Hi Everyone,
I need some opinions about this issue.....
Currently I'm running a Vbulletin fourm that take up to around say 13 GB per month. Around 3million hits per month..
I'm on the personal package at Aletia, which provides 10GB bandwidth per month.

At Aletia, the most I can get is 15 GB for essential package.

Finding advertisement deals or hosting sponsers are quite impossible these days...
So what are my options here? Any hint or tip on optimizeding VBB? or how to generate some income from this kind of dicussion forum?


Any inputs are greatly appriciated.

Take donations :D


We've always ran a forum without banners and stuff, and its just costing to much anymore to run, so we are thinking about taking donations, and our loyal members have said they'd donate enough for our own dedicated server if we wanted it :D

What is the focus of your vB community? Take that into consideration when looking for companies to buy ad space. Find services that are targeted to your users.

You could also request donations. Wouldn't take that many each month to cover the cost of a better plan.

Andyc

Donations? How can weaccept donation ..? since we don't have merchant accoutns to accept visa

you can consider Paypal

Originally posted by alpha
you can consider Paypal

I heard a lot of horror stories about them... are they reliable still?

You shouldn't be using PayPal if your revenue is over couple thousand per month (just a round figure) but for small donations, I don't think you would have to deal with horror stories of your own...