Official how to keep AO alive thread

[fire1811]

just put a paypal button on AO and i would have no problem donating

[Magaman]

Guys,

I am guestimating that overall it costs about 1000 bucks a month to run this site. I agree that a sign up fee is a waist of time and will kill AO off. I do think that donations are a good idea with bonus stuff for doing so like sigs and avatars. It may make sense to charge a yearly membership fee to list stuff in the classifieds.

AGD

I say,

-$10.00/month for anyone that wants to post in the Dealers Forum... (Include sigs and posting in all other merchant/sales forums)
-$Donations of $1.00/month you can have your sigs...
-$Donations of $2.00/month or more, you can also sell in the general sales forums (Not Dealers)...

That should be very reasonable...

[68magOwner]

id give a lil ~$5 donation, got to remember, paintballers=poor

[Thordic]

I talked to John (Paintcheck) about how much it would cost to keep AO up.

If we disabled image hosting, it would be easily feasible to keep the site up with member contributions.

[Target Practice]

I talked to John (Paintcheck) about how much it would cost to keep AO up.

If we disabled image hosting, it would be easily feasible to keep the site up with member contributions.

I'd be more than happy to contribute.

[felony]

Guys,

I am guestimating that overall it costs about 1000 bucks a month to run this site. I agree that a sign up fee is a waist of time and will kill AO off. I do think that donations are a good idea with bonus stuff for doing so like sigs and avatars. It may make sense to charge a yearly membership fee to list stuff in the classifieds.

AGD

holy shenanigans..

absoulute craziness

just wanna say thanks TK before this all gets shut down.. hahha

jk

dan

[jayloo]

TK, I have been round and round with the banner / donate thing. It is a tough deal. No one wants to even pay tiny advertising fees $5 or $10 a month. No offense but out of all the folks that say they will donate less than 10% really will.

The key is to fund AO by a different source. Coming out of the AGD bucket on $ was the best solution. If you have to rely on banners/donations and /or membership fees AO will die a slow death.

This site is expensive to host. Its just not hardware and then slap vbullitin on it. Someone has to be paid to maintain the server(s) daily checking for security, capacity and the like.

TK, I offer this for the sake of AO. I have several servers that could accomodate the entire AO site and database(s). Yes, including bandwidth too. I offer this at no charge. There is no catch. All of my servers are paid for through a different non-paintball related business that I own.

You could drop the membership fee thing and the pay to post in classifides thing and just let everyone post like normal. 0 change. Whoever owns it still will, Ill only host it.

If interested pm/email me. I can help if it is needed. If not point me toward the donate button ...I got some cash in paypal.

Jason

[Lohman446]

I never considered it being $1000 a month - while I am willing to help, and Im sure others are - that requires 20 people willign to give $50 a month - I'm in if you find the other 19.... but I forsee that being hard

[BD_Paintball]

we might have a solution. now we just have to have tom see this
:) . i would hate to see this site go down b/c it is a great environment.

[felony]

TK, I have been round and round with the banner / donate thing. It is a tough deal. No one wants to even pay tiny advertising fees $5 or $10 a month. No offense but out of all the folks that say they will donate less than 10% really will.

The key is to fund AO by a different source. Coming out of the AGD bucket on $ was the best solution. If you have to rely on banners/donations and /or membership fees AO will die a slow death.

This site is expensive to host. Its just not hardware and then slap vbullitin on it. Someone has to be paid to maintain the server(s) daily checking for security, capacity and the like.

TK, I offer this for the sake of AO. I have several servers that could accomodate the entire AO site and database(s). Yes, including bandwidth too. I offer this at no charge. There is no catch. All of my servers are paid for through a different non-paintball related business that I own.

You could drop the membership fee thing and the pay to post in classifides thing and just let everyone post like normal. 0 change. Whoever owns it still will, Ill only host it.

If interested pm/email me. I can help if it is needed. If not point me toward the donate button ...I got some cash in paypal.

Jason

if this does go through, i still support a AO supportor tag or something to help ya out. Even if that means 1% of the total costs. more of a thank you

dan

[Glickman]

supporter button sounds cool

ill still end up donating if we go on jay's server


youll probably call it retarted, but what if like 5 people put their "donations"
together, and bought a banner?

the moneys still going to the same place, and there would be a banner saying:

CHUFF CHUFF!


or whatever






also, waht about a fee of like $30 to sticky a classifieds for 3 days?

thought that was a decent idea on pbnation's part

[Chronobreak]

lol if ao goes down you guys are welcome on the pbn/agd forum i will pwn you


disabling hosting as in we cant post pics..only links? or allowing attachments to be mad e directly to AO?

if its the latter ide say go for it..thers TONS of free hopsting sites ont eh net FIND ONE :coughjayloo

ide happily donate and yes im a poor college baller

anyone remember when we offered to donate to ao like 3 months ago and tom erfused...well gues he took off and left the check...

w/e happens im sure it will work out for the better

[NewMagMan21]

OK guys heres what I think we should do ( this may have been said already) I gotta couple Ideas

Theres like 19000 people posting(or sitting around, watching ect.) right
Hold monthly raffles for donated, purchased, sponsered Items and charge 1 dollar per ticket think if less than a 19th of people buy in at a time we'd have the money to run for like a month.

Or Like someone said have a donation button that is on the side of the screen.
It could be used for money and Items

Or why not do what other sites do: sell space for other paintball adds. It may take away from the whole AGD site but if it keeps the site going so be it. Just stay away from about a million pop ups every screen... that sux.

Hope these might help but tell me if they've been said before. MORE IDEAS COMING SOON

[Thunder Bunny]

I think there should be a Donate Button, and when you do you get a little icon next to your name saying that you did.

Most boards I'm on have some sort of perk for donating, like pic hosting, edit buttons, avatars, etc. Donations are $20 for a year.

So, you don't have to pay, but you get bonus features if you do.

[Kevmag]

Guys,

I am guestimating that overall it costs about 1000 bucks a month to run this site. I agree that a sign up fee is a waist of time and will kill AO off. I do think that donations are a good idea with bonus stuff for doing so like sigs and avatars. It may make sense to charge a yearly membership fee to list stuff in the classifieds.

AGD

Is the new owner going to keep making products and supporting existing owners? $1000/mo is nothing. What is the cost of hiring another tech support person? Way more than that... I would keep it up just for the technical support aspect.