The cost of operating DoRoyal is increasing, so we’re adding service fees that strictly and exclusively counteract PayPal’s fees. We’re doing this to ensure future stability in a market that is, quite frankly, pretty unstable right now. We’ve been caught off-guard a few times with random and unannounced price increases to various services and licenses that we offer or use. We’re not a megacorporation, so we can’t just eat every single increase from our side, and to be blunt, we expect more increases within the very near future. By enacting a service fee (that only covers PayPal fees) we’re trying to anticipate and mitigate changes to our operating costs while keeping our core consumer-level rates as low as possible, ideally with zero changes at all.

Starting immediately, all transactions will have an 11.39% + $0.30 service fee. 

Why Make The Customer Pay?

There’s no easy answer to this, other than sustainability. While DoRoyal is in no way at risk of going out of business, that isn’t to say we’re infallible. We are a business just like any other, and we operate with the common assumption that the global market will continue to be stable, and predictable. This assumption is no longer proving to be true. We’ve already seen an increase of over 150%, and we’re not even half way into 2025 yet. 

We need to be able to prepare for the unknown. 

What Comes Next?

The service fees are our way of trying to avoid a traditional price increase. We don’t want to start selling website hosting plans that rival the likes of GoDaddy or HostGator in price. That’s just not who we are. One of our core philosophies as a hosting provider is to offer the absolute best service possible, at the absolute lowest price. We’ve never been in this thing for profit, nor will that ever be our focus. We just want to host your website, now and forever. 

So, what comes next? Well, ideally nothing. We’ll keep mitigating the PayPal fees for a while, and then once the global market calms down and things become a lot more stable and predictable, we’ll see about reducing or fully eliminating the fees altogether. Again, we’re not here for the profit, we’re here for the websites. We’re here to host.