Conrad Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Is there some sort of membership to pay for this sites up keep? If so, how come you aren't restricted to a Newbie section like on Celica Club if you're not a member? Also, who pays for the bandwidth and most importantly how much is the sites cost per annum? - if you don't mind me asking. Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/announcement.php?f=2&announcementid=9 You just can't see the members only sections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/announcement.php?f=2&announcementid=9 You just can't see the members only sections Cheers mate, I've only got one more post left then! Can any of the moderators let me know the cost of the up keep of the site and how much the use of images on the site increases this? No probs if you don't want to disclose this, it's just I use another forum identical to this but you can't post images. The reason being that the amount of bandwidth being used up by pics seriously slows the site down and it would cost too much for the extra bandwidth. I wouldn't mind but although it's free forum, it belongs to the biggest selling evening newspaper in the country! Cost really shouldn't be an issue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 You've got a few more posts yet, at 25 you are gently reminded to join, at 40 you are stopped from posting. The cost would be irrelavant as one of the moderators here works for the company that hosts this site, so we get.... lets just say favourable rates, which are uncomparable to other hosts offering the same benefits. I can help with the images question. We upgraded the forum approximately three months ago. In that time we have had 383,293 attachement downloads, with the average size 90.3 KB. That works out at roughly 11Gb bandwidth extra a month because of images. For anyone interested I've attached the statistics we have on attachements in the database. (Which will be out of date as soon as I post this thead) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 that is interesting stats, whats the size limit of any attachment on this bbs lee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 When we upgraded (and moved hosts) I increased the allowable attachement limit to 500,000 bytes. I also added a few more allowable extensions, so we now allow bmp, doc, gif, jpe, jpeg, jpg, pdf, png, psd, swf, txt and zip. Hopefully the use of 500k for an attachment wont be needed very often, and to be honest I think we should bin off bmps because they are so big and useless - but until the server starts to run out of space I'll leave it be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I've just realised that the attachement count will not include pictures in the members garage, so in fact our monthly image bandwidth could be double that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 ahh cheers for info on extensions, thats good to know. still thought we were limited to jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 No-one tell Dude his attachments take up the most space or he'll be bragging forevermore -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I think we should bin off bmps because they are so big and useless Yeah I agree. There's no need to post a bitmap file these days. (Was there ever?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Man Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 there are external site offer free photo hosting, I usually do link instead of attaching pic. Does that help reducing bandwith>? China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 Can we bin off bmp now? Seems a bit pointless to waste. Allowing .xls would be good, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jap Scene UK Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Like iwse China Man..i use photobucket...free and a peice of pi$$ to use.... http://www.photobucket.com if ya finding the server is getting full may be worth a few more people starting to use photobucket etc etc.. Cheers Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Does that help reducing bandwith>?Yes it does, but we really don't have a bandwidth issue so there's no need. I'd rather pictures were attached to threads as then people can see the thumbnails and chose to look at pictures rather than opening a thread that starts displaying full sized in-line pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Can we bin off bmp now? Seems a bit pointless to waste. Allowing .xls would be good, too. Good idea, bitmaps just waste space that a JPEG image can do so much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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