| Hope you are doing well this month and enjoying our great hobby. This month I wanted to reach out to our basic (free) members to try and explain why we have a subscription option and why it is so important to RCSB for them to subscribe.
Contrary to what most people think, the internet is not free. There are cost involved when hosting a high traffic site that include things like server fees, bandwidth usage charges, software licensing, etc. RCSB is not a site you can host on a $39.95 a month hosting plan. Our cost runs between $400 and $700 (depending on the amount of traffic) a month to keep the site up and running. Most sites offset this cost with many advertisers. Well I don’t know if you have looked around lately but the majority of scale r/c vendors that are still around and who are potential advertisers are mostly holding on by the skin of their teeth, or their margins are so narrow they just don’t have the funds to advertise. The majority of them are not big companies but small mom and pop operations mostly working out of their homes. With that said, we are lucky to have about a dozen vendors who support what we are doing and pay yearly advertising fees to have their banner ads displayed on RCSB but that revenue is a tiny fraction of what we need to operate.
This is why RCSB is mostly funded by a modest yearly subscription making our subscribing members the heartbeat of the site and heroes in my eyes. By subscribing, you not only help keep the site going but it is important to me to offer you as much as I can for your generosity. As a RCSB Site Supporter subscriber, you gain access to the list of premium resources below designed to elevate your research, purchasing, and building experience:
• Vendor Resource Guide: A curated quarterly guide listing scale related vendors, helping find the best products, materials and tools. • Monthly Walk-Arounds: The walk-around forum offers you the last 24 months of full-scale subject walk-arounds you can download. • Plans Repository: Access over 100 scale model plans to kick start a project you are looking for. • 3D Parts Repository: Explore a library of 3D-printable parts to enhance your builds with precision details. • Resource Repository: Tap into a wealth of exclusive templates, fonts, and manuals to help with your modeling. • Scale Model Finder: Discover what is available in plans, kits, and ARF's through our specialized search tool. • Monthly Special Offers Forum: Unlock exclusive deals and discounts from vendors, available only to subscribers. This last year we offers over $275 average in discounts.
Summing things up... By subscribing to RCSB, you not only just get access to these premium tools and content, you are investing in the community and ensuring its future. Subscribe today and take your R/C scale passion to new heights!
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Until next month, Mike | 
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