IS NOT GOOD!

[Cain]

There are 3907 members. If five percent donated ten dollars a year, that'd be more than enough for maintenance costs and upgrades, yeah? Maybe you should host a bake sale. Or start up that branding thing I believe Cramulus was talking about some months ago - start up a store for PD t-shirts and people can donate art to raffle off . . .

And then after that we can sit around a campfire and sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children". Nevermind. I think I was borrowing the plot of a Whoopie Goldberg movie or something.

There are about 60 active members, on a weekly basis.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

i still prefer the "set up a store and sell shit we come up with" idea to the "make people start paying a fee for what they're already used to getting for free" idea (or any variant thereof).

[Cain]

So do I.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

For the children, of course.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

For the children, of course.

For FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOM!!!1!!!2

[Faust]

i still prefer the "set up a store and sell shit we come up with" idea to the "make people start paying a fee for what they're already used to getting for free" idea (or any variant thereof).

The donation system works better then any idea of a fee anyway. Because of this thread (I think) someone just donated.

[LMNO]

Yeah, "alms collection" has worked pretty well so far.  I'm just trying to figure out how much more we'd need to donate.

[Faust]

Yeah, "alms collection" has worked pretty well so far.  I'm just trying to figure out how much more we'd need to donate.

Well currently we are set to: 762 MB for $38.10/month. It works off a slider, for instance 1003MB costs $50.15/month.

762 doesn't seem to be too bad, the site slows up on searches or large queries but otherwise we don't seem to be getting as many people left hanging for long periods of time;
Its not entirely necessary to up Res now, in fact I'd prefer to find a way to make things more efficient so we don't need it set as high as it is.
There are a number of things that can be tried, I looked at some that trip posted the other day, one's now in place but there are other things that can utilised as well.

This is all pretty boring stuff, if people want I can split it out of Enrico's thread.

[Faust]

I'm going to try gradually reducing the res we have assigned to see if there is much/any noticeable difference for a little lower.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fucking hell, I think pretty much all of us could donate a dollar, and that's got to help.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Or, pass the "glory" of hosting on to someone who makes a lot of money!

[Faust]

Fucking hell, I think pretty much all of us could donate a dollar, and that's got to help.

No no, but thank you, I have enough for the next couple of months. I'm doing some speed tests right now and finding some odd stuff.

[Faust]

Or, pass the "glory" of hosting on to someone who makes a lot of money!

While it would be a lot less hassle for me and large amounts of my time back, I'd miss hosting this place I enjoy working on it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OK, so we've established that you enjoy hosting it and that enough people have donated to pay for it (I hope)... what now? There have been times when I could have happily paid for whatever you needed, and this is definitely not one of those times.

[LMNO]

Suggestions:

1) Work on streamlining the data flow.
    - This appears to be happening as we speak.

2) Continue bumping the "Alms Collection" thread wheen needed.
    - This also appears to be continuing.


I'm comfortable with continuing on this same course.  If the streamlining doesn't work as well as hoped, we can then discuss an expansion.