[ZhangFei]

any ideas? mods?:D

[murd0c]

take a look at all the mods in the different areas, basicly someone has to be on all the time to moderate things. Why do you need to know? there are not many fourms like this and not many have the chance/ability to do what Revscene has done.

[alex.w *//]

message KaOsTiK

http://www.revscene.net/forums/member.php?u=2524

[d1]

http://www.theclaussens.net/gallery/front-page-pics/over9000.jpg

[Mercy]

Does revscene run forums or do they pay another company to use a forum?

[Presto]

Things keep going as long as someone remembers to feed the hamster that's running on the wheel to power the server, which is an IBM XT w/ 640KB and High Density 1.44MB Floppy drive.

[twitchyzero]

imagine how much money revscene wouldve saved without all the useless posts
:lol

[carisear]

imagine how much money revscene wouldve saved without all the useless posts
:lol


$0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00002?

[Shun Izaki]

i remember when we used to be on EZboard, and I used to be a fucking lurker.

wow, that was 10 years ago.

[JSALES]

when did revscene first start? 10 years is a long time

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

like in 2000 or 2001 i forgot.

[impactX]

2000

[penner2k]

Are you talking gigs as in how much space or how much bandwidth?

[underscore]

^ I think he means server space

[wouwou]

Hyde powered RS by himself,

You need Hydes, not Gigs

[underscore]

^ so Hyde's the hamster that powers RS?

[johny]

its all text with some 4kb aviatar pics.. I bet the total server space is nothing.

it's the bandwidth that is huge and $$$.

[underscore]

there's is a LOT of text tho. and now photo galleries

[Mancini]

take a look at all the mods in the different areas, basicly someone has to be on all the time to moderate things. Why do you need to know? there are not many fourms like this and not many have the chance/ability to do what Revscene has done.

What does this have to do with a request for a numerical value of server space used?

[fliptuner]

I'm no computer whiz but ionno ......... 3?

[ZhangFei]

there's is a LOT of text tho. and now photo galleries

lol... do you think its possible that all the text can be fitted on a 4.5GB DVD-R?

text doesn't take that much space does it?

[Shun Izaki]

OP's probably referring to BW used by the server, and believe me... it's a lot.

[underscore]

lol... do you think its possible that all the text can be fitted on a 4.5GB DVD-R?

text doesn't take that much space does it?

no but there's 9 years worth of threads. pictures and vids are all links, but the bandwidth would be insane.

[Vansterdam]

real question is how many gbs of porn do us RS members have altogether

[underscore]

duplicates or unique pornos?

[Shun Izaki]

real question is how many gbs of porn do us RS members have altogether

Let's count the numerous times i've seen RSers profiles show up on PTnA + other sites... i'd say well into the 10's of terrabytes

[tiger_handheld]

imagine how much money revscene wouldve saved without all the useless posts
:lol


Actually it'd be losing money, cuz if you think about, SG has to front the cash to the hosting company, and if there was no traffic, no one would advertise, thus resulting in a NL. When you have atleast some useless posts, people know the banner ads get atleast 4 eyeballs, so they decide to advertise, and SG recoups some of his money.

;)

[Harvey Specter]

Dude, hyde owns the interweb.

[Mr.HappySilp]

real question is how many gbs of porn do us RS members have altogether

I think I have or 9000GBS of porn :eek::eek::eek:

[ZhangFei]

Actually it'd be losing money, cuz if you think about, SG has to front the cash to the hosting company, and if there was no traffic, no one would advertise, thus resulting in a NL. When you have atleast some useless posts, people know the banner ads get atleast 4 eyeballs, so they decide to advertise, and SG recoups some of his money.

;)

4 eyeballs? :eek: wtf? I have only two.

[!SG]

this is probably as close to the answer as it will ever get

how big is RS's DB? i believe the DB is about 40G's total.

how much traffic does RS take? right now, its around 3000G a month, after skinnypupp and kaostik helped refine, optimize, and make the servers more efficient, traffic dropped from around 7000G's a month, to about 3000Gs a month.

that is why im not as stressed anymore, no one likes paying for an extra 1000G's of traffic a month. at .50 each G overage.

how much bandwidth does RS have? we purchased 12.5Mbps total, 8Up, 4.5Down. (the ups and downs are referenced to the servers)

How hard is it to start a forum? not very hard, maintaining it is the issue. because we run google ads now, traffic is just as important as ever. as you have seen, the economy has hit our local vendors, thus RS has lost a lot of local support this past year.

Actually it'd be losing money, cuz if you think about, SG has to front the cash to the hosting company, and if there was no traffic, no one would advertise, thus resulting in a NL. When you have atleast some useless posts, people know the banner ads get atleast 4 eyeballs, so they decide to advertise, and SG recoups some of his money.

;)

[hotjoint]

I love RS :)

[tiger_handheld]

4 eyeballs? :eek: wtf? I have only two.

No wonder you post weird ass shit, you only got two eyeballs! Regular Joe's have 4.

On Topic: 4 eyeballs: 2 for the guy who's posting , and 2 for the guy who's reading ;)

[ZhangFei]

No wonder you post weird ass shit, you only got two eyeballs! Regular Joe's have 4.

On Topic: 4 eyeballs: 2 for the guy who's posting , and 2 for the guy who's reading ;)

WTF?? Dude you're FUCKING WEIRD!!!!

this is tiger_handheld:

http://www.nickbachman.com/images/gonzsm.jpg

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

this is probably as close to the answer as it will ever get

how big is RS's DB? i believe the DB is about 40G's total.

how much traffic does RS take? right now, its around 3000G a month, after skinnypupp and kaostik helped refine, optimize, and make the servers more efficient, traffic dropped from around 7000G's a month, to about 3000Gs a month.

that is why im not as stressed anymore, no one likes paying for an extra 1000G's of traffic a month. at .50 each G overage.

how much bandwidth does RS have? we purchased 12.5Mbps total, 8Up, 4.5Down. (the ups and downs are referenced to the servers)

How hard is it to start a forum? not very hard, maintaining it is the issue. because we run google ads now, traffic is just as important as ever. as you have seen, the economy has hit our local vendors, thus RS has lost a lot of local support this past year.

a lot of sponsors left as well, not necessary RS giving sponsors a bad rate. In fact the new promo to advertise is actually reallly affordable. But what may be the downfall to advertise is the sponsors are just not getting enough business out of RS, even when they are doing the promos. Its a tough business afterall

[!SG]

its like with every advertising medium, you need to work it to make it work for you.

say u advertise in a newspaper, u need a flashy eye catching ad, so that ppl will spot it. there are sponsors that have gotten the idea of how to make RS work for them, and thus have made it very profitable, but if u expect to just sit there, waving a flag, rs isnt going to work for you, the internet isnt going to work for you. Ive given some pointers to sponsors on how to attack RS to yield the highest potential profits and sales. its a base like to modify from and its worked greatly for those that have taken advantage of that.

no different that operating a shop in a mall, unless you advertise where you are, what you sell, what sales you have, turn over of merchandise, store hours, what services you offer, and on top of that, have a nice looking attractive store front, no one is going to notice you. if u say "we sell stuff, and we do stuff, come check us out" that isnt gonna help either =)

[Orion]

RS doesn't need anybody to operate.. since 2004 its unplugged itself and became self-aware...

[!SG]

and all the members are part of the grid and are just... batteries =P