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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47  Posts: 939/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 940/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 941/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Acmlm's board could live on a $5 hosting account. The Server they keep referring to is for their stupid RO Server. Do not allow them to exploit you fine forum users to support their silly game habits. Let them ask the RO Players for money. Stating that the Forum needs money is an outright lie. There are dozens of hosting providers besides myself who sell webhosting for less than $10 a month. $200 a month is becuase of their silly game server.... |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 942/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Laff, Lunarpages is not "unstable" and dozens of you use them. They cost $8 a month. But the fact remains saying the "Board" is in trouble and needs 200 a month is ludicrous at best. The Server that a few of the admins want to play with costs 200 a month. The BOARD needs a $5 hosting account from one of dozens of providers out there. --- bass states "Bandwidth isn't free and we are using more than ever before" we meaning him and his buddies. This forum has the SAME activitiy as it did when I hosted it and it NEVER used more than about 15 Gigs in any given month. I can think of 3 hosting companies off the top of my head that give HUNDREDS of gigs per month for about 40 -> 60 a month. Regardless this forum uses no more bandwidth than it did when I hosted it, which is at best 15 gigs a month. (edited by ErkDog on 09-09-05 01:54 PM) |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 943/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| I am not advertising, I am discussing furthermore, I USED TO HOST this board I know EXACTLY how much resources it uses. Fiftypounds was not the "horrible" host the "horrible" host was overclocked My server performed marvellously They stopped using me as a host because I added a get firefox banner to the bottom of the page amongst other things. I don't really care, whatever, but I just wanted to point out that this forum would be fine on a $10 hosting account, it's resource use is nowhere on the order of 200 a month. a 40 dedicated server would service this forum... but a $10 shared hosting account would... This forum could live at lunarpages easily and like I said it's $8 a month there.... so... don't... be ... fooled..... |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 944/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Furthermore, if bass wants to claim the forum is using some crazy amount of bandwidth (which it is not) have him provide publically the link for webstats. As I mentioned previously, in all the time Acmlm's forum was on my server it NEVER used more than 15 Gigs in any particular month. The total of ALL my personal sites and ALL my customer's sites was at MOST 78 Gigs as outlined Here http://webstats.fiftypounds.com/webalizer/AllDomains/ Several of those months INCLUDE when I was still hosting ACMLM's forum. Furthermore, ever since Acmlm left my site some little shit bricks have been pointlessly downloading large files from my server in an attempt to drive me over my bandwidth limit. Good luck, becuase unlike Bass would like you to believe, bandwidth is not expensive and I have more of it than you could ever plan to suck up with your little distributed HTTP Gets. Now, As you can clearly see 78 Gigs.... Including distributed DOS Attacks against my server. Either the adminstration makes horrible purchasing decisions, or they are being unclear about WHAT exactly they need money for. It is obviously the latter of the two. And I am merely pointing this out. This FORUM does not need 200 a month to stay alive. The server the admins want to play with needs 200 a month to stay alive, and they are exploiting your loyalty and violating the trust you place in them as admins by claiming the FORUM needs it. I have only seen two dedicated servers in my LIFE that have come with less than 100 Gigs of bandwidth. And CERTAINLY not a server that costs 200 a month. So if bandwidth is a concern for the adminstration of this forum, it's becuase they are using it for something else BESIDES this forum, as I have clearly proven time and time again. blackhole stop arguing irrelevant points, why Acmlm is no longer hosted on my server is completely immaterial to the discussion at hand, which is that the adminstration of this forum claims that they need money for bandwidth to run this forum, which is --not true-- so I'm not even going to dignify your frivilous comments regarding me placing a FIREFOX advertisement when the entire administration of this forum as well as most of it's members support and advocate it's use. And like I said, amongst other things, but all of which are immaterial to this discussion. |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 945/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| bit-blade it is nothing that complicated. I'm sure the server this board is on costs 200 a month. All I'm pointing out is that the forum in and of itself does not even come close to taxing that server. If it does then the administration needs to evaluate whom they choose as a vendor. I have a dual xeon 2.8 ghz with 2 gigs of ddr and ridicubandwidth for 250 Also I used to host this forum. And I maintain dozens of websites. And all of them put together plus acmlm's board never used more than 