I was going to unleash the Demon Hunter on the Necromancer of this thread, but then I saw it was the developer of the site reporting his updates like a very generous fellow and I became

smiley face.

Good work. I really love your site. It's incredibly convenient

BloomFilter

Finland240 Posts

September 30 2011 21:16 GMT

#222

On October 01 2011 04:55 Knutzi wrote:
are there any plans for showing downloads and perhaps allow people to comment on replays without having to register?

The number of downloads is shown for every replay in the search results (the eye icon on the right side).. like here, but not currently on the actual replay page (ie. http://drop.sc/39214). Would you like to see the downloads on the replay page as well?

Anonymous commenting was enabled with the old user system. Bots started to become a problem, so I had to remove that.

On October 01 2011 05:01 JudicatorHammurabi wrote:
I was going to unleash the Demon Hunter on the Necromancer of this thread, but then I saw it was the developer of the site reporting his updates like a very generous fellow and I became

smiley face.

Good work. I really love your site. It's incredibly convenient

Thanks!

Thank god.. that Demon Hunter sounds like a tough guy to deal with.

BloomFilter

Finland240 Posts

September 30 2011 21:27 GMT

#223

Guys, I really could use some help. The servers, on which drop.sc runs, cost around 45$/mo and the ads generate only about 10-15$/mo. I've been paying everything out of my own pocket, but unfortunately I cannot support drop.sc forever.

I've received 0 donations and 1 registered pro account (huge thanks to him!) over the life of the website, which is now 8 months old.

Do you guys have any ideas on how to improve the situation? What would be something that you'd be willing to pay for? Or maybe there are some other ways to generate some income? Any help is appreciated, I'm kind of desperate here!

Roxy

Canada753 Posts

September 30 2011 21:29 GMT

#224

Perhaps draw more attention to the donate button?

I didn't know there was one. Sent you a dollar.

I wouldn't mind more advertisements either.

Do people on other forums know about drop.sc?

I have an account on the blizz forums (obviously), send me a link to the post and i'll +1 it

kusu

Sweden440 Posts

September 30 2011 21:34 GMT

#225

Yeah drop.sc is the best replay sharing site. I seriously wouldn't mind a few commercials here and there just to keep the site alive. And as roxy said, encourage people to donate.

Also i've noticed not much peolpe know about drop.sc. Spread the word more!

<3u

Shaok

297 Posts

September 30 2011 21:37 GMT

#226

Great site. Posting here to show my appreciation for your work.

eteran

Germany83 Posts

September 30 2011 21:48 GMT

#227

On October 01 2011 06:27 BloomFilter wrote:
Guys, I really could use some help. The servers, on which drop.sc runs, cost around 45$/mo and the ads generate only about 10-15$/mo. I've been paying everything out of my own pocket, but unfortunately I cannot support drop.sc forever.

I've received 0 donations and 1 registered pro account (huge thanks to him!) over the life of the website, which is now 8 months old.

Do you guys have any ideas on how to improve the situation? What would be something that you'd be willing to pay for? Or maybe there are some other ways to generate some income? Any help is appreciated, I'm kind of desperate here!

You could ask some Webhosters if any of them would sponsor a hosting package in exchange for being mentioned on the site. The requirements for Space and Traffic shouldn't be too high I guess?

Alternatively: Do you really require a full blown server to host the site? Maybe a simple webhosting package for 10$ could handle it aswell?

BloomFilter

Finland240 Posts

September 30 2011 22:16 GMT

#228

On October 01 2011 06:29 Roxy wrote:
Perhaps draw more attention to the donate button?

I didn't know there was one. Sent you a dollar.

I wouldn't mind more advertisements either.

Do people on other forums know about drop.sc?

I have an account on the blizz forums (obviously), send me a link to the post and i'll +1 it

First donation! Thank you!

Yeah, will definitely make that more visible.

Not sure about the situation on other forums. I've made couple of post on Reddit, but they didn't get much attention. I'll give the Blizzard forums a shot, thanks for the tip!

On October 01 2011 06:34 kusu wrote:
Yeah drop.sc is the best replay sharing site. I seriously wouldn't mind a few commercials here and there just to keep the site alive. And as roxy said, encourage people to donate.

Also i've noticed not much peolpe know about drop.sc. Spread the word more!

<3u

Thanks!

The site does have ads.. are you not getting them? Are you running an adblocker perhaps?

<3u2

On October 01 2011 06:37 TheOne85 wrote:
Great site. Posting here to show my appreciation for your work.

Thank you! Keep on dropping!

On October 01 2011 06:48 eteran wrote:

Show nested quote +

I thought these were good ideas as well, but went thro the both options and here's what happened:

I've already migrated the servers once (from Amazon EC2 to Linode) because the supposedly cheap Amazon couldn't handle the load ( http://drop.sc/news/9 ). While the current servers provide more than what the average load requires.. I'm happy to know that it has also handled a couple of bigger spikes that have happened. Older users probably remember the stability issues the site was having when it was hosted on Amazon.. laggy, unresponsive and down quite often. Fortunately that all is history after migrating to Linode.

I've had been really happy with Linode, so I decided to contact them asking for free hosting in exchange for promoting them on the website. They declined telling they don't do such arrangements.

PS. What is the forum etiquette for answering back to multiple posts? Is it appropriate to do it like this in one post?