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Well we just ran our stats and I am floored! Here are some interesting facts about BFC.
Thanks for making us the busiest knife site in the world!
With our incredible traffic we must make some changes. We are now forced to move our server to a new facility.
In the next week we will move our server to Florida Digital Network. It is a class 5 facility with multiple OC-48 connections. We will then have to buy a connection into the OC-48 pipe and purchase a number of channels. We had negotiated a special rate for our tremendous bandwidth but that is now being revoked as they had no idea we would ever get to the size we are. Neither did I.
Here is the cost breakdown.
We will buy a half rack for co-location at $350 per month.
We will have to pay a connect fee of $75 to get into the pipe.
We will have to pay $50 per channel on the connect, each channel being a 56K channel and I will be buying at least 10 channels and most likely 16.
That means things will speed up around here as well! We will be down while we move the server for about 8 hours or more. We will also upgrade our software and more so look for many changes.
As many of you know I pay the bills around here and will continue to do so. We supplement the cost of running this site by having special deals, advertising, the magazine, the store, raffles and more. I have several ideas to cut down on the number of ways we try to supplement this site, which will take effect before long, so look for those soon.
This site is truly awesome and you guys are great. I now have to take steps to insure our future and most will be transparent to you all.
Dealers who wish to take advantage of the changes we are about to implement need to contact me ASAP.
Custom knife makers will be in for a really cool surprise and if you are a custom maker you need to email me as well.
Custom makers send email to custom@bladeforums.com
You will then get a email reply when we are ready to launch
Thank you for all being a part of this incredible achievment.
You ain't seen nothing yet!
Look for exciting things to come and Stay Tuned!
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Best Regards,
Mike Turber
BladeForums Site Owner and Administrator
Do it! Do it right! Do it right NOW!
Support BladeForums! Check out the BFC Store!
www.bladeforums.com/store
Subscribe our NEW online magazine!
www.bladeforums.com/magazine
Enter our Raffle!
www.bladeforums.com/raffle
[This message has been edited by Mike Turber (edited 01-16-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Mike Turber (edited 01-21-2000).]
- Number of posts: 209,147!
- Number of registered members: 4,629!
- Over 1 Million hits every 3 days!
- Number of hits per day: 334,000!
- Number of hits per hour: 13,916!
- Number of hits per minute: 580!
- Number of hits per second: 10!
- Number of unique users per day 6,583!
- Log file size: 350 megs each 5 days!
Thanks for making us the busiest knife site in the world!
With our incredible traffic we must make some changes. We are now forced to move our server to a new facility.
In the next week we will move our server to Florida Digital Network. It is a class 5 facility with multiple OC-48 connections. We will then have to buy a connection into the OC-48 pipe and purchase a number of channels. We had negotiated a special rate for our tremendous bandwidth but that is now being revoked as they had no idea we would ever get to the size we are. Neither did I.
Here is the cost breakdown.
We will buy a half rack for co-location at $350 per month.
We will have to pay a connect fee of $75 to get into the pipe.
We will have to pay $50 per channel on the connect, each channel being a 56K channel and I will be buying at least 10 channels and most likely 16.
That means things will speed up around here as well! We will be down while we move the server for about 8 hours or more. We will also upgrade our software and more so look for many changes.
As many of you know I pay the bills around here and will continue to do so. We supplement the cost of running this site by having special deals, advertising, the magazine, the store, raffles and more. I have several ideas to cut down on the number of ways we try to supplement this site, which will take effect before long, so look for those soon.
This site is truly awesome and you guys are great. I now have to take steps to insure our future and most will be transparent to you all.
Dealers who wish to take advantage of the changes we are about to implement need to contact me ASAP.
Custom knife makers will be in for a really cool surprise and if you are a custom maker you need to email me as well.
Custom makers send email to custom@bladeforums.com
You will then get a email reply when we are ready to launch
Thank you for all being a part of this incredible achievment.
You ain't seen nothing yet!
Look for exciting things to come and Stay Tuned!
------------------
Best Regards,
Mike Turber
BladeForums Site Owner and Administrator
Do it! Do it right! Do it right NOW!
Support BladeForums! Check out the BFC Store!
www.bladeforums.com/store
Subscribe our NEW online magazine!
www.bladeforums.com/magazine
Enter our Raffle!
www.bladeforums.com/raffle
[This message has been edited by Mike Turber (edited 01-16-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Mike Turber (edited 01-21-2000).]
