Casper Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Hey folks, sorry about that. The site was down due to a dying harddrive. We're back up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman88210 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Damn hard drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagr Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 We should get Daft Punk Drives. They are harder, better, faster and stronger too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolWhip Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Hmmm no redundancy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 how the hell am I suppose to get my morning fap with out any of red barrons nws pics?!?!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beegreenstrings Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 I wondered? I just thought casper was slacking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r6allstar Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 His hard-drive went limp.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Hmmm no redundancy?Is that a serious question? If so, uhm, this is a free website with no Google ads or anything like that, of which I lose money on. This isn't an enterprise level operation here. LOL. We do have a RAID setup, so no data was lost. Just had to swap the disk and let the raid rebuild.Now if 500 people want to donate like $10/yr, we could afford a badass setup. I'd love to have 4U's in a datacenter. I'd do a master/slave httpd server and master/slave MySQL server setup with automatic ipfailover. I'd host the slaves at a remote datacenter, so even if one datacenter has network issues, everything would just failover to the slaves at the 2nd DC. That'd be around $3600 for just the rackspace, power, bandwidth, etc. Unfortunately, it's more like 10-20 people per year donating. Add that to our sponsorship dollars, and we come close to breaking even with bills around a grand every year. I could add Google adwords and what not to the site, but I personally don't visit sites who do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|SnOmAn| Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 What's a hard drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFM Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 I was forced to look at boobies on other sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphy Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Is that a serious question? If so, uhm, this is a free website with no Google ads or anything like that, of which I lose money on. This isn't an enterprise level operation here. LOL. We do have a RAID setup, so no data was lost. Just had to swap the disk and let the raid rebuild.Now if 500 people want to donate like $10/yr, we could afford a badass setup. I'd love to have 4U's in a datacenter. I'd do a master/slave httpd server and master/slave MySQL server setup with automatic ipfailover. I'd host the slaves at a remote datacenter, so even if one datacenter has network issues, everything would just failover to the slaves at the 2nd DC. That'd be around $3600 for just the rackspace, power, bandwidth, etc. Unfortunately, it's more like 10-20 people per year donating. Add that to our sponsorship dollars, and we come close to breaking even with bills around a grand every year. I could add Google adwords and what not to the site, but I personally don't visit sites who do that.It is all good, it is back, and all the data is still here. You rock for keeping it going, I know what a thankless job admin is. So this is my big ass thank you for all the hard work you put in to keeping out little clubhouse on the net up and going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbot Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 wow, i thought we had more "supporters" than that. i just figured the rest of the donators didn't notice the special forum. and here I thought our little group were just the cool kids in the short bus.anyways, thanks for getting it back up and running! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood3586 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 ...yeah thanks Ben. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 wow, i thought we had more "supporters" than that. i just figured the rest of the donators didn't notice the special forum. and here I thought our little group were just the cool kids in the short bus.anyways, thanks for getting it back up and running!17 "Supporters" right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Maybe add a few bucks to the cost of the T-shirt to cover the web page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 We should get Daft Punk Drives. They are harder, better, faster and stronger too!Is that a serious question? If so, uhm, this is a free website with no Google ads or anything like that, of which I lose money on.... I could add Google adwords and what not to the site, but I personally don't visit sites who do that.Seriously I don't know why you don't. I think you could make some nice change with Google ads. I don't think it would be bad if there were a few ads, not like the site was plastered with them or something. I myself got a $100 check from google for my ads on one of my forums and my one youtube video that has ads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Seriously I don't know why you don't. I think you could make some nice change with Google ads. I don't think it would be bad if there were a few ads' date=' not like the site was plastered with them or something. I myself got a $100 check from google for my ads on one of my forums and my one youtube video that has ads.[/quote']Because I'm not all about the money. That was never the intention of this site. I don't mind having ads, but I'm not a fan of Google Ads. I personally think that's one of the big pluses to this site. The only ads on here are local(ish) companies who take care of OR members. Most of them are members on here as well, and interact with everyone on here. You're not going to get that from a Google Ad. If I only cared about the money, this site would be rolling in some bank with Google Adwords, affiliate links, etc. But I personally stop visiting sites when they do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSB67 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 That was completely unacceptable. I demand a credit for the outage on my next bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Because I'm not all about the money. That was never the intention of this site. And I know that. That's cool. I however, like money . And you're right about "local" ads. Google ads would be "targeted" but not local.I'd throw another donation your way sometime but, umm, yeah, well, you probably heard the "paypal" story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbarron77 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 I was worried that I'd have to repost all those pics....it takes a long time to post that much Pr0n one handed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beegreenstrings Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 I was forced to look at boobies on other sites. yeah his arm is oh so twisted and mangaled! He will never ride again that bastard that forced him to look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbarron77 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 how the hell am I suppose to get my morning fap with out any of red barrons nws pics?!?!?I'm going to keep this one for a while.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 That was completely unacceptable. I demand a credit for the outage on my next bill. Oh that is just asking for it. Send him a bill... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Because I'm not all about the money. That was never the intention of this site. I don't mind having ads, but I'm not a fan of Google Ads. I personally think that's one of the big pluses to this site. The only ads on here are local(ish) companies who take care of OR members. Most of them are members on here as well, and interact with everyone on here. You're not going to get that from a Google Ad. If I only cared about the money, this site would be rolling in some bank with Google Adwords, affiliate links, etc. But I personally stop visiting sites when they do that.A few sites that I visit occasionally use ads, with an option to remove them by becoming a supporter. This is the only site that I have paid up to support though. Personally, I think the $10 to become a supporter is very worth it to me for the amount of posting and reading I do on here. I think that everyone that posts regularly on here should consider it. I'd so it even without the cool "supporter" logo below my name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 A few sites that I visit occasionally use ads, with an option to remove them by becoming a supporter. This is the only site that I have paid up to support though. Personally, I think the $10 to become a supporter is very worth it to me for the amount of posting and reading I do on here. I think that everyone that posts regularly on here should consider it. I'd so it even without the cool "supporter" logo below my name! Exactly. On those sites you have to pay to remove the ads. Here, you don't. You just pay if you feel like it. And you do. That means something. Not sure what though. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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