DOKI MADE ME GIVE $1000 TO ANIMEMUSICVIDEOS.ORG!!dokidoki wrote:I donated $1001 last time (Feb 2009) to ensure this happened.Phade wrote:Secondly, I will also personally match the largest single cash donation up to $1000; if you give $1000, I will give $1000.
Excuse me, but I can only see Phade trying to reply to the questions raised. H is going to spend lots of his money as well. And I guess he will have no issue with getting the price of the purchased goods after we get them (if not, he can correct me) - but getting them beforehand is kinda tough.Xophilarus wrote:I found it annoying before, but now it is flat out frustrating because we are now being asked to give donations, and I see you are trying to avoid questions about it here as well.
I've stated this before, it's not hard to spec and price out a server. You can literally go to a website right now, add components to your cart and see how much it would cost including warranty. Additionally you can see how much rack space would cost, they have prices listed for this purpose. Telling the community what they're paying for and why that specific setup goes a long way.Nya-chan Production wrote:Excuse me, but I can only see Phade trying to reply to the questions raised. H is going to spend lots of his money as well. And I guess he will have no issue with getting the price of the purchased goods after we get them (if not, he can correct me) - but getting them beforehand is kinda tough.Xophilarus wrote:I found it annoying before, but now it is flat out frustrating because we are now being asked to give donations, and I see you are trying to avoid questions about it here as well.
And honestly, if we overshoot the price, it's always better, because it can be left for stuff like backup drive when one of them dies. In this I believe Phade that there are no side streams to his pocket (I think it's actually the other way around and he still has to finance it by himself even with the donations).
Niotex wrote:If you're wanting to do this and take the redesign on, I think it's only fair to be completely transparent. On both the hardware and the software platform side of things, as even a new low end server would be a huge leap in system resources. In short, what are you planning that would warrant a relatively speaking high end rack?
AMVs will probably die out after people stop making anime. So as long as there is anime, there will be AMVs.Xophilarus wrote:I have only been on the site for a few years, and I would have no problem contributing... IF, as Koop said, there were also plans to update and "fix" the org. I do not feel comfortable in putting my money into something that will likely just keep dying anyways. Earlier this week I read GloryQuestor's post concerning the subject, and honestly, it all just sounded kind of like BS and like he was trying to avoid the issue. He claims there is a plan to update the org, but, at the same time, apparently the actual community is not important enough to inform of what the plan is. I found it annoying before, but now it is flat out frustrating because we are now being asked to give donations, and I see you are trying to avoid questions about it here as well. Again, I don't want this site to go "poof". I want to see it get better. I, however, am not willing to put money into supporting if things stay the way they are on the org because that will make it die out regardless, which means my money will have ultimately been wasted.
I am always open to suggestions on what people think should be done. Longevity is currently the goal with a physical server. We shouldn't buy for the now; we should buy for the future. I'd like to get something that we can put in place and not have to touch for many, many years no matter what we do with it. We have done this before (2009) and now doing it again now at half the cost seems extremely reasonable to me. I looked at several sites for servers including getting servers through business discounts at Dell and HP. Derobert suggested this server since he has purchased from there before and had a really good experience:Niotex wrote:I've stated this before, it's not hard to spec and price out a server. You can literally go to a website right now, add components to your cart and see how much it would cost including warranty. Additionally you can see how much rack space would cost, they have prices listed for this purpose. Telling the community what they're paying for and why that specific setup goes a long way.
And as asked before and promptly ignored, which is what Xophilarus could reffer to.Niotex wrote:If you're wanting to do this and take the redesign on, I think it's only fair to be completely transparent. On both the hardware and the software platform side of things, as even a new low end server would be a huge leap in system resources. In short, what are you planning that would warrant a relatively speaking high end rack?
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