BMEWS
 

Space limitations

 
 


Posted by Drew458    United States   on 03/20/2010 at 12:13 PM   
 
  1. wink

    A dollar a day? Hmmm…

    My blog costs $60/yr for hosting, something like $15/yr for domain renewal. But I don’t get much traffic. If I used the bandwidth that BMEWS uses, or even the storage space…

    Nice to know approximate costs if I ever start putting some real effort into my own blog.

    As for PayPal, don’t get me started.  shit

    But now I feel bad. I haven’t donated in a long time. Last time I donated was when Mr. Christian was running BMEWS.  Even then, PayPal sucked. I think I used the Amazon Honor System, which must be defunct because the link doesn’t, well, link.

    Posted by Christopher    United States   03/20/2010  at  06:51 PM  

  2. get a PO box at a drop location, they are cheap enough. Mine costs $10 a year.

    Posted by Jeremy    United States   03/21/2010  at  11:21 AM  

  3. Nah, from the donations that we do get, almost all come in through PayPal. It’s only been once or thrice that I’ve been asked for the old home address.

    I know I pay a bit more than average for the 1.5GB of space and 60GB of monthly data transfer, but we’re using most of it. And Hosting Matters is 100% reliable. Upgrading to 2.5GB and 100GB of bandwidth costs another $10/mo. Anything more than that, and it’s time to rent your own server, which goes for $140+/mo. Is this where I put in my rant about web crawlers and spiders? Bastard things eat bandwidth like mad. Hate ‘em.

    I solved the space problem by killing a whole swarm of log files. Like I need monthly, daily, hourly usage numbers for 6 years, nations visiting stats, and all that jass. SNIP! And I got back half a gig.

    Still, one of these days I am going to cull several years of old posts. Even with all the trimming I’ve done, this blog still goes back through most of 2004. Too much.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   03/21/2010  at  04:35 PM  

  4. I will talk to my hubby - shoulda done a donation last year when the bucks were coming in (and should have done a lot more - or I wouldn’t be in the outer circle of hell right now over my Mom’s estate) - will send a donation (alas, I will go PEM and ask for the addy as we do not do PayPal anymore) - after I get my trust fund pennies. I promise - I am here everyday I should have left a tip at the door as I went out many, many times.

    I have finally gotten most of what I wanted from the estate - and lots that I did not know existed - it is going to kill me but I must sort through each and every box (two trips, garage - no longer usable for a car). And pictures - well I think that will be a hard drive of their own. I have reached the point that what is left (after at least one more trip) - will be going to the auction house. Can’t take it in right now don’t have the $ to do anything.

    Posted by wardmama4    United States   03/22/2010  at  09:38 AM  

  5. But no, I won’t give out my home address to just anyone.

    Hey Drew. Give my address out. I’ll take the donations!

    (Mr. Burns rubs his hands together and says ‘Excellent’)

    Posted by Christopher    United States   03/22/2010  at  12:19 PM  

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.

Next entry: AN OBSTACLE TO BROADBAND .... yeah, might be but the scene is lots prettier.

Previous entry: WEEKEND WOMAN ....

<< BMEWS Main Page >>