Problems with disk speeds

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Cynic wrote on 2011-06-29 20:48

Ads and a donation button sounds good.
David wrote on 2011-06-29 21:30

To everyone suggesting advertisements: most ad networks (the decent paying ones, at least) will not accept sites with adult content, even if it's not accessible to the public (Rua's House).

Quote from Osayidan;494496:
The specs don't matter i nterms of RAM or CPU, we've got plenty to spare on that. The problem is that the hosting's storage can't keep up with the IO requirements, although for the past half day it seems like they resolved it. When I get home I'll be enabling search to see if everything still runs smooth.

Regardless, the disk speed shouldn't be too much of an issue. If you webhost is unable to sort things out, it may be time to look for a new host - in which case, my offer still stands.

Though if the site grows much more, it may be wise to just move it to a dedicated server.
Osayidan wrote on 2011-06-29 22:19

I'll see what I can come up with for ads, got my google adsense account. They don't want adult material, which basically means pornography, our mature section is just discussions, it's no worse than having them on a health discussion forum. Already got that cleared with them anyways for other websites.
TA wrote on 2011-06-29 22:56

I think that some non-evasive ads and allowing donations would be a good idea.

Donators would get special features and we should have some sort of progress bar showing how much Nation needs to stay afloat each month. 0-100% with the price required above it. Animebytes has a nice one.

I think we could have like 3 different levels of donations. $5, $10, $15. We could make them gain gold faster and get colored names and some extra features normal users don't get, and reset it every month.

It'd be like subscriptions. Subscriptions to special features. You could even have it so people could donate for like 3-6-12 months at a time if they wanted, in one of the three plans. Though with that, we have to worry about admins lining their pockets and stealing donation money. If we don't want to worry about that, we can only allow 1 month at a time, but with a different system for it and only allow the max server cost each month to be donated. So, the people that donate first would be the only ones to get the special features.

I think with a system like that, we could make donating give some gold and make the shop more useful with some more interesting pets and some other things people might actually want. People could earn them on their own, but donating would be a lot faster. You know, kinda make it a little like an MMO. People like watching numbers go up and grinding out for something cool, and some people... they like to be able to just pay to not have to grind so much. Works out for everyone, in the end.

We aren't taking features away from normal members though. They could post just like they can now. There'd just be.... extra stuff.

I'd say get at least one annoying flashy ad up top that pays out pretty good, but don't allow any pop outs or audio.

I mean, hey... When it comes down to just you not wanting to do it, or the site going offline... You really oughta break down and do it. It's a community here, and you don't have to carry it on your back. I'm sure a lot of people here wouldn't mind pitching in, if it meant the site staying up or going under.

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