well i offered her free hosting on WNF way back when she was starting her site and using our site MySimSite for free help setting up her [then] free site.
At the time she decided on a different free host and I helped answer her questions when she did move to paid hosting.
I had told her she was always welcome to join the family, and that if she ever needed help, we were there for her.

I had no idea she had started charging for downloads, once our family is back up, we're going to have to remove our links to her. It's a shame that she decided to start charging for items, with us offering free hosting...especially since Sims3 is out and there are less people even downloading sims2 content, let alone paying for it. It's even weirder that shes charging for previously free items that have been available for ages.

warning: my post may piss off some "loyal" sfv members, but I too was an active sfv member so I have a right to say something.


this is the stupidest thing ive ever heard and anyone who falls for it is a dumbass....doesnt this sound like the exact same bullshit that paysite owners (and other shady site owners) have pulled time and time again?
and this whole attitude of "fuck you guys, you dont need to know because youre telling me im wrong and not buying what im saying to you" thing is more bullshit.

If you need help, you have to accept ALL kinds of help, not just money.

I'm glad you finally answered the question--its the expensive bloated forum software causing the problem and thats what she needs money for. You can think you're right all you want, but many people have proven you wrong--you can host a large site (especially one that doesnt really use attachments like SFV) with tons of people spamming constantly, for cheap or free. You guys have a grudge against pescado--fine. But you shouldnt be punishing your visitors for something so trivial and childish.

SFV could be back up already and back to "normal" but you guys are dragging ass and being difficult and you dont need to be. So although I told people I'd try to help, I'm not going to bother anymore since all you guys want is money and nothing else it seems.

This whole thing reeks of bullshit and scam.


btw where are sherry/pas/anyone else who was in charge over at SFV? why is only RDS posting over here? doesnt that seem odd to anyone else? and why is SIH not disabling the forum and putting up a webpage explaining what the problem is so people can help her out like she has before?

i dont mean to poke sticks, but shes the only one here typing and trying to get money.
i was pointed here to try and help, because people are missing SFV (and some people were asking me if i knew of a solution)
RDS seems confused and its confusing everyone else, so im trying to clarify things by pointing out the inconsistencies to try to get real answers and not more confusion.
sorry if i seem mean

rds, most forums have more members than that. so that "too many members" thing is bullshit unless you had that many people online AT ONCE, and not even mts2 has that happen....and each time i was on sfv there was no more than 10 people sitting on the site posting.

Also, you said she just paid for the server, but youre talking about the forum software. Forum software and server hosting are completely different....and this makes me wonder if you guys understand forums/hosting at all? Or if you mean that she renewed hosting and paid for the forum at the same time?

If she just paid for the server (her hosting), then she can disable the forum and put up a page telling everyone wtf is going on.
If you mean that she just paid for the forum (the expensive bloated software you guys were posting on), then she should be looking for new hosting that can handle the forum (although honestly godaddy should be able to keep hosting it)

phpbb may not be the best solution, but just because ONE free software fails you, doesnt mean all of them will. Pay items are not always better than free ones -- like sims crap lol

How would Pes hosting you guys not work? I provide hosting with Nouk to over 40 sites, we dont get involved in what they do on them (unless it effects the server), Pes can host you guys and not touch the site ever except when you need tech help. Providing hosting does NOT mean being involved in any way. So it CAN work, you guys just dont want to do it?

im sorry that she is going through RL stuff right now, but throwing money at a broken site is not going to fix it. She needs to figure out WHICH is the problem: the forum or the hosting and find a better solution. Nouk and I (and others) have already said this. If she doesnt have time for it right now, which it sounds like she doesnt, why doesnt she just ask Pescado to host, give him her soul to set up SMF or something real quick (it takes 15min, ive done it multiple times), and you guys can be back on your merry way without her having to worry about it anymore?

ok, im confused and probably will sound like a bitch lol

is she wanting donations to help her continue to pay for the bloated, unnecessarily expensive forum software she just switched to (and wasted hundreds of dollars on)
or is she wanting donations to help her pay for her hosting with godaddy (or to upgrade it to handle the new forum software)

Like nouk was saying, it seems a bit shady. For two months, all everyone hears is "i dont know whats going on, shes been busy, blah blah blah" now suddenly she needs money, but is asking through you and not posting here herself or explaining what SFV needs donations for.

If its for the forum software, all she has to do is disable it and put up a webpage explaining wtf is going on.
Also, just because phpbb didnt float SFV's boat, doesnt mean other free forum software wont. SMF does everything that ipboard does, and can be modified easily, you dont need to pay hundreds of dollars for a geek to hold your hand with it or install it for you. I dont even know why she moved there. You guys can do the requesting thing on any forum, because the files arent being hosted there. You should even be able to do it on free forum hosting. All you guys have at SFV is threads, barely any attachments. You guys shouldnt be using up all your cpu resources causing godaddy to freak out on you either...

I hope you SFV people are willing (this time around) to ask pescado or someone (hell even me with my limited knowledge) before jumping in and wasting money like last time...not all of us can contribute cash, but we can contribute opinions, experience, etc. And anyone with cash to blow, should wait until they hear real details about what the money will be spent on....

if the server is fine, why is the site unreachable unless she intentionally took it down?
she just paid a shitload of money to move to that..crap board..i mean ipboard  so if it was a forum issue, all she'd have to do is contact them and say 'halp site down' and they'd fix it.
I wonder if her godaddy hosting couldnt handle the new board software?
does anyone know whats really going on?

thomas refers to tsr as a business, and is requiring you guys in the UK to pay VAT, but he hasnt registered tsr as a business (says so on that download tool page) and how much you want to bet they arent even paying taxes?
anyone who is paying for tsr and paying for that VAT should file complaints with the government and get them to investigate, and report it to paypal since paypal apparently has a rule on how much you can charge for VAT (someone mentioned 15%)

