How much does this forum cost to run Recently i had been to some website form were i download torrent movies
I keep seeing these sites saying that the cost of running is very high and they keep asking members to contribute
I think Admin if you don't mind tell us, what does it cost you to host this site?
Is it a very huge amount?
and I was in the impression that Host of the site earns from his/her site
Please Clarify
It all depends upon the space usage. With adverts and sponsors the cost can come down or become free. If a website becomes very popular, sponsors come forth.
coming back to the main question, any idea abt the cost to the host?
If there are ad's such as Google ads and people click on the same.
At the moment it just costs $10 per month for hosting.. its the marketing expenses which are a killer
so what was the intial cost??
initial cost was $100 or soemthing like that for the script and $150 for vbseo.
$9 for the domain name and $10 per month for hosting.
The above costs are the basic costs for starting up a vbuletin forum.
Then comes the tough part of bringing in the traffic and there are many ways of doing that... some cost nothing but hard work and the other way around is to spend money like mad on marketing and seo.
In the long run both the methods work equally well but spending a lot of money does have its plus in the short and medium term.
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After looking at the present picture and I am sure you are on cloud 9
Keep it up!!!
Yes. For many of the problems/issues related to BB, our website comes up first in the Google search. That is how I joined up.
Great work, Admin.
I also found this site from Google. I dont remember what I was searching for but i am very glad that I found India BB
There had been a very fundamental flaw in my seo approach from the very begining and I have wasted a lot of money that way by pushing this forum for extremely competetive keywords and ignoring long phrases which is where most Indian traffic comes from.
When I first started this forum I had no idea about searching habbits of Indian netizens as I never had a site targeted to Indian audiance before and I kind of had the one fits all approach and targetted the extremely competetive keywords which costed a lot initially and I ignored the long phrases.
In India we have a tendency of actually writing up the whole question in sentences in the search field on google..
For example some one would search for : how do I set up an xyz modem
My approach was that I targetted the modem names and isp names and stuff like that instead of what people in India had been searching for.
I am slowly working on long phrases and you must have seen a surge in traffic in the last few months....
Our members can also play a huge role in getting this forum on top by using appropriate tags when they create a new thread.
Tags field is right under the field where you type your text for the thread.
10 $ per month
how much storage space do u have?
Thanks Admin
I hit this forum from google when i was looking for Indian ISP reviews
And got hooked on to it as it has so many wonderful ppl
600gb
gardencityboy You have made this place even more wonderful.
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how much used?
less then 2gb
Yup i was also lookin for an isp review... rel wimax that is... and after ordering that is... ahem... rest is history in the making... lol
I just now filed another complaint after 18 days of being disfuntional, the operator saying "yes i have forwarded the complaint on an specially urgent basis and you will get a call from the tech staff and they will fix alll your problems...!!" let alone the problem solving i dint even get a call... i had even made him write in the complaint that i wud have the connection terminated if not fixed in the next 48 hrs...
Admin if it weren't for you i wud have no place to vent off my views for the service... Thanx a lot man! You rock!
Talk about job satisfaction
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Rs400/month for this
u are spending too much
1. our admin is smart...
2. our admin is cute lookin in this pic..
3. hip hip hurray
u know what admin.. i was thinkin.. why cant we do a thing.. instead of uploading and all to other sites.. ie.. rapidshare, image hosts, image shak, file hosting etc etc... why cant we store by ourself?? i mean.. if i wanna download...i get a link of rapidshare in ere... but like suppose,, i get a link... i click it.. immadiately i get download box.. i mean u can increase the storage.. all can upload ere.. uve heard of site MOBILE CASTLE?? i ve seen it .,..the posts are like download links.. click n download.. so easy it becomes for ever1... wat u think?
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Not a bad idea Milan but I foresee a fwe issues:
a) The first issue will be space. Now 600GB may sound like a lot but if we start uploading avi files it will get consumed very fast.
b) Even if the above issue is circumvented somehow, the forum's main theme (BB and issues) will get sidetracked and it will become more of a file exchange site.
c) Finally, there is the issue of copyright. I do not know how RS has managed to stay unaffected so long. Maybe it is because they officially do not allow public exchanges. But there is a web site called eSnips where each user could get 5 GB space and they could store anything they liked out there. It became popular for Songs/MP3 exchange but it was asked to swoop down. Now it does not allow music (and movie) storage anymore.
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this 600 gb space is just for marketing purposes Its a shared host and as soon as the usage goes up say beyond 100gb in a month they will kick me out.. Althought they say 6000gb is my alocation but thats not true as every host oversells and makes huge claims hostgator has to keep up with their lies aswell althought they are one of the best.
File sharing sites are not something one can host on a shared server as it will slow down other sites on that server.
All the file sharing sites you see have their own dedicated servers and rapidshare has hundreds of them and they are a big business now and being hosted in Germany they have their own laws there which keep them imune to any USA laws. Rapidshare also has their own set of rules displayed on their site and if you ever see anything copyrighted (owned by you or whome you represent) you can send them a mail and it gets deleted asap.
There is nothing better then torrents for file sharing
got some points from kix...but admin... aap ka sab kuch upar se gaya,... he he he..
ok i accept abt the storage thing.. and other thing is admin said copyright issues... but u know in internet.. soemthin dreamt can b real.. just think.. if atall admin takes a chance for us to make up more storage space... indeed not like RS.. whos space is in tera bytes.. somethin less little bit can also do... as it can only be restricted by our forum users.. so..
regarding copyright.. i can tell u admin.. u can mask up all things eg..suppose i upload a music track.. in this site.. i wont get adirect link such tht the link contains the name of music file.. it can be random letters or numbers or anythin. .so tht if anyone who try to catch also cant guess.. wats in the file.. secondly.. it wont come on search page.. wat u think??
i know i m speaking out of blue i guess.... stilll speaking,,, because,, i think this forum worths somthing big..
u mean like puuting our cute admin in a cyber cell???
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