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• Bandwidth Exceeded by RedRotors on 30 Jul, 2007 16:00
• Hi,
  
  For the ones that saw the problem of BW exceeded, i fixed the problem today by upgrading the hosting plan.. With more than 1.4 billions of hits/month and more than 20gigs of traffic a month, i had to make a new move..
  
  Now we have 1k Gig of bandwith/month, we should have enough for a few years..
  
  Cheers!
  Marc/
• #1 by burn_your_money on 30 Jul, 2007 17:16
• Nice to see you are on top of things
  
  1.4 billion hits/month :shock:
  
  I guess we need to donate some more money eh? lol
• #2 by RedRotors on 31 Jul, 2007 03:06
• Not for now.. i'll post next year for the donation campaign.. We will probably have some more hit onthe service, the time that the site move to a new server and new DNS.. but it should be not too bad at all..  :wink:
  
  I was also impressed by the number of hits.. i'll post the complete stats later for those who are interested..
  
  Marc/
• #3 by jtanguay on 31 Jul, 2007 04:17
• i might get flamed for this, but maybe a little advertising wouldn't be so bad.  its just popups that come out of nowhere that are annoying.
  
  one little banner could probably pay for the hosting needs of this site indefinitely.  then nobody would have to donate.  
  
  anyways, just an idea...
• #4 by Turbinepowered on 31 Jul, 2007 05:27
• Given how much this place has already educated and helped me out, I don't mind donating at all. Might not be much, but it should help.
  
  If I knew how.
• #5 by foxracer1 on 31 Jul, 2007 13:57
• Don't forget the damn spammers wasting valuable hits.
• #6 by VWRacer on 31 Jul, 2007 15:30
• Quote from: "foxracer1"

  Don't forget the damn spammers wasting valuable hits.

  
  Yep...there is one right now named "doktorhotgirl" on the Section Francaise Generale. Those bastards gotta be accounting for a lot of hits.  :evil:
• #7 by RabbitJockey on 31 Jul, 2007 16:11
• so how is this site paid for i remember it being discussed but i don't remember how its taken care of... cause there is no advertising which is awesome
• #8 by burn_your_money on 31 Jul, 2007 16:45
• Donations. There used to be a thread sticked with paypal info but I don't see it right now (I didn't look hard though)
• #9 by jtanguay on 31 Jul, 2007 22:44
• so you would rather pay donations than have one simple banner on the site which could pay for the entire thing? as long as it isn't perverse, i'm cool with it.
  
  donations = low band
  banners = high band, and a little extra dough for the guy running the site.. still non profit but time is money!
• #10 by burn_your_money on 01 Aug, 2007 07:02
• I agree with you jtanguay, a small banner ad would not bother me at all, or even a set of google ads.
  But it's not my site so I'll just keep donating money It's money well spent IMO
• #11 by jtanguay on 01 Aug, 2007 21:45
• Quote from: "burn_your_money"

  I agree with you jtanguay, a small banner ad would not bother me at all, or even a set of google ads.
  But it's not my site so I'll just keep donating money It's money well spent IMO

  
  
  true that
• #12 by Kudagra on 02 Aug, 2007 15:39
• Quote from: "jtanguay"

  Quote from: "burn_your_money"

  I agree with you jtanguay, a small banner ad would not bother me at all, or even a set of google ads.
  But it's not my site so I'll just keep donating money It's money well spent IMO

  
  
  true that

  
  
  Really Im ok with donating and a small banner.
• #13 by RabbitJockey on 02 Aug, 2007 20:26
• yeah if were getting this kind of traffic  i would imagine some google ads or a banner would really pay.