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Post by Stranded Hatter on May 22, 2020 16:13:16 GMT
Won't put his name out there but thank you to the gent who has just put 100k paid views on for us, it's massively appreciated. We're absolutely flying through them at the moment so a massive thank you for any support. Another genuine question - what's the problem with ads? Didn't see them when they appeared briefly, but are they particularly intrusive? That'd be the only show-stopper for me. If they're not, it wouldn't bother me if ads did the funding rather than relying on donations/you guys. That said, I'd probably chip in something if this becomes the default board. Never considered doing so over there. I don’t think they’re too bad on proboards (compared to some sites I’ve seen) but if this became the only board I’d like to see us run ad free if possible.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on May 22, 2020 21:45:56 GMT
I'd bung a few quid in if this place became active again, but wont do it just yet if everyone buggers off back to the other forum.
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Post by suedehead on May 23, 2020 10:18:36 GMT
Another 100k views added today, much appreciated!
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Post by porthatter on May 24, 2020 20:36:21 GMT
Happy to help pay for this board if and when it is clear that this board is the future!
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Post by The Real Exile on May 24, 2020 20:43:14 GMT
That is up to the posters, people make a board... if everyone packs up and goes back to the old board then that is their choice.
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Post by porthatter on May 24, 2020 20:47:48 GMT
That is up to the posters, people make a board... if everyone packs up and goes back to the old board then that is their choice.
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Post by porthatter on May 24, 2020 20:49:03 GMT
I’ve noticed increased and varied traffic over the last few days so fingers crossed.
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Post by PSP on May 24, 2020 20:49:24 GMT
I’ve just paid for 100000 views. Not sure if I did it correctly though.
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Post by The Real Exile on May 24, 2020 20:54:14 GMT
Thank you, appreciated. You did it right
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Post by suedehead on May 24, 2020 21:37:45 GMT
I’ve just paid for 100000 views. Not sure if I did it correctly though. Nice one, PSP 👍🏼
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Post by Showergel on Jun 1, 2020 23:03:48 GMT
Just curious but why doesn't somebody just set up a Wordpress site with MyBB forum which can be customised, with a PayPal donation button? It wouldn't cost much at all per year. £40 quid for hosting and a tenner for the domain each year. Or is that more than what would be spent on here or marionsboard?
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Post by The Real Exile on Jun 2, 2020 10:35:24 GMT
Just curious but why doesn't somebody just set up a Wordpress site with MyBB forum which can be customised, with a PayPal donation button? It wouldn't cost much at all per year. £40 quid for hosting and a tenner for the domain each year. Or is that more than what would be spent on here or marionsboard? I did look at hosted options and that Software along with invasion community, it ends up costing more to host your own. The amount of traffic and posts that this place generates means we would hit bandwidth charges and storage costs. Also the spec of the virtual servers required bumps up the cost considerably too. I work for a large service provider who have their own physical and cloud platforms and ability to provide on the others too but even at staff rates it would still cost more.
