Warez rule

[Deus]

Hopefully this poll isnt against the rules but ill appologise in advance if it is. I think it would be nice to discuss warez and not have to be so pro copyright but I can see why its needed.

[SKD_Tech]

I think it keeps people in order and keeps this site legal

[gd_nimrod]

Well, for this site, i dont think its as much that the admin doesnt LIKE warez, its just that sometimes the forums provider doesnt allow any links or posts relating to copyrighted files...

[admin]

Or web hosts that have "no warez" clauses in their contract.

[chickeneater]

what is this sites host?

[admin]

Cheap as chips dedicated servers from "Rackshack". Actually not that cheap if you go for their memory upgrades, which involves a monthly fee of about $20 for 512 MB of RAM (so that's $240 a year, every year!!). Cheaper than virtual hosts if you've got lots of sites (many smaller ISPs/web hosts resell Rackshack servers as well).

And cheap bandwidth ($99 for 400 GB per month)

[SKD_Tech]

Believe me your helping a lot of people having this site up it is worth the money in my eyes

So that is why rackshack pop-ups come up

[admin]

So that is why rackshack pop-ups come up

Ummm ... not really.

The servers are dedicated servers, and hence, all you get with the package is Linux with server software (Apache, PHP) installed. Additional software can be installed on it. All the setup of the servers, sites are done by me.

For the hardware, you get a Celeron/P3/p4/Athlon machine with half a gig of RAM (or more) and 60 GB of hard-drive. You can install as many sites as you want on the one server (each site is referred to as a "virtual server"), and you don't share the hardware with anyone else.

With virtual web hosting, such as that you get with Geocities or one of those $9.95 per year deals, up to 1000 sites can be stored on the same hardware server (albeit a much beefier server). In fact, quite a few smaller web hosts may rent a single Rackshack server with 400 GB of bandwidth per month, and then re-sell it as 200 virtual accounts with 2 GB /mo each (200 * $9.95 = $1990 per year, from a server that costs about only $1200 per year). Not a bad business, if you ask me

Free sites such as Geocities make money from pop-up ads instead of a subscription fee, but the principle is the same.

I think the pop-ups (probably pop-unders, since I've deselected all the pop-ups) are actually for Rackspace, not Rackshack, which is another cheap (but not as cheap) as chips dedicated web host.

[SKD_Tech]

Rackspace sounds like a good set-up but I am going to wait until I actually get some webmastering classes and a site that will actually make it big before I consider something like that

[Deus]

So the "no warez" clause states you cant have discussion of warez? or just the discussion might lead to linking or posting of programs that are prohibited by the contract?

[SKD_Tech]

You cannot link to them because if you link you are assumed to support and maybe even host warez and cracks

[hacker_on_fire]

@Admin

Who funds running this forum and the digital-digest.com cos when you add the costs it comes to a large sum?

[admin]

Who funds running this forum and the digital-digest.com cos when you add the costs it comes to a large sum?

This site is funded by the MPAA in a bid to catch people trying to make illegal copies of their DVDs !!

Seriously though ... I am happy to say that Digital Digest (and DivX Digest, DVDR Digest ...) can now fully fund itself (plus a little extra for my *cough* hard *cough* work)

The costs are alright for a site of this size, about $US 6000 per year (that's mainly for servers and bandwidth) - other sites rely a lot on donations (not just money, but bandwidth, servers ...), but I've had run ads to keep up with the costs (mainly because not a lot of people wants to donate anything to help this crappy site stay alive )

It wasn't always self-supporting though, and that's why for a while, there was a big push for donations. I think there's another thread about advertiser links in this forum - every little bit helps.

I'm tired now, so I think I'll just go and watch a DVD on my 50" plasma screen, sitting on my expensive imported Italian leather sofa that matches the decor of my mansion. I won't watch the whole movie tonight, after all, I have to wake up early in the morning so I can go buy four new luxury cars, as my current four is already a month old!!

[Deus]

Only $6000 a year? Thats not bad. So you actually live off of the add profits? Doesent sound like a bad occupation to me!

[t3ch]

I <3 you admin