Re: hosting looper's delight site?

["whiteoakstudios" <whiteoakstudios@supanet.com>]

Kim,
Are all these people loopers ? Obviously there are a number of hits from 
the
same person but have you any idea who these people are, (I don't expect you
to know them all personally but you know what I mean).
I often use Amazon for books & CD's do you benefit if I access their web
site through the LD site ? If so , I'll go that route in future.

Gareth


Looper's Delight
> by itself, per month, is about 400,000 page views, 700,000 file requests
> (hits), 100,000 user sessions, 9GB of bandwidth, and around 1GB of disk
> space. Plus a fair amount of CPU in handling the search engine, archiving
> and indexing the list, ad serving, mailing list, web server, dns, etc. 
>The
> mailing list might have to send anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 mails a
> day. It gets much bigger when you add in the rest of my internet
activities
> and sites that I host, those monthly totals are about 1 million page
views,
> 9 million hits/files, 40GB bandwidth, and about 6GB of disk space. As it
> happens, all of these sites are growing like weeds,

>
> All this is not cheap, but there is no danger of it going offline. Income
> from the sites pays about half of it, and the rest is affordable for me.
> However, I would prefer to see LD be self-sufficient. In other words, it
> should not be freeloading off of me or you or anybody else to exist, it
> should pay it's own way. For this, I hope the people who use the site and
> enjoy the list can help out. That can be through buying Looper's Delight
> cd's, or using the affiliate links I have on the LD site when you can to
> buy gear (zzounds, sonic foundry, amazon), or making a donation through
the
> donation links I've got set up on the site, or buying a t-shirt when we
get
> around to that. And any of you who have something to advertise, LD is a
> fine place to do it and I'm happy to make some reasonable deal to make it
> work. Could be a product you sell, or your own cd, or something else. The
> whole looping world is watching if you put it on LD!
>
> enough groveling for now. :-)
>
> kim
>
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> Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
> kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
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