I remember someone saying that the bandwidth costs are ~£25k a year. Whether there is any truth in that or not I have no idea but would be doubtful.
This forum could run on one web server, costing much less than £200 a month, assuming 10TB of bandwidth p/m. If they allowed search engines to crawl the amazing content here, floods of people would find Overclockers.co.uk (searching Google for overclocking questions, hardware questions, even motor questions!)The forums can't cost that much to run surely. Perhaps £500/month but in the grand scheme of things, £6000 a year isn't going to hurt them too heavily.
I used to point people to OcUK when i worked for the purple shirts
I remember someone saying that the bandwidth costs are ~£25k a year. Whether there is any truth in that or not I have no idea but would be doubtful.
it could be hosted on a dedicated dual xeon jobby i reckon
with a 10mb pipe
or they could use one of those UnLiMiTeD bAnDwIdTh AnD uNlImItEd SpAcE fOr OnLy $10/month!
Spie has said on many past occasions that the forums amount to a net loss for the company.
I don't know whether it does or doesn't cost £25k p/a but I'm not sure I see the point in lying about it. If it costs £10 and a Mars bar then why not say so?
They most bring in some profit, what about the "hi there threads" from gibbo of offers on.
I joined this forum so ask about certain hardware parts and it influenced my being them.
That's a ridiculous thing to say, that's like saying the floor space in a shop is loss, which of course it is, but it facilitates purchases.
They most bring in some profit, what about the "hi there threads" from gibbo of offers on.
I joined this forum so ask about certain hardware parts and it influenced my being them.