The Official Hello and Goodbye / General Chat Thread #2

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For some reason I feel like making a forum host...
 
Gamrpro said:
I didn't get "fired." I resigned. I'll give you the reason that I gave everyone else. I discovered something recently and it has grabbed my attention so much that I'm making it a lifetime thing. With the new discovery I discovered there's a lot more than just a computer...Have you seen the movie G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra? Well in the movie is an example, this guy discovered something underground and he thought it was so beautiful and the scientist that was there told him he'd show him everything so he never came back out and eventually he becomes a powerful scientist. It's like the same scenario.. Get it?

O.O Darth! I never knew there was a movie on the greys. I'll definitely have to see that. Oh LMAO I thought it was the alien greys not the movie "The Grey."
Gamrpro trolling us once again :lol:
 
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
For some reason I feel like making a forum host...
I've had an inkling to do it for some while now, but Tindris speaks wisdom :3

Even so, there are many popular ones out there but not all of them are providing top notch service, for example why would you make it so expensive to get ads off your forum if people are using the service because they don't have cash to host their own forum :shrug:
 
Gamrpro said:
I didn't get "fired." I resigned. I'll give you the reason that I gave everyone else. I discovered something recently and it has grabbed my attention so much that I'm making it a lifetime thing. With the new discovery I discovered there's a lot more than just a computer...Have you seen the movie G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra? Well in the movie is an example, this guy discovered something underground and he thought it was so beautiful and the scientist that was there told him he'd show him everything so he never came back out and eventually he becomes a powerful scientist. It's like the same scenario.. Get it?

O.O Darth! I never knew there was a movie on the greys. I'll definitely have to see that. Oh LMAO I thought it was the alien greys not the movie "The Grey."

I could have sworn you told me something along those lines the last time you resigned from the Package Team. 😛
 
ZINC said:
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
For some reason I feel like making a forum host...
I've had an inkling to do it for some while now, but Tindris speaks wisdom :3

Even so, there are many popular ones out there but not all of them are providing top notch service, for example why would you make it so expensive to get ads off your forum if people are using the service because they don't have cash to host their own forum :shrug:
Forum Hosts = Greedy. Servers for forum hosts = Expensive
There needs to be margin for profit :great:

2787cmt said:
Gamrpro said:
I didn't get "fired." I resigned. I'll give you the reason that I gave everyone else. I discovered something recently and it has grabbed my attention so much that I'm making it a lifetime thing. With the new discovery I discovered there's a lot more than just a computer...Have you seen the movie G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra? Well in the movie is an example, this guy discovered something underground and he thought it was so beautiful and the scientist that was there told him he'd show him everything so he never came back out and eventually he becomes a powerful scientist. It's like the same scenario.. Get it?

O.O Darth! I never knew there was a movie on the greys. I'll definitely have to see that. Oh LMAO I thought it was the alien greys not the movie "The Grey."

I could have sworn you told me something along those lines the last time you resigned from the Package Team. 😛
:lol: :lol:
 
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
For some reason I feel like making a forum host...
I've had an inkling to do it for some while now, but Tindris speaks wisdom :3

Even so, there are many popular ones out there but not all of them are providing top notch service, for example why would you make it so expensive to get ads off your forum if people are using the service because they don't have cash to host their own forum :shrug:
Forum Hosts = Greedy. Servers for forum hosts = Expensive
There needs to be margin for profit :great:
I wouldn't actually strech as far as calling them greedy. As you say servers are expensive and they also need to make a living, it just isn't a profitable business, especially not if you are trying to run a one man band.
 
I wouldn't run one man; I would get a number of people because then we're all paying less and not just one person is getting hammered.
 
Tindris said:
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
For some reason I feel like making a forum host...
I've had an inkling to do it for some while now, but Tindris speaks wisdom :3

Even so, there are many popular ones out there but not all of them are providing top notch service, for example why would you make it so expensive to get ads off your forum if people are using the service because they don't have cash to host their own forum :shrug:
Forum Hosts = Greedy. Servers for forum hosts = Expensive
There needs to be margin for profit :great:
I wouldn't actually strech as far as calling them greedy. As you say servers are expensive and they also need to make a living, it just isn't a profitable business, especially not if you are trying to run a one man band.
You make a good point, however there's a few major free hosts that are successful enough for me to see that it can be a profitable business, as long as it's run right. Which brings you back to why the ad removal and other upgrades are so expensive :great:
ZINC said:
I wouldn't run one man; I would get a number of people because then we're all paying less and not just one person is getting hammered.
But then you have to split your profits with these people, and then you just end up like the hosts you feared becoming like 😉
 
I don't care if I didn't get any cash out of it, as long as I got the cash back I couldn't care less because I would be in it for the service not the cash.
 
ZINC said:
I don't care if I didn't get any cash out of it, as long as I got the cash back I couldn't care less because I would be in it for the service not the cash.
Well then you would actually be a competitor to the big guys :great:
 
Darthmaul said:
ZINC said:
I don't care if I didn't get any cash out of it, as long as I got the cash back I couldn't care less because I would be in it for the service not the cash.
Well then you would actually be a competitor to the big guys :great:

Yup, I don't really care about cash to be honest. The script I've found (phpBB) is around $10 a month, if I got that in return I would be happy, even if the guy paying for the hosting made double what he pays a month :shrug:
 
I still don't believe it would work, it would be a full time job and who else really wants to fork out for little or no return?
 
Tindris said:
I still don't believe it would work, it would be a full time job and who else really wants to fork out for little or no return?

If you want to help the people you don't care that much. 🙂
 
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