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Over/Under on what time server crashes tomorrow

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Clarity, I dont think anybody was bitching about the slowness. I did question it, and offered any help that I could. I love this site. Also now that I know about the donation stuff, i will start pitching in on some new hardware. I may even be able to help out more on that front, I do alot of PC hardware stuff, and get some pretty awesome deals.
 
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Let me know when you are taking donations for the new stuff. You can count me in.


Clarity said:
I honestly didn't think anyone was bitching. Thump PM'd me earlier and even mentioned this thread, and I thought it was a funny/good idea for an over/under.

I just want everyone to understand exactly what's causing the slowdown, what we can do about it (block guests), and what we can't.

I've priced new machines, as have some others. A box with 4gb RAM is what we need at this moment, but it would not suffice, say, a year from now, if the site continues to grow at this same pace and we add the stats engine. A box like that might run around $4-5k. A box with 8gb RAM is what I'm told we would need to handle growth to about two or three times this size, and allow us to put the stats engine in place as well. This seems to run around $12-14k.

We will run a few drives, and save up for a new machine. So no one needs to worry about the site just going away. That's not going to happen. But we have to tighten our belt a bit to get by in the meantime, by limiting features (I've quietly shut some down, and I don't expect just a ton of people to notice what's missing, if any), and by taking steps like blocking unregistered folks.

So again, lol, I'm not feeling abused over complaints of site speed. No one should think that. If the site is slow, it's slow, I've done everything I can within my means to fix that. How we fix it from here is going to have to be a community effort I'm afraid, unless I win the lottery next week. But you have to play to win, so there goes that possibility. :wink:

Now I'm really off. Have to go. Sorry all, be back when and as I can.
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djtidebuck said:
Let me know when you are taking donations for the new stuff. You can count me in.
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As has already been stated Donny, there is a paypal button at the bottom of every page. If you don't want to do paypal, you can PM VRBryant and he can hook you up with a snail address to send a check.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
Yeah I will pitch in $50 myself.
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If you do make sure you PM Clarity or vrbryant with the details... I just copied and pasted my conformation email into a PM with a little note and sent it to Clarity

You could also send a PM to LongwoodBuck (Clarity's wife). Someone will respond to your PM with a thankyou.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
Beat that :)
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Uh, OK.

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