Admin:
Idk what your situation is with your servers, but if you're renting them. I'd like to mine. I'm a college student, so I don't have a lot of money, but I did get a server for pretty cheap from my work before it closed down, and I don't have the services form my IP to host anything.
I love this site, and I've been coming here for the past 4-5 years to keep from spiraling into depression. I can't offer money I don't have, but I want to contribute something. PM me or reply to this comment if this can help you.
gabinated, please sticky this in hopes a mod or addy sees it, idk how to contact him otherwise.
sorry if I sounded like a douche down there. The 2x xeon processors are OK, but only 2GB of RAM will NOT cut it. Try 256GB or something. But the deal is you gotta connect the server to the internet backbone, for which you need to be an ISP or at least pay to have the connection made, which is expensive as hell and you gotta rent it and **** .
Admin uses cloud storage from a Netherlands company. That means they have hoardes of rack-mount computers probably with SSD hard disks and unbelievable amounts of RAM. A Dell personal computer with Windos 7 will not do anything. First of all because admin can't simply send the hosting company a desktop PC and ask them to add it to his collection. Second because the specs on that system are way too tiny (yes, if you had like 10,000 of them in a server farm with some super-fast controllers at the front to divvy up cloud processing, then it might work).
But it was a nice thought.
Lastly, admin's claims of "I have no money, help me" are RIDICULOUS. FunnyJunk has been bought and sold more times than a ****** . I think currently there is a team of "admin"s who cater to the different time zones. Could you really imagine being on this site 24 hours a day? I don't think so. He has claimed costs of 12,000/month, which is ridonculous. I rent a sever with 2TB HD space, quad-processor @2GHz each (8GHz in total) and unlimited ******* bandwidth for.... €150/mo. Even if you buy 10 of those ******* , you're at €1500/mo, but you probably get some kind of discount.
Since then admin seems to have moved to Amazon Web Services cloud hosting, which is "pay for what you use". I dunno. The site has loads of traffic, but that should be FREE if you own/fully rent the servers. You only need enough power to serve up so many requests per second, which means you gotta have mega cache and **** , but it seems to be no problem.
There are **** tons of advertisements, **** tons of traffic, but everyone uses adblock and I'm not sure what a site with 300,000 daily visitors can expect to earn from adversiting alone. But FJ used to have no ads for logged-in users at all! I'm guessing companies buy FJ, try to get more users and a bigger community and sell to the next company. But hey, what do I know?
yes. that's why I started junny funk back in the day last time addy did this. It was going pretty well for a while, but then I recorded a full-length album and had tons of **** to do and then addy started being nice and he made feminism activist or whatever.
I've been coming to FJ for probably about 4 years now and this is easily the 7th or 8th time I've seen admin claim the site is going to be shut down if "ya'll don't stahp bein mean to meh and gibe monyz" so I highly doubt that he's going to shut it down this time or ever for that matter
admin has done this "oh **** we might lose the server' thing just a bit too often im starting to think hes lying to us will to accept proof that im wrong
i am in a conundrum right now because i don't want to give admin any money because the sight might got down and it would be a waist
but i want to because the sight might go down and i would bored.