Morrus A Possible Answer For You...

[lmpjr007]

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[Wraith Form]

I'd be willing to pay for an account or subscription with EN World.

Especially if you could set up various levels of subscription, just like a magazine, and the more months you sign on for the "less" it costs.

I'd really be cool with that. Whaddaya think?

 

[Darrin Drader]

There are usually some pretty tight limits on the bandwidth you can use at these places. If not, it might be a good option.

 

[Mordane76]

I'm with Wraith Form on this one....


Think about it -- we have a membership of over 11,000 people, right?
Out of that 11,000, do you think there are 400 who wouldn't mind paying $12 a year ($1 a month) to ENWorld? That would cover the fees for service hosting right there. I mean, how many community supporters are there on ENWorld -- and their accounts cost $20 a year, right?


I'm sure there's an intangible difficulty I'm missing here, but I don't know what it is; someone please point it out to me.

 

[Wombat]

Given how much I use this place, a dollar a month is a major bargain

$20 is quite doable

I figure this is something like PBS or NPR. There are those who can afford to support and those who cannot, but those who can should find an amount that is comfortable, without being budget breaking.

Whaddya think? Would a self-guided sliding scale be workable?

 

[MW Turnage]

I think folks are losing site of the bandwidth this place must pull down. $400/month = lots of bandwidth unless Morrus just has the worst provider rates in the world. Somehow I doubt that...

"Unlimited/Unmetered" hosting facilities can offer deals like that because (a) if a customer goes past a certain amount of bandwidth, they cut the available pipe down to a miniscule amount (1k/sec seems to be average) or (b) the contract lets them drop the customer like the proverbial hot potato. Bandwidth costs serious money to even most hosting facilities, more than the average cable/DSL subscriber would ever imagine. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and a high-bandwidth site will cost. A lot.

This said, Morrus seems to be near the point where it might be cheaper to just pay for a dedicated line and run the server for himself. Given the size of the ENWorld community, I'd be surprised if there haven't already been offers. Odds are those would be in the US, though, and that may be problematic with UK telecom rates and fees.

 

[rpgHQ]

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I hope you meant to link to the dedicated machines and not those virtual or shared machine plans.

Something like EN World would require a dedicated machine.

Besides which nobody gets unlimited/unmetered bandwidth in a shared server like that, there is always some cap and fine print somewhere giving the cap number or saying that to keep the account you have to upgrade to another plan or charge some wild amount for bandwidth over their cap.

And the virtual servers are servers that host hundreds of webusers and their accounts/websites, whereas shared-dedicated means theres only a handful of accounts/websites on a single machine. The hosting company would require EN World to go dedicated within a single day of going live on their shared machines.