. William Robb
