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Originally Posted by GatorBeetle
No, this is an issue of current usage. If they were only on the day they registered, they are only taking up a small amount of storage (for their account.) This an issue of the priority a service provider gives your site (thus the number of simultaneous connections it allows) and how much is paid for that service.
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Exactly right. We are not exceeding our bandwidth or disk space limits at this time. We're on a shared sever (there are other sites on it too), so resources must be split amongst them. To make a more real life comparison, this is like if you were using so much water that no one else in your city could take a shower. What do you think would happen? The city would probably limit the amount of water you're allowed to use. That's exactly what's happened here.
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Originally Posted by GatorBeetle
While I don't want to speak for him, I know from Jeff's previous posts, he does not want to make NB.ORG a "pay as you go" site.
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Yeah, I would definitely prefer not to. I've made the claim in the past that this site will always be free, and I'd love to be able to stick to that.
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It is clear from the changes which he made with the VB upgrade and server switch, that while Member Sponsers got some "perks" it is still a free site. Jeff would be taking on quite a bit of risk if he upgraded now based on a donations with no plan for a steady regular income. |
Yep, that's right. In order to do it, I'd need to have several months in a row in which donations exceeded whatever the hosting cost would be, so that I was absolutely confident I'd always be able to pay the bill at the end of the month.
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As far as registering the chat...there are other options, which apparently work as several ORG'ers have reported. Give Jeff a rest on that. He is not obligated to provide web based chat at all, folks!! Also, if you need to chat, there are other places you could go. Just my $.02...
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I appreciate that, but I will happily take the blame on the chat. I should've registered it ages ago. I got screwed out of $50 by them and was hoping I'd get it back, but I realized several months ago that wasn't going to happen. I need to bite the bullet and get it registered it. I'm not really
obligated, but I've said I would and I should.
I'll get it done.