How to monetize a highly specialized communication site for self-sufficiency?

Question

Monetization

I need to make a site on a highly specialized topic, mainly for articles and communication.
It will not work to expand the topic (let's say this is the topic "everything about Hare Krishnas", you can't put "about religion in general" there).
I do not plan to make money on it, but I would like the hosting and domain to pay off at the expense of the site.
Nevertheless, apparently not for adwords - because. all sorts of "fighters against totalitarian sects" fit into the context with their revelations and calls to Christianity.
Tell me the best way to do this for a fresh site and how long it will take to achieve such self-profitability so that I no longer have to pay for it from the family budget.
Thank you.

Answer 1

I don't plan to make money from it.

So this is your hobby. A hobby usually requires expenses for it (a hobby that does not require any expenses is becoming a rarity in the 21st century).
Edsense will not work well on such topics. Firstly, in order to have something with Adsense, you need quite a lot of traffic, but where can you get it in such a narrow topic? Secondly, not all types of traffic are equally useful (for Adsense), solvent traffic is needed, but where does it come from in such a topic? Thirdly, the very presence of Adsense (as well as any advertising) makes the site frankly commercial and scares away a non-commercialized audience (such as yours) from it, that is, hits / visits and behavioral activity that Google observes (through this same Adsense block) will fall . If the behavioral activity worsens, the site will go down in the issuance of Google, which will further reduce traffic.
What can be recommended:
1. Get rid of "I do not plan to make money on this" or put up with the costs.
2. Try to somehow promote the money of the clients themselves (now these are not just visitors). For example, organize some donations. But this is where social engineering begins, purely technical methods are not applicable here.

Answer 2

so yoptes, you yourself named the source of income: sectarians.
place the button "Support the project" with a link to the payment. Your sectarians will pray for you (pronounce mantras and yantras and a lot of things) and put their denyuzhki. Believe me, dear Hare Krishnas are nice and soft people, and you will collect more from them than from all advertising campaigns.
More for communication - put a star in the avatar for users, to raise karma, let's say for those who donated or "admin mantra" in the profile ...

Answer 3

Sell ​​Hare Krishna literature and tambourines (or whatever you Krishnas call them)

Answer 4

host some freehosting on Beget, a domain - the day of refusing coffee / pifa
for advertising, of course, the consumer pays for advertising, if the audience is not at all in the subject - nothing will work,
although fortune-telling and love spells of loved ones will go well for business, it seems to me

Answer 5

Sell ​​a subscription to use the site or materials on it. more details at resou[email protected]