How much does this forum cost to host each month?

It works faultlessly, no point in having what is ment to be the latest and greatest if its unreliable. Their network is very fast and supremely relaible and that along with the excellent customer service is what counts.

As a customer i dont care what kit they use as long as the above criteria are filled....which it is, 24/7/365!
 
Slime101 said:
It works faultlessly, no point in having what is ment to be the latest and greatest if its unreliable. Their network is very fast and supremely relaible and that along with the excellent customer service is what counts.

As a customer i dont care what kit they use as long as the above criteria are filled....which it is, 24/7/365!
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Maybe it does, but the kit is old (so old in fact, in the case of 3500s that the manufacturer no longer offers support). That equals an increased risk of failure and it looks cheap that they've used kit which is designed for office networks, not service providers. It's just opinion at the end of the day, but it looks like the work of a small company (thats not always bad, you'll likely be one of a small number of customers and get good, flexible, service) but for me, it doesn't look professional and indicative of a serious service provider. Each to their own though...
 
bigredshark said:
Maybe it does, but the kit is old (so old in fact, in the case of 3500s that the manufacturer no longer offers support). That equals an increased risk of failure and it looks cheap that they've used kit which is designed for office networks, not service providers. It's just opinion at the end of the day, but it looks like the work of a small company (thats not always bad, you'll likely be one of a small number of customers and get good, flexible, service) but for me, it doesn't look professional and indicative of a serious service provider. Each to their own though...
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I doubt they actually use 3500s these days, I would imagine they're just too lazy to update the site ;).

We still have some 3524s/3548s.... under a desk, covered in dust with various other junk piled on top.
 
tom_nieto said:
Well, it must be at least six figures after taking the dons' salaries into account.
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If only, the only dons that get paid by the store are the ones who work in it.;)
 
The actual forum is probably on a lease line along with the overclockers trading website, about the only cost is the v-bulletin software.
 
but web hosting isn't that expensive anymore, you can get unlimited web space and bandwidth now for like 20 pound a month, i no ocUK would be a bit more than this due to the fact that the servers they use will take more than 45 percent load due to the traffic (most web hosts disable accounts that exceed a 45 percent sever load). in which case they probably use dedicated servers, still from a web hosting company. a decent quad core server with 250gb hdd would cost around 150-200 pound per month, they probably have two dedicated servers. plus the forum is powered by Vbulletin the annual cost for this would be around 100 pound a year maybe, i use free forum software (SMF) so i don't really know about Vbulliten lol.

i could be totaly wrong but this is how i think they do it :)

Edit/ i mean 2 dedi servers for the whole of ocUK, not just the forum, becuase if you look in the domain its actualy a sub-domain (www.sub-domain.website123.co.uk for example) so its just an extra lease of of the main domain site.
 
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Think about almost 1000 processes being carried out almost every second. Nothing but dedicated could handle this as has previously been said. The MySQL database will then probably be spaced over more than one server. More like 3 servers to load balance. Then the forum serevr will be completley seperate from the shop server. The shop server is potentially higher spec as it is more important.

vBulletin costs would be a small part of what OcUK have to pay.
 
Adz said:
I doubt they actually use 3500s these days, I would imagine they're just too lazy to update the site ;).
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That's even worse imho, too lazy to update your site, too lazy to give you a call with my business :) (he's probably too busy out driving porsches or tvrs, or whatever it is nowadays :p)

S.A.S said:
but web hosting isn't that expensive anymore, you can get unlimited web space and bandwidth now for like 20 pound a month, i no ocUK would be a bit more than this due to the fact that the servers they use will take more than 45 percent load due to the traffic (most web hosts disable accounts that exceed a 45 percent sever load). in which case they probably use dedicated servers, still from a web hosting company. a decent quad core server with 250gb hdd would cost around 150-200 pound per month, they probably have two dedicated servers. plus the forum is powered by Vbulletin the annual cost for this would be around 100 pound a year maybe, i use free forum software (SMF) so i don't really know about Vbulliten lol.

i could be totaly wrong but this is how i think they do it :)

Edit/ i mean 2 dedi servers for the whole of ocUK, not just the forum, becuase if you look in the domain its actualy a sub-domain (www.sub-domain.website123.co.uk for example) so its just an extra lease of of the main domain site.
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2 servers for the whole of ocuk?
 
i agree with cheechm, the database would be spread out so not one server is at max load at one time, and thinking about it the shop server is probably on its own one he is right, but forums dont take much data handling and dont take much disk space, even at this size
 
Yewen said:
As he owns the company and we have figures for phone / website traffic etc. :p
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But how are you determining every order has not been as a result of the forum? Do you ask them all when they phone up if they are a user of the forum? Or were a forum user before ordering?
 
S.A.S said:
well yeah i was going a bit small time there, especially if the forums database is spread between 2 servers, the shop would defiantly have its own though
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and the rest! What happens if the single server breaks? That's a lot of lost revenue with no redundancy.
 
At the back of the OCUK warehouse is a building marked with a red cross and that's where the servers are.
In the picture you can see a lorry and that is blocking the WiFi path to the shop and that's why we get some downtime on the forums.
The security guard told me that the building with the server costs £40 a week to hire.

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