Sastrecillo
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2003
- Messages
- 180
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The problem with TOAScrolls.com has never been with bandwidth -- we have plenty of that. The problem has been with database usage. We have a real business, providing dynamic websites to real estate companies and small governments and because they pay the bills, they get the priority. We have no problems paying a little more for a little more database usage, but we're not willing to continuing shelling out hundreds a month in database fees based off a free site.
The popularity of this site has been tremendous. We want to continue by providing even more walk-throughs, quest details and such. To continue at this point, however, we are calling out to our users to help us in off-setting the costs associated with running such a large and database driven site. It was not something we wanted to do originally, but it makes good sense. We don't want to show a bunch of banner ads or pop-ups, (they don't pay the bills anyway), but we also don't want to shut down this site. We are always adding new areas to TOAScrolls.com and we realize becoming a pay-site means we'll need to add even more -- we're up to the challenge, and hope you'll join us for it!
To that end, we have created a subscription based website. Because we don't want to rip-off users, we have set the subscription fee to a very low and respectable $2.00 per year. This fee will allow you to view up to 500 pages per day (we limit this to prevent users from sharing their passwords with others). If you do the math, that's over 182,000 pageviews for you a year -- all for two bucks! We feel this is the best price to not only provide our services, but to provide an extremely good deal to our users.
Because we're not in this for the money, we also allow free usage of the site. Non-paying members will be given the ability to view up to 15 pages a day. This will allow you to come to the site and quickly look up some specific information without the need to worry about paying.
We're not looking to get rich off this site -- heck, we're not even looking to pay for dinner -- but we are looking to pay for the hosting bills. If you feel that $2.00 for a whole year's access isn't too much, please support this site by subscribing today! We accept PayPal only (please don't write asking other payment methods -- it's just too much to process payments for $2.00 from any other source than PayPal).
$2.00 too much?

The problem with TOAScrolls.com has never been with bandwidth -- we have plenty of that. The problem has been with database usage. We have a real business, providing dynamic websites to real estate companies and small governments and because they pay the bills, they get the priority. We have no problems paying a little more for a little more database usage, but we're not willing to continuing shelling out hundreds a month in database fees based off a free site.
The popularity of this site has been tremendous. We want to continue by providing even more walk-throughs, quest details and such. To continue at this point, however, we are calling out to our users to help us in off-setting the costs associated with running such a large and database driven site. It was not something we wanted to do originally, but it makes good sense. We don't want to show a bunch of banner ads or pop-ups, (they don't pay the bills anyway), but we also don't want to shut down this site. We are always adding new areas to TOAScrolls.com and we realize becoming a pay-site means we'll need to add even more -- we're up to the challenge, and hope you'll join us for it!
To that end, we have created a subscription based website. Because we don't want to rip-off users, we have set the subscription fee to a very low and respectable $2.00 per year. This fee will allow you to view up to 500 pages per day (we limit this to prevent users from sharing their passwords with others). If you do the math, that's over 182,000 pageviews for you a year -- all for two bucks! We feel this is the best price to not only provide our services, but to provide an extremely good deal to our users.
Because we're not in this for the money, we also allow free usage of the site. Non-paying members will be given the ability to view up to 15 pages a day. This will allow you to come to the site and quickly look up some specific information without the need to worry about paying.
We're not looking to get rich off this site -- heck, we're not even looking to pay for dinner -- but we are looking to pay for the hosting bills. If you feel that $2.00 for a whole year's access isn't too much, please support this site by subscribing today! We accept PayPal only (please don't write asking other payment methods -- it's just too much to process payments for $2.00 from any other source than PayPal).
$2.00 too much?