80 gigs of bandwidth and my hardware was barely tickled. In addition I ran 2 game servers and an ircd process on the same server. As well as hundreds of email accounts. Now I'm not close to using all of my hardware resources or bandwidth with ALL OF THAT considered. And the administration of this forum would have you believe that this forum alone needs 200 a month to stay alive? Something is wrong with that picture no matter what angle or light you look at it in. The admins want you to subsidise their toy. If they don't have the money to pay for the server they want to play with, that's their problem, not yours. This forim would be fine on lunarpages or any one of other dozens of wenhosts for 10 or less a month. |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 946/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Blackhole, no they wouldn't, lol And I offered to sell emuz ro hosting for 35 a month at one time. And still would. I do not play ro, nor would I ever, so I could assure you I would not touch that whatsoever... Anyway they probably wouldn't do that either just out of spite and contempt toward me. But they could, so they'd pay 35 for ro and 10 for hosting the board somewhere else. That's only 45 a month, but they aren't asking tro ppl for money for the tro server That's the point blackhole Bass is posting announcements indicating the FORUM needs 200 a month which is a mistruth at best if not an outright lie... I know for a friggin fact it would require nothing more than a 10 dollar hosting account somewhere. But certainly nothing on the order of 200 a month. |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 947/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| the DNS Cache timeout for a week is actually pretty low, most places use much higher than 1 week. All my other zones are one MONTH, but hey, maybe if you raised the TTL you woudln't use so much bandwidth, we all know DNS traffic is negligible though, but anyway.... I know ALOT of you use Lunarpages, are you saying Lunarpages sucks? I used them for a while, they performed better than I had expected to. and yeah, knuck it is ... people don't have to make sense or have an actual point when they argue about something, all they have to do is pick some random nonsense that has nothing to do with anything other than the person they are talking to and say it, lol. I'm not even going to bother having the conversation about RSS feeds again because it HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AND IS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IRRELEVANT. I didn't fuck with any code, matter of fact, people continually asked me to do things that I refused to do because Acmlm did not tell me I, or they, could do them. Finally Jesper harassed me to the point that we started developing anyway. None of the code I ever wrote went into Acmlmboard that Jesper didn't know about or look at. The ONLY exception to this was the goddamn Firefox banner I added, again all of which is moot and it's not even "code" it was 40 characters of HTML. |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 948/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Well I showed you what my server uses, and there's no way that Acmlm's board by itself uses more resources than my ENTIRE customer base and myself. And I reitterate the fact that I used to host acmlm's board, so I know what it uses which can't possibly be much more than 15 gigs .... Especially if they bothered to turn gzip compression on that certainly would help alot. But even with gzip off some basic math reveals the following... the HTML portion of a 20 page thread is approximately 60K compressed it's 7K so 60K let's say. Now EVERY page load isn't a 20 page thread view, and so the average would be far far less than 60k per hit.... moving right along.... let's work with the number 100 Gigs, which for a dedicated server is NOTHING and a server that costs 200 dollars should come with about 1500 gigs at least anyway.... 100 gigs.... 104857600 KiloBYTES divided by 60 1747626.6666666666666666666666667 1.8 MILLION 20 page thread views, and we already established that the average woudl be far LESS than 60K per thread view, but for the sake of argument.... 1.8 MILLION per month..... would be 100 Gigs of bandwdith.... now this number would be 12 GIGS per month if they turned gzip on.. but let's stay on track with this analogy... 1.8 MILLION 20 page thread views.... since it was recreated this forum has 18 MILLION Views counting ALL Pages, Again most of which are NOT 20 page thread views.... The forum was recreated 03-14-04 04:26 PM (544 days ago) There.... 3-14-04 so roughly 18 months ago..... now.... you take 18 Million divided by 18 and you come up with 1 Million. That's LESS than 1.8 Million and actually only 60 GIGS per month But wait .... that would only be SIX Gigs if they simply turned gzip compression on.... and gzip compression adds minor CPU overhead... how do I know this? Because I've run webservers for about 6 years now, always w/ gzip turned on. This benefits the client and the end user. If you are on dialup and you hit a 20 page thread view you have to wait like 15 seconds tfor it to load, versus TWO if gzip is on. I can only question the sanity of an individual who does not leave GZip enabled. But to reitterate the theoretical maximum bandwidth this forum should use is 60 Gigs per month, which could actually be reduced to SIX. Also I'm aware I did not include imagery in that analogy but it's still close enough. (edited by ErkDog on 09-09-05 06:17 