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Photo Hosting
Yes, we are working that out now. I know that I've been promising it for a while, but we wanted to do some new server upgrades that will coincide with our new AV site and cp upgrade rollout later this month or early next.
I'm never going to authorize direct image and file uploading to the db running this forum. That's a great convenience feature, but a bad move from a growth and speed standpoint. I know of one forum right now that is about to come unglued from this effect and another that will follow it shortly after. There is a much better solution, albeit it will require more understanding from it's users (ftp and image linking), and this is the solution that we're going to introduce here shortly for users who want to be able to post their images anywhere on the net, not only this forum. That's another big issue. The advantage that we have is that we already own the servers that run this system. We have bandwidth and storage redundancy to the extreme. However, I also understand how a forum script accesses its db, and this is where the large binary files in the tables lead to trouble over time ... with multiple simultaneous requests going on at peak usage. ------------------- I have another issue which needs your input ... ------------------- I've been asked by certain makers, dealers and suppliers to allow them to have their own personal forums on our system, which link from their sites and would offer them a meeting place for their customer base. To this point, we have not allowed this to become the rule. The personal boards that we have now were setup in the beginning and will always be here as long as these same individuals want to maintain them. This offer was made in the beginning to all 15 CKD Founding Members. This is the CKD's way of rewarding these few people for being with us from the start, risking their reputations to help us anchor this community when it was new and unthrottled. That was 3 years ago. I am considering allowing this on a paid basis, along with additional banner and display advertising on the 2-3 sites which anchor this system. I think it's important to create a revenue source for the CKD system in general, as this will fund our budget for future growth and expansion of the collective sites. This money will become necessary to finance any position battles that we may want to begin waging, on the merits of the next update/release. This can also have a very positive effect for those of us who use the web (and the CKD) as a primary marketing tool. What are your thoughts on this? Alex __________________ Alex Whetsell [======]~~~~~~~> Atlantavirtual.com Atlanta NOC |
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Just an idea
Alex,
I would like to see a library that would contain all knife making information available in the form of books, video/CD and perhaps where one might purchase them. Seems that when new ones are released then they are only found by accident. I have made knives for many years but still like to learn from and see what and how other makers are working. Best Regards, R. Ramsey |
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Re: Photo Hosting
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RE: Photo hosting Offer a low-cost/easy storage opportunity and you'll have ALL the forumites signing up. Ours and them... Coop |
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Seems reasonalbe, however similar sites on other forums either become groupie hang-outs where you had better love that maker or else. Either that or it becomes a bashing site (both directions love it or hate it). Hope fully the more mature attitude here at CKD will limit that.
__________________ Jerry Oksman ~ Cogito Cogito Ergo Cogito Sum ~ |
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I wouldn't mind getting to see 2 new things on the site.
One would be a new forum to discuss shows, more particularly upcoming shows. I've noticed that questions about shows get spread all over from the Folder area to General to the Community. An example would be that there is a show coming up in Atlanta I believe in June and this will be my first to visit, so I want to ask who will be there so I can pay my respects, but I don't know where to post it. Also it would be possible for a show sponsor to get on and give details and advertise to us when and where. Num two would be something I don't no if too many people would care about, but on a the listing for a thread in a forum, maybe under the thread starters name, have the date the thread was started. You know when some one posts a reply the thread is bumped to the top of the forum list. Sometimes I may not be interested in reading much more about and sometimes the subjects don't give much detail, so I don't know if it's old or new one that I haven't read. Just my 2-pennies, Thanks __________________ Freedom needs a soldier A nameless faceless one A young girl's lover A baby's father Some mother's son Last edited by mikec; 01-22-2003 at 03:01 PM. |
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Just a thought...
but I've seen a lot of questions lately regarding the creation, updating, and maintenance of websites. Could there be a forum devoted to helping people solve their website problems? Maybe that belongs in the Computer Center forum, but if not, I'll volunteer to help moderate that forum.
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How about a website/computer forum sub forum like the sheath gallery is to the sheath forum???
Chuck __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. |
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Re: Photo Hosting
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BTW, did you know that vBulletin 3.0 is in the piblic beta release. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php It's the biggest upgrade/release there has been to the forum software for a very long time and boasts many new features, including an excellent archiveing system. It will be released as a "final" package sometime over the next couple of months. I dont know if you plan 9on "themeing" the CKD forums, but if so, it's probably worth factoring in this new release. Cheers. Last edited by Martyn; 01-23-2003 at 06:09 AM. |
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Martyn,
I agree with what you're saying, totally. I like the photo posting software, too. I'm not actually sure that it's the best solution for my vision of the future, though. I really do like the integration of the photos with the CMS system running your boards. It looks very nice and very professional. You did a nice job of modifying that skin. This forum, in its current state, does around 20GB per month in data transfer. The server that it's on now has dual 9's, so storage for the primary forum db is not a factor at this time. I'm moving more in the direction of providing individual user photo posting accounts which will be forum server independent. In this way, I can provide a nice suite of user tools, and e-mail address or two for the end user, the ability to have a few site pages if needed and to better provision the load around my network to maintain even resource usage. I think the best long term decision is to offer more expandability, and or/upgradability, both for the network and the end user. We'll present some ideas here very soon that I think will serve us all in the immediate, and the long term future. I'm lucky in a sense in that we've been at this for a while now, building to this point in development. What we have now is a get-me-by solution, so to speak. This has been buying us time for development of the next package rollout. I wish I had more time to devote to getting it done quickly, but time is a hard thing to come by any more ... we're on it though. Alex __________________ Alex Whetsell [======]~~~~~~~> Atlantavirtual.com Atlanta NOC |
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