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Sponsorship 22-Oct-2003 At 9:33:31 AM Mike

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On 21/10/2003 Rupert wrote:
>Mike - what about asking your top 50 or 100 forum users to kick in 10 bucks

I'd rather not if I don't have to. At present Steve of RH is paying enough of Chockstone's hosting fees that work have stopped hassling me about the expense of the site. So for now at least, the issue is resolved. Just please keep buying your gear from Steve, so he can justify paying Chockstone's bills! :-)

If I ever got employment elsewhere I think and had to move Chockstone to another hosting company it would probably need to be more self funding.

When I checked last week Chocktone was running at 4272 hits per day. I haven't been game to ask how many gigs the monthly outgoing traffic is up to now, but yeah, I'd imagine it's the video downloads that cause the most expense, so if they tell me it's getting out of hand (which hasn't happened yet), I could maybe restrict video downloaded to forum membership or something.

In anycase I'd certainly try to pick up another sponser before I considered extracting money from the general public.