How much does this forum cost to host each month?

As stated at the start of the thread they are hosted by Serverstream who are also Register1 (http://www.register1.net) the DC is in London Docklands.

I have a website hosted by them on shared hosting they are very very fast and their support is top notch. Difference being is OCUK is using dedicated server hosting. You could easierly look up the cost on register1.. perhaps something like this? 2TB month transfer £64 a month? or £49 a month for 3 years http://register1.net/servers.php edit: Am guessing OCUK use 2 servers.. one for the forum and another for the shop, would make sense.

But the main question comes down to how much bandwidth does the forum consume! 2TB sounds like it would be enough per month for a forum of this kind..
 
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No the photos in those threads wasn't hosted by OCUK, as this forum doesn't allow picture uploading. Instead the user had to upload the photo somewhere else and add the img tag in their reply so it shows on the forum. Those threads prob went due to someone posting a dodgy photo ;)
 
RemainNameless said:
What a load of rubbish.

A) Free shipping is only for 'loyal' members, this rules out a huge percentage of the forum population.

B) Users who have first been attracted to OCUK through the forums but may no longer frequent the forums at all, whilst still remaining a loyal customer.

C) Users who are now using the free shipping may have placed an order with OCUK long before becoming a forum member.

So in conclusion, you're way off the mark.
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I can't get it despite being a loyal customer as i'm outside the UK... Still OCUK is one of VERY few companies who do sales and returns outside the UK.

For this reason I give them my business even if they are slightly dearer than others they are usually cheaper than mainland europe.
 
forum pays for itself hundreds of times over as it keeps people coming back to the OCUK site...

it's a great idea in marketing that others should follow


if you get people talking about the latest and greatest hardware, people will wanna upgrade just by reading.. it's called 'i want one of those as well' syndrome.
 
Ben M said:
I want to punch that bint in the face.
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Haha yeah i know what you exactly mean!

I used that company for quite a long time (Probably 4~ Years) but never used the browser and had zero (0) problems until i tried to leave and then the snitz hit the fan :(

Because they had took over my phone line for broadband they would not let me migrate to skybb because i was supposedly in my first years contract which i wasnt and then once that was sorted out it took 28/30 days for aol to release my line to bt and then aol tried to bill me for a full 12 month broadband :( it was a nightmare.

Come to think of it, it is a very long story i wont bore you with & luckily i am aohell free ;) and skybb is excellent...
 
Seriously not sure where people get their figures from... a dedicated server with a 100mbit connection with several TB a month of bandwidth and a decent dual core CPU from a professional hosting center in London would only set you back £50-60 a month... and be fine for hosting a forum like this... at the most they are paying £100 or so a month or they are spending over the odds.

The avg. size of a page on these forums is ~96Kb and theres an average of 250 users connected - they aren't even going to be refreshing at the rate of 1 page a second probably on average its closer to 5 minutes... so I would be very suprised if the outgoing throughput exceeds 1-2Mbit/s. So over an entire month I would be suprised if traffic was more than 500gig or so combined in/out.
 
Rroff said:
Seriously not sure where people get their figures from... a dedicated server with a 100mbit connection with several TB a month of bandwidth and a decent dual core CPU from a professional hosting center in London would only set you back £50-60 a month... and be fine for hosting a forum like this... at the most they are paying £100 or so a month or they are spending over the odds.

The avg. size of a page on these forums is ~96Kb and theres an average of 250 users connected - they aren't even going to be refreshing at the rate of 1 page a second probably on average its closer to 5 minutes... so I would be very suprised if the outgoing throughput exceeds 1-2Mbit/s. So over an entire month I would be suprised if traffic was more than 500gig or so combined in/out.
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Bandwidth is inconsequential for a forum like this. A £60/month server is *not* going to cope adequately even with the PHP let alone the database.

Many of the people who have posted in this thread work for hosting companies so we do have a fairly good idea what we're talking about ;).
 
The only thing on a £60 a month server that wouldn't really be suited to the task would be the HDD and backup options - which is why I included a higher figure. Most of them now have a fast core 2 dual core as a minimum which can easily handle the backend php/database for a site like this several times over.

I was for quite awhile running a php5 setup with a mysql database logging stats on a bunch of TMNF servers with around 200 connected players at any one time and it was only using about 10% CPU and about 1.2 load averages on an old dual core Pentium-D... and that was probably 5 times the load needed for these forums. IO throughput, number of threads and connections was easily handled by a fairly old bit of kit.
 
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Wouldn't be a lot I doubt, V-B is only a small fee per year, and hosting isn't a massive cost on a text only forum, with no custom avatars or picture hosting.
 
And then think about how many people buy things from here because of the forums, just because of the GTX280 thread on the price drops they sold out very quick!
 
Browse along to the host that I mentioned on page 5. The HDD options are well, fine. 'FREE 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD & NO SETUP on 3 Yr Rental' is what they are probably on x2. Could quite easierly back up between the two servers, even could simply backup both the forum and shop sites via local download, they won't be huge.

I do agree that the cost to host these forums is a small blip compared to the amount of sales generated by these forums.
 
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Hehe these threads are always fun. Real service costs real money....yeah, you could get a £50, £100 or £200/mo server but a) it wouldn't handle the load in any shape or form and b) what happens when you have a disk failure at 3am?

We're quoting for a forum of a similar size to OcUK and it's coming to the low 5 figures/year region....and even then that's special price...not connected to Adz's post btw :)
 
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