A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Hmmph. The board will run. But if you have a large insurance policy and we're a beneficiary, watch your back. Because the board is currently expensive to run. And I can't promise when it'll be cheaper, but I can point out what usage will lock us deeper into the cost.
I'd be tempted to argue that since there are no new BtVS & A:ts episodes, we'd probably break even, but I can not. The BEAST that is the pace of
Minearverse
probably eclipses our Angel and Buffy threads combined, during sweeps, and back when more of us loved both series and posted about them with abandon.
expensive to run.
Umm. I don't claim to know much about hardcore internet service providing, but I gotta wonder... how much, for 30 GB a month? (feel free to email if this is privileged info, or just ignore me - Google can probably tell me, too, approximately.) And how much for 60?
Seeing as this board is easily more entertaining than cable, I'd be glad to pay $20-$30 a month towards it. Especially once I start getting my own paycheck, sometime well after graduation next year. (shrug). The people here make it worth it, even if I never meet them in person.
gotta wonder... how much, for 30 GB a month?
That's not where the money lies. As currently implemented, the code hits a MySQL bug which means we eat CPU cycles like Buffista F2Fers on a candy necklace.
It means we need a dedicated server, although the rest of our more quantifiable stats are certainly within shared server specs.
Tommyrot's well on the way to making changes we hope will alleviate this, and once we've confirmed that, we can reassess our capacity.
I think it's great that you want to support the site, naturally. But I don't think we should rely on our users being exceptionally flush. We need to do due diligence, both in terms of design and code, and in terms of usage.
The BEAST that is the pace of Minearverse probably eclipses our Angel and Buffy threads combined
I dunno. It seemed to have quieted down in there because Tim hadn't shown up for a while. Of course, then he did.
Hey, maybe the next thread should be
Minearverse 3: Will Someone Please Get This Man a Job?
Kristen, you have to make him a T-shirt: "Will Kill for Food"
Kristen, you have to make him a T-shirt: "Will Kill for Food"
I think you misspelt 'Pleasure'.
I don't think he'd find that funny. Also, he knows where I live.
Did we ever try using persistent MySQL connections? Did it make a difference.
We need to do due diligence, both in terms of design and code, and in terms of usage.
Oh, agreed. I guess I understand. But a dedicated server is pretty much a one-time investment, right? Or am i just totally confused on the way things work? Can you not provide your own server to whatever ISP is giving you access, with your own hard drive and CPU and whatnot? Why would CPU cycles provide a continuous expense?
Maybe I'm just dumb. It's been known to happen in the past.
Did we ever try using persistent MySQL connections? Did it make a difference.
No, we didn't -- but if we need to go deeply into it, we should more neatly take this to BBaBB. Tuning MySQL to make persistence more effective would also lock us out of a shared server.
edit: NC -- let's take yours to BBaBB too, huh?
