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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vuron" data-source="post: 167136" data-attributes="member: 14">Without clear numbers as to bandwidth needs I think that it's going to be hard to beat CI Host on price, they are pretty much bottom of the barrel IMHO <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So assuming that it's unlikely that someone with a private T3 would allow us to colocate for free I think I make sense to view it from the following perspective, ENWorld must either decrease costs or increase revenues.I've noticed from other big messageboards experiences that voluntary donations and/or advanced features do not really bring in much dinero. As a result I think that any usage fees should be levied across the board if they are levied at all. Normally when you create a user fee this also decreases the number of gimpy users simultaneously reducing bandwidth costs and increasing revenues.A corrolary to this would be keeping one or two forums open to the public and making the rest for paying customers only. This is also a valid strategy but as we don't host alot of pron here I don't know if it will reduce usage too much <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Honestly I think increased add revenue is a pipe dream unless there is really more money lining publishers pockets than I think <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> Anyway unless WW or WotC want to cough up some change in return for not having to waste time running thier own message boards (for WotC I do think this might be a good idea) I don't see them sending moruss money out of the bottom of the hearts.I guess if I were run ning the show I'd seriously look at decreasing costs because bandwidth ain't cheap my friends.</blockquote>

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