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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:50:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> Tim Courtney writes:
> > Eww... I'm sure you hate having to do this. Have you
> > considered other options, like subscriptions to upload images
> > to the member gallery? From what I understand, banners don't
> > pay that much, if you had something like a $5/mo subscription
> > for each gallery member, your active membership might drop a
> > bit, but you might be able to pay for it without needing banners.
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> IMO, the main great thing about Brickshelf is that it is free. It
> allows just about anyone to share their LEGO pictures. But, if
> membership fees are necessary to support the site, then perhaps you
> could use membership to turn off banner ads, or for those people who
> need over a set limit of disk space...although that hurts the people who
> post movies.
> $5/month is very high though...I pay $30/yr for a full web host with 50
> MB, 3 GB transfer, PHP, MYSQL, subdomains, etc.
> --Bram
A few days before the change at BrickShelf, I happened to be looking at the
server stats. IIRC, the daily usage from the prior *day* was something like 25GB
of traffic. Most hosting sites stop quoting at 100GB/month, so extrapolating
from their 100GB + $x.xx per additional MB left me with a large number,
somewhere in the vicinity of $10K/month. Now, maybe my numbers here are messed
up somewhere, but it would appear that we have been getting a tremendous free
lunch for quite a while.
Ray
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| (...) You hit the nail right on the head. The hosting does cost thousands of dollars per month. That had been subsidised entirely by my employer (who also used the bandwidth, rack space and servers). This new situation (employer trying not to go out (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) A lot for an individual, but presumably chicken feed for TLG, since I assume the people who use brickshelf are some of TLG's best customers. While I wouldn't mind TLG paying to run brickshelf, I'm not sure I'd like them to run it themselves, (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) IMO, the main great thing about Brickshelf is that it is free. It allows just about anyone to share their LEGO pictures. But, if membership fees are necessary to support the site, then perhaps you could use membership to turn off banner ads, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)
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