Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 00:35:42 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 02:53:42, Russell Reagan wrote: >On September 29, 2004 at 01:47:50, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>Thats why you assign 'head' moderators. Get other people who are in good >>standing that wouldn't mind doing this stuff to do it. Have 2 or so mods take >>care of the more frequent problems, have 2-3 more admins running the board and >>keeping the peace so to speak, as well as planning nominations (which isn't that >>often). The message board software can handle the lost password problems as well >>as the change of email address issue. >> >>Should allow you to kick back and take it easy while keeping an eye on >>everything. >> >>I really would like to see the search feature of the new board in action here. >>It would help out a LOT. There have been countless times I've wanted to look up >>old posts but couldn't. This would easily solve that. > > >I think your proposal misses the point. The primary reason we are in this >situation is a lack of funds, not a lack of willingness to put up with >headaches. > >I'm not even sure the situation would be improved overall. The transition is not >free. Someone has to install and maintain the new software. The bandwidth >requirements increase. Comparing message indexes of the two boards, the >bandwidth requirements increase 2x. Comparing messages of approximately equal >length of content, the bandwidth requirement increases 20x. If you get a regular cable modem to run the board the CCC will be fine. Yes, a standard cable modem is PLENTY for this simple text board. How much do those cost? Well, about $50 a month or so, and could probably go with $29 per month for DSL. This is unlimited bandwidth at whatever the connection is capped at. What other costs are there? Domain name and setup is somewhere around $50 (what it cost me to register and get it all working for newageoc.com). That lasts for something like 3 years. As far as electricity goes.. just setup an old Athlon box and underclock the thing, lower the voltage (I do this with my server, cpu is like 10 watts). Doesn't take a powerful system to push text around (or any simplistic static content such as this). It's not like you're crunching through thousands of SQL or CGI requests per second. Finally, you have a 1 time fee of I think $160 for the new bulletin board software. From your earnings so far it looks like you can keep the CCC up and running for a *LONG* time, and even buy a value system to run it on. Also Russell. What are you talking about, comparing messages? If you mean searching through previous posts.. that is all done on the server, not sending anything at all until the desired posts are found. Then the title of those results are displayed on the screen taking up less than 1kb of bandwidth. Then you can choose to click on whatever.. doesn't take much at all. Definitely not like running four 16 player Counter-Strike servers :P
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