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Post by Showergel on Jun 2, 2020 11:16:11 GMT
Just curious but why doesn't somebody just set up a Wordpress site with MyBB forum which can be customised, with a PayPal donation button? It wouldn't cost much at all per year. £40 quid for hosting and a tenner for the domain each year. Or is that more than what would be spent on here or marionsboard? I did look at hosted options and that Software along with invasion community, it ends up costing more to host your own. The amount of traffic and posts that this place generates means we would hit bandwidth charges and storage costs. Also the spec of the virtual servers required bumps up the cost considerably too. I work for a large service provider who have their own physical and cloud platforms and ability to provide on the others too but even at staff rates it would still cost more. I didn't think about bandwidth and storage costs but that's because I use a UK company (who are under the umbrella of a US giant) that offers unlimited bandwidth and storage. What "unlimited" really means I'm not sure, I have never pushed it to the limits. Wouldn't say they are the best of the best hosting but good enough and £5.99 per month (+ VAT) or for more memory (slightly better loading speeds bc of scripts slowing it down), £9.99. You can have 5-10 sites (depending on price). Yes you would be using another companies cloud server not your own, but it doesn't make much difference for 1 website It doesn't just have to be a forum, it can RSS Stockport County news. It could provide an internet radio in the future (yes at a small cost, but ads would cover) for games, similar to what other non-league teams have. Etc. Etc. It could cover things, events in Stockport etc. Obviously that's me getting ahead of myself and the main focus is the forum. Again, I don't know if those prices are more than the running costs of this place or marionsboard. I'm just throwing ideas out there but whether they are suitable or not, only those who know the figures and researched into it etc. would know, not me. I'm just the ideas man
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Post by suedehead on Jun 2, 2020 11:30:16 GMT
I did look at hosted options and that Software along with invasion community, it ends up costing more to host your own. The amount of traffic and posts that this place generates means we would hit bandwidth charges and storage costs. Also the spec of the virtual servers required bumps up the cost considerably too. I work for a large service provider who have their own physical and cloud platforms and ability to provide on the others too but even at staff rates it would still cost more. I didn't think about bandwidth and storage costs but that's because I use a UK company (who are under the umbrella of a US giant) that offers unlimited bandwidth and storage. What "unlimited" really means I'm not sure, I have never pushed it to the limits. Wouldn't say they are the best of the best hosting but good enough and £5.99 per month (+ VAT) or for more memory (slightly better loading speeds bc of scripts slowing it down), £9.99. You can have 5-10 sites (depending on price). Yes you would be using another companies cloud server not your own, but it doesn't make much difference for 1 website It doesn't just have to be a forum, it can RSS Stockport County news. It could provide an internet radio in the future (yes at a small cost, but ads would cover) for games, similar to what other non-league teams have. Etc. Etc. It could cover things, events in Stockport etc. Obviously that's me getting ahead of myself and the main focus is the forum. Again, I don't know if those prices are more than the running costs of this place or marionsboard. I'm just throwing ideas out there but whether they are suitable or not, only those who know the figures and researched into it etc. would know, not me. I'm just the ideas man All interesting stuff, but this is only ever intended to be a forum. Newsfeeds, radio, non-County Stockport local news etc. that's for elsewhere. We've got no intention of going down that route. We could have ads on here and it'd be zero cost. Plenty of people have been very generous and paid for a good number of ad-free views on here but once they've run down we could run for a while with ads and see if they have a considerable negative impact, or if it's something people are happy to live with. We've done a lot of looking at other set ups and think this proboards one ticks the most boxes for us.
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Post by The Real Exile on Jun 2, 2020 12:09:57 GMT
I did look at hosted options and that Software along with invasion community, it ends up costing more to host your own. The amount of traffic and posts that this place generates means we would hit bandwidth charges and storage costs. Also the spec of the virtual servers required bumps up the cost considerably too. I work for a large service provider who have their own physical and cloud platforms and ability to provide on the others too but even at staff rates it would still cost more. I didn't think about bandwidth and storage costs but that's because I use a UK company (who are under the umbrella of a US giant) that offers unlimited bandwidth and storage. What "unlimited" really means I'm not sure, I have never pushed it to the limits. Wouldn't say they are the best of the best hosting but good enough and £5.99 per month (+ VAT) or for more memory (slightly better loading speeds bc of scripts slowing it down), £9.99. You can have 5-10 sites (depending on price). Yes you would be using another companies cloud server not your own, but it doesn't make much difference for 1 website It doesn't just have to be a forum, it can RSS Stockport County news. It could provide an internet radio in the future (yes at a small cost, but ads would cover) for games, similar to what other non-league teams have. Etc. Etc. It could cover things, events in Stockport etc. Obviously that's me getting ahead of myself and the main focus is the forum. Again, I don't know if those prices are more than the running costs of this place or marionsboard. I'm just throwing ideas out there but whether they are suitable or not, only those who know the figures and researched into it etc. would know, not me. I'm just the ideas man Ideas are much appreciated, the costs of those servers start to ramp up when you add the required vCPU's and Memory etc etc, honestly if was viable I'd have spun a server plus a backup up already.
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