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Survivor Sucks, A pricing query

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RichardHMorris

Posted: Mar 4 2008, 09:06 AM

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http://support.yuku.com/topic/6540/t/Pre-Yuku-Community-Chest-Funds.html

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Either I completely misunderstand how to read these stats, or yuku's still working out the stats kinks, and I've been an ez/yuku customer long enough to know that either explanation is equally plausible

Silly old Anti! It's all explained here:

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Working out how much your Gold Community is going to cost is not as difficult as it seems.

Riiiight...

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To work out in advance what 1 year of ad-free page views could cost you, use the No Ads/Opted total for 1 month, and apply it to this equation:

(ad-free page views/1000) * .2 * 12 (ad-free page views divided by 1000, then multiplied by .2, then multiplied by 12)

Anti quotes a load of stats. but not a whole month's worth. So I'll take the middle seven days from his quote (19/2 to 25/2):

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02-25 123644 18115 59942
02-24 91601 16377 62084
02-23 91765 14114 57279
02-22 116085 16880 70602
02-21 128017 18510 67227
02-20 129372 17541 67069
02-19 116161 19595 68929

Tally up the last column and the total "No Ads/Opted" is 453,132.

So (453,132/1000) *.2 *52 (for weeks instead of months) = $4,712.

For a message board.

Of course, at DreamHost for $120* you could start with 500GB of storage (increasing at 2GB a week) and 5TB of bandwidth a month (increasing by 40GB a week) with a free "one-click" phpBB installation. Hell, I think with the $4,600 you'd be saving, you could afford to buy a vBulletin licence. Oh and you could always run your own Google or other adverts to help generate some revenue.

Or for $4,800 a year, have a dedicated server with 24/7 server monitoring - Yuku only appear to have 12/5 support... - and hourly versioned backups too. Ask Yuku about backups...

*oh and use the promo code EZSAVE50 and get $50 off for the first year.

I love MJNet	Posted: Mar 5 2008, 11:59 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 880 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-February 06	What more can I say!

Queeny	Posted: Mar 5 2008, 08:19 PM
Poster Group: Members Posts: 894 Member No.: 54 Joined: 25-April 07	Can't touch that!

RichardHMorris	Posted: Mar 11 2008, 12:02 PM
Poster Group: Admin Posts: 977 Member No.: 5 Joined: 14-February 06	Of course if you look at it in the round, something definitely doesn't add up: http://wp.bluescrap.com/2008/03/11/yuku-pr...and-ad-revenue/

love like a bomb	Posted: Apr 5 2008, 03:59 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Member No.: 177 Joined: 23-August 07	Sucks on anything other than Yuku? Awful as Yuku may be, I can't imagine Sucks being on any software other than DCForum/ezBoard/Yuku.

RichardHMorris

Posted: Apr 5 2008, 04:25 PM

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QUOTE (love like a bomb @ Apr 5 2008, 04:59 PM)

Awful as Yuku may be, I can't imagine Sucks being on any software other than DCForum/ezBoard/Yuku.

Why not? Are those using it incapable of using better message boards?

dinkster123	Posted: Apr 5 2008, 04:33 PM
Poster Group: Admin Posts: 2,526 Member No.: 3 Joined: 13-February 06	This might be tangential, but... ...aren't there options where a board owner could set up some kind of paypal option on their board so that they can collect additional funds (say if the board was moved to vbulletin and self hosted)? I don't expect sucks to move because of the special treatment they get and also because of the difficulty of porting over their posts to a new system, but it would be a vast improvement over staying with Yuku.

love like a bomb

Posted: Apr 6 2008, 09:10 PM

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QUOTE (RichardHMorris @ Apr 5 2008, 04:25 PM)

QUOTE (love like a bomb @ Apr 5 2008, 04:59 PM)

Awful as Yuku may be, I can't imagine Sucks being on any software other than DCForum/ezBoard/Yuku.

Why not? Are those using it incapable of using better message boards?

Not that, we're just used to ez/Yuku and their "features."

RichardHMorris	Posted: Apr 7 2008, 07:40 AM
Poster Group: Admin Posts: 977 Member No.: 5 Joined: 14-February 06	What? Like really expensive, excessive downtime, bugs and censorship?

Sister Vigilante	Posted: Apr 8 2008, 11:50 PM
Poster Group: Members Posts: 323 Member No.: 22 Joined: 9-June 06	Sucks doesn't get inflated pricing or censorship, remember

RichardHMorris	Posted: Apr 9 2008, 08:44 AM
Poster Group: Admin Posts: 977 Member No.: 5 Joined: 14-February 06	It never used to at ezboard as Labatt was so desperate to keep them. The same may not be true at KickApps/Yuku though...

love like a bomb

Posted: Apr 21 2008, 01:22 AM

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QUOTE (RichardHMorris @ Apr 7 2008, 07:40 AM)

What? Like really expensive, excessive downtime, bugs and censorship?

You won't believe it, but that's what we mean by "features."

Minus the censorship, though. Isn't that up to the board owner?

And I don't believe for a second that Sucks is getting free Gold Community. Sucks stays alive through Yuku Supporters and user donations.

RichardHMorris

Posted: Apr 22 2008, 07:14 AM

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QUOTE (love like a bomb @ Apr 21 2008, 02:22 AM)

Minus the censorship, though. Isn't that up to the board owner?

Anywhere else, yes, but we've already seen ransom deleting posts from other boards.

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