Have anyone else noted how slow sciforums is nowdays? Or is it "my" computer? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What about that database problem that keeps poping up almost everyday!? Maybe it would be a good idea to create another completely different site, in another completely different server just for archiving messages that are more than one year old? Than, with less messages in this server we could have a much better chance to not run into slow sciforums and database problems. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What da ya think?
well if someone with a permanent broadband connection has a few gig free on their computer then go ahead
And as soon as that persons hard drive crashes, we're all fucked. Plus he/she would loose bandwidth... a lot of bandwidth.
What if we use all our hard drives! Well, ok... maybe not. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 1) How much would it be anyways? Aren't there sites that store information from hard drives? Like... backup sites! 2) Besides, we could raise the money by donation instead of paying a fee. Like simtropolis has been doing for quite some time! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! https://www.paypal.com/xclick/busin...¬ify_url=http://www.datpham.com/paypal.cfm 3) We could also use gmail accounts. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Some of us still have some. I have about 4 of them that I could give to sciforums! http://ilia.ws/archives/15_Gmail_as_an_online_backup_system.html It requires a little bit of programming tough. We could ask help for the computer science folks!
but the bandwidth on those sites which offer free storage is often very low, but if we can all chip in a bit, or we can get some good advertising funds, then im sure we gould pay for another connction, and use someones spare computer
im sitting at about $300 spare at the moment, but i need to upgrade my POS computer, ill donate if i have some left over
I'd pay some money for it. I would request a short signature and a bigger avatar in return though Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I, unfortunately, wouldn't be able to donate any money (I'm poor! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!), but I really like this idea.
I'm all up for this idea, but vslayer's chipping in for me. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
there will be no hard feeling as long as there is no hard cash Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I mentioned something previously to Porfiry many years back, simply I suggested when he was in a rut about keep this forum up and running to get the archive and put it onto CD (generate an ISO), and basically allow people to donate a little to contribute to Sciforums.com running in exchange for a copy of the whole archived DB. However as you can tell that didn't happen, I guess the reason ws probably due to potential legal technicalities like people complaining about donating to get access to a copy of the DB thats got all the discussions they've had over their time at Sciforums.com
