Who is a donator, demographically speaking?

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Postby elvirasweeney » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:15 pm

Bandwidth costs vary, depending on the system resources used. A site which has straightforward downloads (not a lot of dynamic content, you know, like message boards and user control panels and other features that require databases) can get away with a cheap web hosting plan. I have sites like that. They use up perhaps a total of several 100 GB a month, and yet I pay peanuts. But if I were to start adding databases and getting a HUGE amount of users coming on at the same time, then I'm sure I'd need to get dedicated hosting, which would cost a LOT more.

I am a donater for the same reason as JaddziaDax: I don't want to feel like a leech. I sometimes view the videos here (fabulous stuff!), but to be honest I enjoy this place because it is an excellent resource for any type of fan video authoring. I've found some wonderful helpful information here for editing on a Mac. Donating a small sum was the least I could do! :D
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Postby Corran » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:09 pm

Kind of a late reply... like Kalium, I don't know all the details, but to give an idea of the traffic this site generates:

Over the past year, the two video servers alone generated 70Mb/s of data on average. If you do the math that comes out to be approximately 22456 gigabytes of data a month or 263 terabytes of transfer a year.

By comparison, RDS's website only generates 400 gigabytes a month on a dedicated server.

Also, that spiffy 2 terabyte server that a-m-v.org got back in Feb '05 is already 75% full so we will need an additional server before too long.

Other collocation costs to take into consideration include rack space, physical security, and any hands on labor the collocation facility provides.
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Postby Orwell » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:18 pm

Who does all of the budgetting, acquiring new servers, phade? Does he, or some company, hold the actual servers?
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Postby Corran » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:30 pm

Collocation means you own the servers but they are housed in a data centers for high speed connections to the internet 'core' or 'backbone'. So a-m-v.org owns the servers but they are housed in a data center. I'm certain Phade does the budgeting since he created the site and pays the bills. Derobert probably plays a large role in choosing hardware since he configured and installed the last server.
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Postby Orwell » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:19 pm

Derobert is still around?
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Postby Kalium » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:28 pm

Always. He's just stealthy like that.
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Postby ssj4lonewolf » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:25 am

I honestly wanted to donate just for the fact that this is somthing im interested in, and I really don't want to see it die off. I'm willing to donate more if need be and seeing the numbers I probley will soon. You guys get mad props for keeping this site, and servers up.

75mb/s....got damn.
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Postby Minion » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:57 am

i was told there would be hookers and blow
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Postby jasper-isis » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:02 pm

Corran wrote:a-m-v.org owns the servers but they are housed in a data center.


I think I've driven by that place before. People keep joking that it hosts like half the internet. And not just the shoddy parts, either. :P
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Postby Kalium » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:05 pm

Hurricane Electric is a big-time colo.
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Postby jasper-isis » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:06 pm

I thought we used Equinix?
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Postby Kalium » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:10 pm

I believe the Org moved to H-E a while back. It was when the Org got a major bandwidth upgrade.
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Postby 808-buma » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:46 pm

I'm still not 100% sure why I donate... but I'm glad I do. It doesn't seem that I'm the 'average' donator - few videos, not very active

However, this is one of the few sites that I've ever become a paying member for and for some reason, I feel okay bout it. Its like being a Public Radio member, but with download privileges...
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Postby SQ » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:54 pm

I've been reading the discussion here for a few days and I am very interested in actual numbers. Although it seems like nobody ever wants to give them out, for whatever reason. (Not just this site).

But to answer the OP, I donated because I support Phade. I disliked the Donut idea (after seeing it in action), I have stated this multiple times, and at this point I say my donation supports the AMV DB and the site and hobby itself... Not the donut.

That said, now I finally have a reason other than good will to donate (this forum, the alert subscribey thing, star rating search stuff...)
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Postby aznfs » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:43 pm

I just started to donate

1) not to feel like a leech
2) its my own work money

I haven't been posting on the forums lately, hell for a while now;; but i still occasionally download (ie leech) AMVs to keep my college sanity level stable
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