PM) |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 949/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| well I got my house the link to the pics is already in this thread, I haven't had a chacne to completely finish unpacking and whatnot but it was definteily a can of worms buying this place I have no free time and am starting a 2nd job to help pay the mortgage, lol and I have 2 roomates at the moment they give me 300 a piece plus split utilities so that helps ALOT |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 950/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| snopes is your friend http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/walken.asp |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 951/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| yeah you'd think I'd see the 500 some odd days and that woudl clue me into the fact that it was more a year.... something else I"d like to reference from Bass's announcement... "Bandwidth isn't free and we're using more then ever before." Why? Acmlm's board had far more posts per day when I hosted it than it does now I see 425 over the last 24 hrs.... It was usually above 600 when I hosted it. Regardless the activity since the board was re-created has remained pretty static and constant, so why are you using "more than ever before" The amount of resources this forum consumes could never logically be more than $10 a month. Any person who charged more than $10 to host this forum is robbing you. Let's go out on a limb and say as much as $25 dollars a month... since when is 25 dollars "lots and lots of money" Why does this forum need "lots and lots of money" to stay alive? Ohh wait it doesn't.... it doesn't.... I loose $175 a month on my business, I wouldn't call that lots and lots of money much less 25.... Lunarpages sells hosting for 7.95 a month which provies 3000 Megs of storage and 40 Gigs of Bandwidth. I have conclusively proven (and know since I --USED TO HOST IT--) that Acmlm's forum does not and never will use more than 40 Gigs of bandwidth in any given month, so really all this forum NEEDS to stay alive is $8 dollars. Someone please tell me how that is "lots and lots of money" ? |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 952/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| people who "mysteriously loose speed" are people who do stuff like bit torrent and bell finds them and they just cap it.... they do that because they know 99% of the people won't call and be like omg my bittorrents are going slow.... |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 953/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| Colleen, those are not legitimate stats all they do is indicate posts and views and such there is no legitimate information there regarding actual bandwidth usage, but it doesn't matter I already know and have shared how much this forum uses. And there is no reason to raise "lots and lots of money" Lunarpages sells webhosting for EIGHT GODDAMN DOLLARS A MONTH |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 954/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| ohh sorry Colleen my bad, but if you look up and down those daily stats, the posts per day are pretty much constant on average right? Actually, I do notice that the views per day have seem to increase somewhat on average, but on the average they only went up by about 25% which is still not more than an $8 webhosting account from LunarPages won't support. (edited by ErkDog on 09-09-05 10:51 PM) |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 955/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| I'm almost done unpacking actually I'll knock it out this weekend because I have to, I have a girl that's goign to sleep in my living room for a few weeks while she finds a place of her own, lol. So hopefully sometime Sunday I'll be able to take some pictures with everything pimped out to share with you guys I ran 6 Cat 6 to each bedroom and Coax and Phone everywhere I have a wall rack with a rack mount UPS and some other goodies too  (edited by ErkDog on 09-09-05 10:49 PM) (edited by ErkDog on 09-09-05 10:49 PM) |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 956/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 957/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| BT --DOES-- use up bandwidth like crazy I have saturated my download and upload for 3 weeks solid with them before. And I know lots of people who have gotten C&D Letters and been capped Especially on OptiOnline. You don't hang out with anybody who actually does any of this stuff on a regular basis I was an uploader at Elite Torrents... You know that big site that the ICE and FBI busted not too long ago? I had uploaded 5 TB  But I wasn't a "first supplier" so they didn't really come after me I guessbut yeah lots of people get capped and letters |
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ErkDog Fuzz Ball Level: 47 Posts: 958/982 EXP: 752190 For next: 14013 Since: 03-15-04 From: Richmond, VA Since last post: 40 days Last activity: 19 days |
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| well it's brand new construction so anything breaks for the 1st year I can actually MAKE them fix it. Also there is a 10yr structural warranty both required and enforced by VA State law I <3 America but yeah I have spent lots of money on things like appliances, this and that.... I owe Lowes 1300 but I have 11 months to pay it interest free... stupidasses |
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