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In post 43, Kison wrote:Well if we do everything I said in 35 we could still have another crash like this, it'd just help minimize the pandemonium. Under our current hosting situation it's not really feasible to prevent(though we've done pretty well so far). Higher fault tolerance would be a lot more achievable if we were hosted somewhere like AWS since we can spin up and shut down machines as needed and more easily create redundancy. If one of your machines crashes you can just start it back up yourself, or kill it completely and set up a new one without having to wait on anyone. I just need to get around to pricing it out to see if it's something we can afford.
From what little I know, AWS would definitely be the way to go if we can afford it.
Which I don't think would be much of a problem if the fact that it's possible to donate towards server costs was a bit more obvious.
Not meaning it has to be an announcement or anything, but maybe a stickied post in the discussion forums.
i was part of a forum before that had banner ads at the bottom of the forum, and there was one day per year where we all clicked the banner ads mercilessly to drive up the payments the site would get ... or whenever we were bored we would click it and close the window that popped up
because clickthroughs drive way more money to the host site than mere impressions.
If I were trying to monetize the site, I don't think Ads would be the way I'd go. I'd probably add recurring "supporter" memberships that come with small benefits and a banner under a user's name. I think small recurring payments tend to be more helpful to the site than fairly large infrequent donations, and recognizing those who support the site is a nice way to thank people who give.
But to be clear that's not my call at all, and I don't really have insight into whether that's necessary.
This doesn't seem to me to be a case of us not paying enough, honestly.
If I'm remembering correctly, the Donations page used to be more visible due to mith posting financial statements periodically. He hasn't had the time to do that recently, so the idea that the site needs money to run has fallen by the wayside somewhat.
A relatively easy(?) fix would be to fix a "Donate" link in the header, next to "Search."
In post 63, zoraster wrote:If I were trying to monetize the site, I don't think Ads would be the way I'd go. I'd probably add recurring "supporter" memberships that come with small benefits and a banner under a user's name. I think small recurring payments tend to be more helpful to the site than fairly large infrequent donations, and recognizing those who support the site is a nice way to thank people who give.
But to be clear that's not my call at all, and I don't really have insight into whether that's necessary.
This doesn't seem to me to be a case of us not paying enough, honestly.
Pay to lynch. Votes to lynch are worth more based on donations.
In post 63, zoraster wrote:If I were trying to monetize the site, I don't think Ads would be the way I'd go. I'd probably add recurring "supporter" memberships that come with small benefits and a banner under a user's name. I think small recurring payments tend to be more helpful to the site than fairly large infrequent donations, and recognizing those who support the site is a nice way to thank people who give.
But to be clear that's not my call at all, and I don't really have insight into whether that's necessary.
This doesn't seem to me to be a case of us not paying enough, honestly.
In the past he's said that he didn't want to do those sorts of things. Of course, with server load and the bub and real world, the morals may have to take a back seat for a while. We'll see.
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Yeah, we've discussed it before. I don't know if we'll ever see it, but if we need to monetize (he has a wife and kids now after all), that'd be the way I'd recommend doing it. On the plus side, if we had some excess we could use it for small ad campaigns and the like, which I've experimented with but didn't want to spend a ton of money doing.
Zor can we split this off to a seperate thread? Since global announcements don't work properly with the "unread posts" feature; and this would probably give it (the issue at hand, not the unread posts thing) more visibility.