what is all this 500 x 100 i see??
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Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
storage VS bandwidth and processors...
Lets do the math...
To handel[sic] storage
350 GB Hard Drive = $80-$100
That will take care of storage for atleast[sic] 6 months of[sic] not a year.
So about $100-$200 per year
to handel[sic] searches...
More bandwidth means adding an additional T line at $3K per month
and you will need faster processors every 6 months to keep up.
So new MB and Porcessors[sic] or all new servers every 6 months on top of adding T lines.
So about $36,000 per year for bandwidth and $500-$1000 per year for equipment.
I'm not a business genious[sic], but if it was my site, I'm pretty sure I'd much rather provide storage!
Lets do the math...
To handel[sic] storage
350 GB Hard Drive = $80-$100
That will take care of storage for atleast[sic] 6 months of[sic] not a year.
So about $100-$200 per year
to handel[sic] searches...
More bandwidth means adding an additional T line at $3K per month
and you will need faster processors every 6 months to keep up.
So new MB and Porcessors[sic] or all new servers every 6 months on top of adding T lines.
So about $36,000 per year for bandwidth and $500-$1000 per year for equipment.
I'm not a business genious[sic], but if it was my site, I'm pretty sure I'd much rather provide storage!
For example, lets assume you keep adding storage - well, all that storage to handle all the repeat questions and answers . . . but the asking of all those questions over and over and the answers and insults thrown back, over and over, takes up an equal number of bandwidth if not more than would be required for the searches. Therefore, using your numbers, the only thing different is you added $500 - $1000 in storage. So Steve (oops, Internet Brands Worldwide Holdings LLC) would spend $500 - $1000 more your way.
Or not.
Let's just say it's a toss-up and continue insulting those who ask the same old question over and over.
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by kobiashi
It seems to me that, assuming your argument is valid, that you neglect to apply the same bandwidth equation to the storage side of the equation . . .
For example, lets assume you keep adding storage - well, all that storage to handle all the repeat questions and answers . . . but the asking of all those questions over and over and the answers and insults thrown back, over and over, takes up an equal number of bandwidth if not more than would be required for the searches. Therefore, using your numbers, the only thing different is you added $500 - $1000 in storage. So Steve (oops, Internet Brands Worldwide Holdings LLC) would spend $500 - $1000 more your way.
Or not.
Let's just say it's a toss-up and continue insulting those who ask the same old question over and over.
For example, lets assume you keep adding storage - well, all that storage to handle all the repeat questions and answers . . . but the asking of all those questions over and over and the answers and insults thrown back, over and over, takes up an equal number of bandwidth if not more than would be required for the searches. Therefore, using your numbers, the only thing different is you added $500 - $1000 in storage. So Steve (oops, Internet Brands Worldwide Holdings LLC) would spend $500 - $1000 more your way.
Or not.
Let's just say it's a toss-up and continue insulting those who ask the same old question over and over.
Looking at and posting put together is less than 1/8 of the resources used by a search.
Now the down side when you have multiple threads on the same subject, when you do a search it takes ALOT more bandwidth and system resources to perform the search and find all the threads with the key words. That jumbles up the searches.
I have a very slow internet connection, yet I could easily search attack any Vbulletin forum with a single computer and would be comparable to a well oganised and orchestrated multi user ping attack. You cant get enough people to open enough threads or post in threads fast enough to even casue a hicup.
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by vader716
Getting ready to make a smart comment and then I noticed the red....this is going to take some getting use to.
I dont get it, whats going to take some getting use to?
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by ThumperMX113
Did you miss the memo? 
Whats up?
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by CrAz3D
Yea I missed that one.
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From: Your moms house
Originally Posted by CrAz3D
dude......
Raoul knows JuJitsu
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From: Detroit Rock City
Originally Posted by dzervit
...However, it started with a bunch of us old timers getting tired of people using 800x600 pictures with a 39 line parts list of mods for signatures...
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
You cant get enough people to open enough threads or post in threads fast enough to even cause a hicup.
I need to retract this statemnt, I don't know if it is still possiable, but a few years ago, there use to be a forum on the net that everyone was scared of. If they got mad at another online forum they would attack and overload the server with post until it crashed.
D you've got a good memory, who was that?
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Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
I need to retract this statemnt, I don't know if it is still possiable, but a few years ago, there use to be a forum on the net that everyone was scared of. If they got mad at another online forum they would attack and overload the server with post until it crashed.
D you've got a good memory, who was that?
D you've got a good memory, who was that?
Hah, a forum i used to go to that was on a bad forum engine had a weird quote system, and i remember quoting about 500 times and just copy and pasting a bunch of html i nthis forum.
and i made it so messed up that when youd go to the part of the message board that the post was in, all youd get was a white blank page