Dedicated Server

[Soup Parrot]

Teadrinker is asking the questions I've been wondering. The booty content, since there is no registration and many hackers have firewalls and all, they could be sabatoging this site, to take you down. Whats to stop a person with hacking skills to go in there swap and sabotoge the files? I dont know that much about this, but, is there some way to make access harder, and monitor who has access.

My donations through winter months have to be small, I live in all electric  and we are are extreme cold, so any extra I have not covered by basics, is shrinking due to the heat bill. I have no interest in website options, but what about making ourselves a club or organizaion with small dues, that a lot could afford, including the kids. Though not optional to be registered to site, maybe membership gives special avatar tile, I dont know.

updated: I think occasionally the phorum wigs out, but I have had problems with booty or even front page. Luckily I use my history, and go directly to forum. another server company or option sonds good. If they are pressuring Pescado for time, I get real hesitant, that they are saying he must do it now. Sounds like a scam.

[Duckie]

I agree with teadrinker on this. If we decide to pay that much for a dedicated server, regardless of why, we'll end up with rum on our faces.

I support the membership only downloads, the email system, even having sections of files hosted on members ISP space. That being said, I have ISP space and will shortly have web space where I can either host a section of files or hold them to email to requesting members.

As for access to the site, in the past couple of weeks, I've only been unable to access the site once. A couple of other times it's been slow to load but that's it.

[Pescado]

Luckily I use my history, and go directly to forum. another server company or option sonds good. If they are pressuring Pescado for time, I get real hesitant, that they are saying he must do it now. Sounds like a scam.

Actually, they more specifically stated that the servers were limited in supply and would sell out. If this happens, we will have to investigate alternative options. One option under investigation is to, as an alternative, purchase a bunch of hosting packages distributed everywhere and mirror the sites. Cheaper solutions are also being investigated. In any case, rum and whores never hurt, right?

[Tchannie]

Where are you getting the whores from? Not our cash, eh?

The phorum hates me. Half the time it won't open or it shuts down when I'm in the middle of a post. If it does I just give up now.

[BlueSoup]

Where are you getting the whores from? Not our cash, eh?

Surely you didn't miss the rum disclaimer in Pescado's first post in this thread.  If he doesn't raise enough money, the money will go towards rum

[Anouk]

Can't you put up a donation button, get your own server for less than 2100 dollars and start selling space and bandwidth to cover some of the cost in the future? Cheapo hosting plans?

[Pescado]

Can't you put up a donation button, get your own server for less than 2100 dollars and start selling space and bandwidth to cover some of the cost in the future? Cheapo hosting plans?

That's what we're doing.

Plus if you buy one, you get to be a Baron.

[Soup Parrot]

well let us know the final direction or plan you finnalize, and I hope it will be paypal and I will send as  I can.

[Tchannie]

Where are you getting the whores from? Not our cash, eh?

Surely you didn't miss the rum disclaimer in Pescado's first post in this thread.  If he doesn't raise enough money, the money will go towards rum

I got the rum reference, yes.
The whores were something else though.
TBTH *wince* it reminded me of that nasty Open House Jack thread...

[Soup Parrot]

I didnt get that, i saw the whore and rum connection to pirates...When i was a kid been through Rirates of the Carribean ride a few times.

[CrimsonPirate]

I don't have money to spare, but I do have extra web space and bandwidth if you need it.  :wink:

[Surelyfunke]

So, Pescado, Bluesoup, Piratebooty and myself are expected to cough up $2100 amongst ourselves to pay for a new server, which is filled with a bunch of payfiles (that we ourselves coughed up the cash for), for all of you to download - for free?

No, you're not expected to do anything. Self righteous much?

Of course, of course. I am always right!  Always!

[toomanyguppys]

I'm on dial-up and it's generally been more frustrating for me to try and dl from mts2 than from here.  

I'd say it's a good time to be looking around at options that might improve things, but the situation doesn't seem dire enough to be making big decisions or purchases, not yet anyway.

The major impact of this site hasn't been that the files are available for free anyway.  I mean, yeah, it's nice and all but the real impact of all those files sitting there for free for anyone who chooses to take them is (I believe) more symbolic than anything else.  Anyone who is really dying to actually download them can bloody well wait til the site is feeling frisky--and while they are waiting they can think about how stupid the paysite system is in the first place and can become one more person in the community who is willing to actually speak OUT about it here or on one of the other sites.

If a good solution for a speedier/more dependable system presents itself, great, but the main thing right now is to keep doing what we've been doing and not start coming apart at the seams--because all this has really begun to make an amazing impact...all due to this site.

YMMV, of course.

[ChineseFood]

I like Teadrinker's idea of a forum setting, free membership, members-only downloads.  People should be encouraged to donate to help with hosting cost, but all downloads should be kept completely free, of course.  It would be very cool to have a list of every single person who has donated and how much they gave, and exactly how much the hosting bill is.  That way people can see exactly where their money went and how much of an impact they made, and be publicly acknowledged for it, and others would see this and want to donate, too.  

I think $2100 is a lot of money...  But I know nothing about web hosting.

[Soup Parrot]

Chinese their basically buying their own computer with 2100. So the computer is not running other sites, except MATY and if they some site hosting. For that price though you could get more HD. My computer was custom built for less than that, and I had two HDS of 200 GBtes each.

If 500 people donated $5 each that would be $2500.