Mysteron Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 I never get any of this.A friend of mine is a reporter for a large UK newspaper and he has his own website which attracts around 500,000 readers a day, yet he pays £50 a year, if that, for hosting, and his website is always fast and smooth.I am not that educated in running websites, but this forum has 100-200 users at a time. Where is the cost here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randalemann Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 sorry i can't click the add banner's because i use addblock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Does it add money to the forum if we click on the ads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvoltage Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 I never get any of this.A friend of mine is a reporter for a large UK newspaper and he has his own website which attracts around 500,000 readers a day, yet he pays £50 a year, if that, for hosting, and his website is always fast and smooth.I am not that educated in running websites, but this forum has 100-200 users at a time. Where is the cost here?Forums are different - http://www.invisionpower.com/hosting/advanced.phpIf you consider that during high periods of news, this site attracts upwards of 500 visitors (ie, the Hall of Fame ceremony recently), you can see how the cost could easily be between $300-$400 a month.Over time, that's far from pocket change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siamese Democracy Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Maybe it would be a good idea if the mods/news reporters helped out Eric finacially as it is almost their site as well. They shape the forum much more than Eric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysteron Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I never get any of this.A friend of mine is a reporter for a large UK newspaper and he has his own website which attracts around 500,000 readers a day, yet he pays £50 a year, if that, for hosting, and his website is always fast and smooth.I am not that educated in running websites, but this forum has 100-200 users at a time. Where is the cost here?Forums are different - http://www.invisionpower.com/hosting/advanced.phpIf you consider that during high periods of news, this site attracts upwards of 500 visitors (ie, the Hall of Fame ceremony recently), you can see how the cost could easily be between $300-$400 a month.Over time, that's far from pocket change.I see what you are saying. The hosting costs quoted are extraordinary Is there no way of creating your own sql based custom forum, so you can host somewhere cheaper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvoltage Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I never get any of this.A friend of mine is a reporter for a large UK newspaper and he has his own website which attracts around 500,000 readers a day, yet he pays £50 a year, if that, for hosting, and his website is always fast and smooth.I am not that educated in running websites, but this forum has 100-200 users at a time. Where is the cost here?Forums are different - http://www.invisionpower.com/hosting/advanced.phpIf you consider that during high periods of news, this site attracts upwards of 500 visitors (ie, the Hall of Fame ceremony recently), you can see how the cost could easily be between $300-$400 a month.Over time, that's far from pocket change.I see what you are saying. The hosting costs quoted are extraordinary Is there no way of creating your own sql based custom forum, so you can host somewhere cheaper?I should say, I'm no longer involved in the running of the site in any way (and never was in a technical sense) - but for the sake of answering....- Yes you could code your own board, but that would be an enormous undertaking. A better alternative would be to use another kind of SQL based forum (some are free), but converting to a different package is difficult. For a forum this size, it would almost certainly come with many unavoidable complications and headaches.- You can run an Invision board with a different hosting company, but you have to purchase a license from Invision to do that. You also lose Invision's direct tech support by running with a different host - given how old this board is and how many small issues it throws up on a regular basis, that would be undesirable. You're right that the costs are very high, but they do include support - and Invision boards are some of the best there are in terms of features (albeit, not the most stable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDRE Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about?winner!!! deleting and combining sections would lower the server cost big time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvoltage Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about?winner!!! deleting and combining sections would lower the server cost big time...The server costs are related to online users. That's it. So this is incorrect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about?winner!!! deleting and combining sections would lower the server cost big time...The server costs are related to online users. That's it. So this is incorrect.Regardless, I still think the number of sections should be reduced. Back i'n '05-'07 when this board was very active it was quite useful, but now each section moves rather slow and I think it'd make the place seem more lively to compact everything down.For instance I never go into the picture section anymore, yet there's probably some good threads in there that I'd peruse if it was merged with Anything Goes. I know this would take time, but I think a bit of decluttering and reorganising would really benefit this place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about?winner!!! deleting and combining sections would lower the server cost big time...The server costs are related to online users. That's it. So this is incorrect.Regardless, I still think the number of sections should be reduced. Back i'n '05-'07 when this board was very active it was quite useful, but now each section moves rather slow and I think it'd make the place seem more lively to compact everything down.For instance I never go into the picture section anymore, yet there's probably some good threads in there that I'd peruse if it was merged with Anything Goes. I know this would take time, but I think a bit of decluttering and reorganising would really benefit this place.I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Would it help if you were to shrink it? As in, delete accounts that haven't been accessed in a long time or lose some of these sections that no one really cares about?winner!!! deleting and combining sections would lower the server cost big time...The server costs are related to online users. That's it. So this is incorrect.Regardless, I still think the number of sections should be reduced. Back i'n '05-'07 when this board was very active it was quite useful, but now each section moves rather slow and I think it'd make the place seem more lively to compact everything down.For instance I never go into the picture section anymore, yet there's probably some good threads in there that I'd peruse if it was merged with Anything Goes. I know this would take time, but I think a bit of decluttering and reorganising would really benefit this place.I agree.As do I. The sub-sections for the old tours could be changed too. Those are hardly active anymore for the most part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siamese Democracy Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I think Chloe should kick up some $$$, some ching-ching, some paper, some lettuce, some loot, dolla bills yo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I think Chloe should kick up some $$$, some ching-ching, some paper, some lettuce, some loot, dolla bills yo....what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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