Poll for Bozza - Would you contribute to NSC

[Gazwag]

Sorry should have communicated something about this.

I turned it off at the request of the hosts to see what difference it makes to our server usage.

This has come after the hosts made a polite request that our business was not welcome in it's current form - mainly due to the heavy load around the time of the Falmer decision.

The alternative is a dedicated server and the price quoted (although I have not shopped around) was about £100 a month. Somewhat more than the £25 or so a month that NSC costs me currently. As you can probably guess, I'm not keen to pay out £100 a month if I can help it.

Searching off again, I am afraid, so we can monitor the performance difference.

My suggestion on the thread which the above was posted on was that if 100 of us contributed £1 a month ie £12 a year then NSC could have its dedicated server are sort out the bandwidth problems which occur sometime.

I personally was surprised that the cost of NSC falls onto just one person.

I assume if there is enough support then Bozza could look into it.

Simple question YES or NO, I'll start

Over to you Bozza!

 

[BensGrandad]

Most definitely I would when do you want the money?

 

[Strike]

I will pay as well.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

yeh i would- £1 a month is nothing for a better service

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Me too, if that's what it takes

 

[Lush]

Of course.

 

[Beach Hut]

Most definitely and we've been here before.

Perhaps Bozza could give us details of an account number and we can the all set up direct debits ?

 

[Trigger]

Yep, but only £7 first year from me coz Bozza owes me a fiver, tight git.

 

[beorhthelm]

to encourage donations, why not throw in an @northstandchat.com service? Not sure if that would be counter productive, but a dedicated server would probably be well under utilised, and people would be more happy to subscribe to an email service than chip in for a message board.

 

[nail-Z]

Crikey. It's been months since this discussion was done to death. Bozza - don't forget to name those that choose 'No' and then we can do the 'I thought Polls were anonymous' discussion as well.

 

[dougdeep]

I'll pay willingly, let's make N.S.C. the best messageboard on the net.

 

[bhaexpress]

I've always been in favour of making a contribution to NSC as I can't see why Bozza should be expected to constantly pay out of his own pocket. I mean, he doesn't even post as often as many.

Apart from anything else it will soon be one of the few ways I have of staying in touch with all things Albion. This applies to more than a few regular posters on NSC.

 

[elbowpatches]

I'll pay willingly, let's make N.S.C. the best messageboard on the net.

It already is the best on the net!!

 

[Citrus]

Voted NO, but have a job now, so YES!

 

[ManxSeagull]

I would glady pay £1 per month.

I know personally how much NSC costs to host when I got caught out with over useage of bandwidth to the sum of £500 a few years ago.

Bozza kindly offered to take over when I got disenchanted with the costs.

We must keep NSC alive.

 

[pasty]

Yes

 

[Zebedee]

More than happy to make a contribution of up to £5 a month. Why not set up an account Bozza in order that we can make payments via a direct debit? There is no reason why all the costs of running NSC should fall to one person.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Well worth paying for, I'd cough up no prob.

Why not put a Pay Pal (or similar) contribute button on the site somewhere so we can just make an occasional donation by credit card when there are bills to be paid?

I don't really like the idea of a compulsory payment, because we would lose a lot of the occasional visitors from other clubs etc.

 

[Incredigull]

Yep, but only £7 first year from me coz Bozza owes me a fiver, tight git.

Well off tight git

 

[Turkey]

Of course I would although there's no point spending money which need not be spent. If the current hosts don't want NSC then Bozza can take his "business" elsewhere. Although, as I understand it, the current hosts have always been pretty good to us.