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[policematrix]

Hi i like this site but have no spare cash not a penny sorry but if i had some i would donate for sure , my question is this why is the amount so high ? 

Is it just for server costs ? 

or does it incorporate a lot more ?

like you are asking for 250£ is this for a year or a month or what ?

 

[richy1976]

you can pay £2 per month for gold.

I thought it auto renewed where's my gold gone lol.

Edited by richy1976, 04 November 2013 - 03:32 PM.

[policematrix]

I'm sure it'll cost duplu alot more than £250 on hosting costs.

for a year ? 

[duplu]

As barcrest said the £250 donation is for Thunderstorm and not for hosting costs.  

 

Hosting costs are currently in the region of £800 a year.  This doesn't include any software maintenance costs or extras.

[policematrix]

wow £800 a year , that seems very expensive 

may i ask some questions like

Bandwidth required a month (aprox)

CPU power (max)

RAM

HD space required

 

 

ok i get 

70GB of HD space

3 GB ram

1 TB bandwidth 

CPU  Intel® Xeon® CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz

 

all for $5 a month and IP is UK based 

Edited by policematrix, 06 November 2013 - 06:07 AM.

[policematrix]

ok then ill leave you to it continue paying through the nose for all I care 

[Bencrest]

ok then ill leave you to it continue paying through the nose for all I care 

 

I'm pretty sure Duplu knows what he is doing. Thanks for proving that a leopard can't change it's spots.

[policematrix]

A suggested correction to your post.

bj

well ive tried to help on numerous occasions but get met with a brick wall about how much bandwidth is needed ect and anyway you wouldn't like it if i left  

[policematrix]

 

I'm pretty sure Duplu knows what he is doing. Thanks for proving that a leopard can't change it's spots.

i never said he didnt , I was just asking for some statistics to see if i could find a better deal I don't see how you guys can take offence to such things ? 

[duplu]

 

wow £800 a year , that seems very expensive 

may i ask some questions like

Bandwidth required a month (aprox)

CPU power (max)

RAM

HD space required

 

 

ok i get 

70GB of HD space

3 GB ram

1 TB bandwidth 

CPU  Intel® Xeon® CPU           E5520  @ 2.27GHz

 

all for $5 a month and IP is UK based 

 

 

Sorry but real life has taken over, hence my late reply.

 

Running a website isn't always about specs but about service and how a company reacts to problems.  Your $5 server is going to be shutdown in a heartbeat if you over step the mark on resources as we have had done to us a number of times before getting a dedicated server.  Bare in mind that the FE server also runs another 12 web sites as well, mostly for nothing.  We use a ton of processor power (being a PHP/MySQL website) and also a ton of bandwidth. 

[Magz]

Actually about £66 per month is pretty good for a dedicated server. We'd struggle to put that together with the required bandwidth (my company offers this sort of service - don't worry I'm not touting for this business),

 

That said PM's deal also sounds decent - a bit too decent in fact. If the IPs are UK based, I can only assume there's some sort of sharing of the server or that the IP is tunnelled back to the UK. That said, PM, I'd be interested in the details. 70GB storage, of course, is a tad light .

 

As Duplu says, it's not just the spec but the support, uptime guarantees and general attitude of the hosting company that makes the difference. I can't imagine that $60 per year is a service that's got much in the way of resiliency in it!

[policematrix]

ill PM you the details I rent a VPS but IPs are UK based 

[MT31]

hi all,as for my first post i would just like to say i would love to donate to this site but unfortunately im at war with paypal at the minute and unable to open a paypal account,is there any other way i can donate without using paypal 

[stanmarsh14]

ok then ill leave you to it continue paying through the nose for all I care 

 

Thing is, most here don't take too kindly to your quite agressive and pushy attertude, hence why you are being faced with a brick wall.

It could very well be you have a good price here for the service, but when you talk to someone with a crappy attertude, it's quite understandable you would NOT want to deal with that person, and would go elsewhere.

Bit like the difference between geting internet access through say Griffin Internet (A very well known local buisness type ISP based in Derby), and TalkTalk....... one although you do pay a bit for the service, you get fantastic support at one place, where as the other is cheap as chips, but the support is absolutaly crap!

Also let's face it, you don't have all that great a rep on these forums anyway!

[Dougsta]

I don't have a penny to donate and I've never contributed to the site otherwise, but let me just wade in and criticise the way the site is run.

 

I'm sure you can copy and paste yet another dumb internet article for us, this time on the price-fixing conspiracy behind high hosting costs.

[MT31]

cheers barcrest iv sent a pm to Duplu