Draft web page for "Community Supporter member accounts"

Darkness · May 6, 2002

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xmanii · May 6, 2002

Darkness said:
Community Supporters List

Thanks!

Psionicist · May 6, 2002

Jesus Morrus, $625 already!

For the love of god, DO NOT waste this money on CIHost you will loose TONS of money, instead I have the following idea.

Buy a new computer to use as server and connect it to some friendly moderators (or other person you trust) high-speed (50mbit+) broadband cable. Suddenly you have a dedicated server much better than CIHosts AND a dedicated (partially) line, without high monthly costs (except for that little extra cash for the moderator's broadband)...

For best performance, buy the computer -IN PARTS- and not some crappy OEM machine. If you get 25-50 more contributers you CAN afford a small RAID array for security and speed, dual CPUs and more RAM you can ever shake a stick at!

Think about the idea as a whole, not the details. You like it don't you?

Jeremy · May 6, 2002

/me helps out.

Horacio · May 7, 2002

Psionicist said:
Jesus Morrus, $625 already!

For the love of god, DO NOT waste this money on CIHost you will loose TONS of money, instead I have the following idea.

It's a good idea, Psionicist, a really good one. But, IMO, it has a flaw: Morrus doesn't want to become a computer guru.

I like computers (I'm telecom engineer, so I need to like them!), and if I were Morrus, I will follow your idea without hesitation. But I'm not Morrus. Not everybody love computers, not everybody can/want/wish to spend hours trying to get that clumsy piece of software working in that complex piece of hardware.

So, unless Morrus or the friendly moderator with broadband want to spend lots of time instead of money, I wouldn't say them follow your idea.

Disclaimer: it was only my humble opinion. YMMV, of course.