Upgrading server to super duper dedicated, need opinions

Alright so obviously it's been frustrating with the site down so much after hitting the headlines, and it's bound to happen again with the awesomeness that is our community. I've been talking to my hosting and explained the situation.. wasn't too hard to see :)
The traffic was way way too insane, so I asked if I switched to a dedicated server would that help... and pretty much just laughed at the situation saying that wouldn't even solve the problem, need a higher grade dedicated.

So.. I'm going to be placing up adsense at the top (no gold ads), if you don't like it / hate it just filter it out and we'll see how that goes. This weekend was insanely stressful and this is an easy remedy to the situation. If you have any gripes/complaints let me know :P I'm all ears. I just want to be as open with the community as possible :)

as far as im concerned ads do not detract at all. you gotta do what you gotta do to keep this thing going. heck id probably still show up even if there was 4 inches of ads on all sides. also imho dont stress out too much in the tough times its not like we're gonna die if we cant view the forum(at least dont think we will) so take 'er easy i think we all understand.

rofl I'm with bot on this one

Finally a worthwhile reason to play with Adblock and determine if it can be disabled on specific sites...

And yes, it can, but there are no ads yet.

I think dual-boxing.com is an amazing resource that has never cost me a cent. I will willingly endure advertising in exchange for continued access to this site.

What kinda cost would you be looking at to upgrade if you didn't go with the ads? I'm more curious than anything, they've never phased me that much.

will your hosting company take gold as payment?

Pop-ups or sliding in Ads? Pain.
Animated Ads? Bearable.
If you can make sure it doesn't randomly include gold sellers and the like (which we got on our guild forum once) -- whatever works is fine with me.

Thanks for your effort.

Personally, my opinion is the same as it was a year ago, charge subscription fees to dedicated members to access the forums. Sure it might stop a few people from coming in, but anyone who really wants to box will stay subscribed.



Yes, I am an asshole, but that is my opinion.

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Originally Posted by 'Zseth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=134131#post13 4131

Personally, my opinion is the same as it was a year ago, charge subscription fees to dedicated members to access the forums. Sure it might stop a few people from coming in, but anyone who really wants to box will stay subscribed.



Yes, I am an asshole, but that is my opinion.

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I gotta say I'm strongly against what you suggested. And no you aren't asshole for expressing your view :)

Ok, how much money are you spending for hosting now? I'm guessing you have a shared server account.

What was your max concurrent connections over the weekend? Were you throttled by the hoster or did the ram/cpu max out?

webhostingtalk.com is the forum you should be visiting now for hosting information, make an account and look under dedicated server offers in the forums.

Expect to pay approximately $100-$200 for decent dedicated servers.

I'm not familiar with Burning Board, but you should do a database export to prepare for the move (if you already haven't done so).

Oh, I forgot to add that you're going to have a lot more traffic in the next few days because another journalist is going to publish an article. :whistling: