Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Hi All

apologies for the downtime today (22 July 2010), but I have moved our site to a server in Germany to save on costs.

Please let me know if you experience any difficulties.
Thank you
Regards
John

All seems to be fine!

I'm very naive on all things www. How does one gain revenue from such a forum . You mentioned you needed to move it to germany to cut costs down, but how does it all work, for us out there who know nothing about this stuff. Please advise, i'll be "the intelligent one" at my next braai when i bring it up "in conversation"

Yeah, I'm also curious... I design and draw house plans for a living.... IT is not my strong point....ha ha

Hi Guys

No income is generated from the forum. We have discussed various income streams such as sponsorship, advertisements, Google ads etc., BUT I feel this will detract from the free and open nature of the forum. This should be our forum and nobody should stifle or restrict our input.

So what does it costs? Well, besides the development time undertaken by myself and the time spend by moderators on maintenance, there is a direct hosting cost. Because of the large throughput (bandwidth) requirement, this has been costing me approximately R500/month and hence, the move to the German server where it’ll be substantially less.

Hope this clears up a few things.
Cheers
John

So you've been forking out half a grand each month out your own purse so we can talk about vroom vrooms! hectic china. i feel swak now.

Thank you

Speed is still great too! Thanks John!


-F_D

U bring a load of people pleasure, thank You.

Many thanks for your efforts John!

This site has become an awesome resource for all us Patrol owners and fans, and we all owe you a huge vote of thanks!