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Thortok2000 wrote..What we're looking for is a company that would not notice that we exist, even if we're using 10 gb of space and many times as much bandwidth. Because a solid, large company like that can get away with supporting a CS fansite with little return and can also sustain us for years instead of weeks (such as Dathorn or GameDaemons).
I totally understand and agree. However, just from the way you presented it in your post, it still sounds like asking for a lot, giving a little. You're putting the banner ad and blurb on ONE page of your site. Sure, it'll be a page frequently visited every time their bandwidth is actually used, but it still doesn't feel like a lot. Maybe if their ads get added to the rotating ads on the main page, or an article gets done about that website and what's so cool about it, or something.
Of course, though, any partners we have are going to get perks like the ones you mention. Spelling that out in the post would simply attract too many small companies who wouldn't be around for the long haul. But I have updated the news post to reflect that there will be some advertising support for our partners.
We simply want to deliver fast and reliable downloads to the CS community. I think there are companies out there that want to facilitate it because they know that the PC game modding culture is important to keep alive — especially in the face of Xbox Live Arcade.
This is the closest analogy:
http://www.fpsbanana.com/mirrors
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/download/25551
FPSBANANA is an awesome site with great integrity. We're happy to be providing the same benefits to our mirrors as FPSB does.
pudge7000 wrote..Hey pudge7000!
Rizzuh I might be able to help you out. How much bandwith is needed (general estimate) per month?
I honestly have no idea how much bandwidth is required, unfortunately. I know that sounds stupid. Perhaps we can set up a trial run, where I get you all the files and give you a phone call before going live so you can monitor the usage and make sure everything will be fine.
Basically, though, a lot of bandwidth. If you're paying for personal hosting then our users would probably blow through that. :/
diamon12 wrote..Hey, I got your e-mail and and.. you're right. I need to fix that. The feed happens to work in Google Reader, but for reason there's an XML error in the feed.
Why then has the RSS-feed been broken for a long time now? I even e-mailed you about it but never got any response or anything... Just wondering why it takes so much time to fix small bugs...
The reason it takes a while to fix silly bugs is that I have a full-time programming job. Working with code all day makes it hard to want to come home and bother with code there too! Girls, concerts, and having too many friends get in the way as well
But I sympathize with your plight. I use RSS feeds and definitely want to provide that service to our readers. I'm sorry I didn't reply and I'm sorry it's taken so long to fix things. Unfortunately, I'm in crunch right now — so it might take a little while before I fix things.
I wish someone else on the team knew PHP
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