Fabio Prado -> (7/8/2002 12:51:01 AM)
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Thank you guys for your suggestions, but I don't think it would be practical in my case. First, because I want my Wargame website to remain a free one. Second, because even if I did want to make money out of it the basic conditions aren't there. Why? Because I have a limited number of visits and a humungous download volume, due to the size of the downloaded files. So, the eventual interest of someone in paying for ads there is very limited. And then there is the navigational burden to the visitors that many ads and pop-up windows represent. Personally I hate it, and would not inflict that on anyone. I upgraded my hosting program recently, to get more disk space usage and more bandwidth (15,000 MB monthly). However, that was not enough, and even if I adopted the "super king size option", I still would be in trouble, because the bandwidth usage limit is 30,000 MB monthly, and I reached 43,670.89 MB in a month, so it wouldn't solve my problem anyway. I am trying to find some other web sites to help with those bigger downloads, but, as painful as it is, I will have to stop being a "download" site. Thank you from my heart for your kindness at the point of willing to give me money, but this is not a practical way of managing a web site. Either it supports itself, or it is supported by someone. To support itself, a very large and consistent number of visitors is necessary, and even this way it is not guaranteed to survive. If it is to be supported by someone, I prefer to do it by paying from my own pocket (even if my last monthly invoice was over US$ 300.00), bacause if I accepted any money from other people, I would have an obligation of justify where this money were going, and make all the finance demonstrations public, etc., and I think it's easy to understand it would complicate things beyond what it is acceptable for the type of web site I built in the first place. Fab
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