Hey,
I was just wondering... Your server fees for WebHostingTalk must get expensive. How do you pay for them? And the bandwidth must be killer since your servers are based at VDI. Do you guys have venture captial? Or do you have web hosts give you support money? It just occured to me that you guys have no advertising on your pages or anything.

Jim

probably sell out out names or any contact info or get paid by wizardhost to advrtise them or webtrends.

Yeah, probably.

See that link in the bottom right hand corner of the pages? That's how we pay for it. Server and hosting is donated by Carlos.

It is Matt's aim to keep the forum free from advertising. Of course if the t-shirt idea takes off, maybe the mods will get a raise :)

You mean, the MODS get paid for doing this? Is it a full time job? Man, thats cool though. Do you always have a MOD working 24/7?

Jim

I Think Matt should give Carlos a nice linked graphic up in that wasted white space in the top left corner beneath Webhostingtalk I never even noticed that other little squiggle before you mentioned it.

The bandwidth for WHT can't be TOO high, as it's mostly text with very few graphics. I would be surprised if this site uses more than 50 gigs/month. System resources are another issue though. ;)

Best Regards,
Matt Lightner
mlightner@site5.com

WHT consumes average 15GB per month..-- that is what I was told some time ago.

Originally posted by jimb
You mean, the MODS get paid for doing this?

No we don't, hence the little joke :)

Site5-Matt-
I think it is more 15-25, Matt (your other brother Matt for Newhart fans), removed even our spiffy logo to reduce transfer. Must be the smilies pushing all the gigs?

Site5-Matt-
I think it is more 15-25, Matt (your other brother Matt for Newhart fans), removed even our spiffy logo to reduce transfer. Must be the smilies pushing all the gigs? [/B]
*grin* <--- (My futile attempt to conserve WHT's bandwidth. The bandwidth that I saved by not using the actual smiley image has no doubt been wasted on this lengthy, useless explanation)

Oh well... can't blame a guy for trying. *wink*

Best Regards,
Matt Lightner
mlightner@site5.com

hey jim is that you ?

well if Matt upgraded to vB 2 beta 4 and enabled gzip compression that bandwidth would fall dramatically ;)

Man, I didnt know the little faces could comsume that much bandwidth...

Yeah its me.

Jim

Originally posted by jimb
Man, I didnt know the little faces could comsume that much bandwidth...

Yeah its me.

Jim *** waves *** :D

Originally posted by jimb
Man, I didnt know the little faces could comsume that much bandwidth...

Yeah its me.

Jim

:D They're kidding..

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I am going to singlehandedly destroy this board and Wizards hosting by using 11 icons in this post...that will consume all of their bandwidth and cause their destruction ;)!

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

<dangit!! you can only have 10 icons in a post!!>

Originally posted by jimb
Man, I didnt know the little faces could comsume that much bandwidth...

:beer: lol

It's all the fancy HTML table formatting that's eating up the bandwidth. If you save this page as text only you'll find it contains about 12k of text; if you save the HTML that makes up this page, it's about 50k, and that's quite a lot.

Well then, to save the $$, let's design webpages in ASCII format :D

Originally posted by uuallan
I am going to singlehandedly destroy this board and Wizards hosting by using 11 icons in this post...that will consume all of their bandwidth and cause their destruction ;)!
:D

Originally posted by uuallan

<dangit!! you can only have 10 icons in a post!!>

I like that one!!! LOL

Jim

You can specify in your vB control panel how many icons are allowed per post :)

Originally posted by BC
You can specify in your vB control panel how many icons are allowed per post :)

Then I'll have to alter my evil plan...I'll start topics with titles like:

Linux kicks FreeBSD butt!
Programmers are overpaid!

And other topics that will guarantee a reply from Tim. His responses alone probably add 5 gigs to your monthly transfer :D.

Originally posted by uuallan
And other topics that will guarantee a reply from Tim. His responses alone probably add 5 gigs to your monthly transfer :D.

True that!

Jim

Originally posted by uuallan
Originally posted by BC
You can specify in your vB control panel how many icons are allowed per post :)

Then I'll have to alter my evil plan...I'll start topics with titles like:

Linux kicks FreeBSD butt!
Programmers are overpaid!

And other topics that will guarantee a reply from Tim. His responses alone probably add 5 gigs to your monthly transfer :D.

*lol*

Actually I have noticed over on JaguarPC's forums that Tim tends more towards brevity than long-windedness :D