APE wrote:Hello
@VoIP,
Forumotion is a free forum host and we don't make a lot of money,
Most of our income comes from ad's on your forums and now and then we get a little from you the members if you pay for credits to use on removing ad's but this is not a lot of money.
To add our own pictures and images host on our servers will only slow things down and take up much needed space.
This is why we have out side hosts to help us with this.
Photobuket has NEVER been one of our out side hosts it's just members have used them before.
We pay for the following hosts servimg and Imgur of their service and they give us just what we need.
I do understand what your saying that if servimg or Imgur do some work on their servers it can get some down time but this is not very often and we don't see it a problem.
We can't say that that system will be up 100% as we can't even say we can be up 100% no one can.
Even if we was to host things our end we can not guarantee we could be running them 100% we also have to do updates and change things on our servers so if we had this it could go down just like outside hosts.
Also using Big Data / cloud based systems will cost to much to keep and there is still limits they have and to tell you the truth we just don't make that sort of money to have all our forums using that sort of thing.
You have to remember we are a FREE forum host not a paid service.
And this post was only made to worn members of what was going on not really anything else.
Thanks for Response
@Ape but the following is a list for you.
I am not understanding this
"We pay for the following hosts servimg and Imgur of their service and they give us just what we need." if you are paying for the usuage why isn't this inccorporated into the forum? Even if the core images (such as the theme) was being hosted, we can't expect more than 1gb of data, I'd estimiate about 300mb or so.
"Even if we was to host things our end we can not guarantee we could be running them 100% we also have to do updates and change things on our servers so if we had this it could go down just like outside hosts." -- I never stated 100% I realize updates are a neccesties for a web server, but what I am stating to that is, if the forum software is providing the support for the software, why not the digtial accessbility to the images. We are talking "7" kb for a jpeg of 100px x 100px.
You have to remember we are a FREE forum host not a paid service.I understand its a free service, I used to use the forum provider for up to 5 years before leaving the forumotion scene.
And this post was only made to worn members of what was going on not really anything else.Yes, and a warning needs a resolution. My resolution is to just have forumotion backup the theme, again we are looking at under 300mb of image data for the theme. Avatars, are at least important its the critical parts of the forum such as the imagery. Else we might as well be running a Lynx browser on the page, its just text and css colors. Again to the resolution, forumotion can provide a throttled dropbox.
I may not understand the purpose of forumotion deciding to be using third party websites, but to answer this:
To add our own pictures and images host on our servers will only slow things down and take up much needed space.A resolution is to disable non active websites, and clear out the database. Problem solved. I noticed there are far too many forumotion websites that are outdated with lack of activity and if there is no activity between 2+ years, safe to say remove it.
Last edited by VoIP on 18.07.17 2:43; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Cleaner view.)
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