I think the reason that he did this is, as someone else said earlier, is because tsr is losing subscribers and wants to make as much money off the ones he's got left. He's "hired" more FA's to produce more content to replace the ones that barely upload, the ones that normally upload elsewhere have not been lately (probably got told by thomas not to), and EA didnt invite them to the latest event--leaving them with no spoilers/review to give to their visitors. Plus it seems everywhere you go in this community, people link to pmbd when mentioning TSR instead of linking to tsr itself.

lets hope this is the beginning of the end of tsr

yes i just came back here to let you guys know that her hubby changed it to blog format to make it easier for her to update so once they get everything put back on there, she may actually be updating when she has time

sorry to push you guys back on-topic, but i contacted alicefashion again to see if she'd be ok with her items being put on the graveyard, and she said she would be ok with it, but that she has talked to a friend about fixing the broken files.
So the broken files may be fixed soon, but if any of you have any of her files could you send them to the graveyard? Once her site is working properly again, they'll be taken down.

Ok dont hate me, I did search first and i couldnt find where we had discussed alice fashion.
http://www.alicefashion.com
Paysite, hasnt been updated for over 6 months.

People have been wondering on various forums wtf is going on with the site. While others dont care at all, I figured I'd try to contact her and see what was going on.
my email to her (sent to her paypal addy yesterday):

her response an hour later:

So alicefashion is dead. Hopefully she will take down the donation sets and put up a news notice to let her visitors know.
If you have been trying to contact her using her contact form and havent gotten a response, try the email address on her paypal page.
Considering I got a response within an hour, anyone who has donated should still be getting their donation items (which means no scamming going on), but it sucks for those people trying to download free items since none of them work :|
But yay, a new baby! What a wonderful reason to stop simming

well, most sites are not small for very long, even if they themselves dont advertise their site, word of mouth gets them lots of visitors. Tyler's site (simplysims2) officially opened last month and would already be hitting the max on your small plan--without really even advertising the site anywhere besides mts2/s2c/pmbd sigs lol

hostingplan-wise i think
small = 0-20gb
medium = 20-75gb
large = 75-125gb
xlarge = 125gb-200gb
uber large =200gb or higher (nouk/lapink/graveyard)

half of wnf would be using your "adult" plan, those are our smaller sites. the other half would need a larger plan.

examples using wnf stats from last month:
sims2vips and illusions of grandeur  both used 40gb each
kamikitten used 75gb (i think it was her first month with us at that point)
pixel dolly used about 30gb
adele-sims and poisonpinklemons both used over 100gb each
wnf site itself used over 50gb
lapink used over 200gb
stefan used about 75gb
subkitten used 60gb

note: this is just bandwidth usage, most people do not need more than 5-10gb of space unless they are nouk or larger than nouk.

and i bet you havent heard of most of their sites lol
compared to nouk though, all of these sites are "small", nouk is medium, and some of the more famous sites would be considered large.

as i said before, you could either host a few medium sized sites or a bunch of tiny beginner sites, but eventually they'd become popular and you'd need to upgrade.
Oh and i dont know why you're offering so many sql databases, most people only need ONE, if any. And your host probably wont even allow them to use more than one because it will "get too popular" and start "using too many cpu resources"  :roll: (thats what most shared hosts do)

You definitely wouldnt be able to help out the more popular sites or any paysites due to their bandwidth usage, sql usage, etc they would need more than what you could offer on shared hosting on a server you dont own. So I hope you dont get too ambitious with this thing lol But i hope you can help out some small sites

also, im not a pro at this, i've only been doing the server thing for 6 months now, and have been hosting sites for a little over a year. I'm basing this more on my experience than anything else. Delphy, kathy, pes, would be more in-the-know about these things than i would lol

funny, offline normally the baby's daddy just sits around not doing anything besides knocking people up, yet in WNF, he does more work than you do nouk lol


ya know, if you werent amazing in bed, i'd have divorced you ages ago :p

ok silver this is annoying. it's not JUST NOUK. stop forgetting about me
you keep saying nouk nouk nouk.
its wickednoukfamily, many people, not JUST NOUK.
lol geez

nouk just sits around and looks pretty! and she gets all the damn glory while i sit here all invisible doing all the work


im just kidding nouk i love you dont hurt me


as for donations, we barely get enough and we let people know a month in advance. Insim has more visitors, more creators, and higher hosting fees. I'm surprised kathy says they havent been getting enough donations. I agree a donation meter of some sort...or just a progress report of how much is still needed would probably get more people to donate. I know we've been told by several people that they donate to us because they can clearly see our expenses, our goal, and our progress.
I hope this all gets worked out

my first time posting in this thread i think....i'm normally not proud enough of my work to do previews of it before i release it lol

This is my first real mesh, I took one of warlokks bodyshapes and added marvine's shoes to it, modified the mesh a bit, then made some corsets for it, valentines sort of mood
I'm still new to this whole making clothes thing too, so it took me the last 3 weeks or so to make the mesh and the outfits :?

They will be part of this coming WNF Aspiration Set (which will be posted when we reach our donation drive goal, which will hopefully be by wednesday)
And before anyone asks: the hair in the pics is nouk's contribution to the aspiration set...and the bed in the pics is tyler's contribution to the aspiration set lol

just a note to you guys thinking of using wordpress....the more plugins/scripts you use, the longer the pages take to load and the more cpu resources you use up so make sure you keep it as light as possible, and if you're limited on bandwidth, get a plugin that can help you monitor that.
Wordpress is better about cpu resources than phpbb or the like though.
I dont really have much experience with wordpress, but I read a bit when nouk was thinking of switching over to it to find out about how much it uses up.