ANY ONE upgrade to a paid member yet?????
- Thread starter JustinB
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right now I am on 3 forums...this one is loading pages at 4-5 sec per page..both the others are 1-2 sec per page..this site is slower....
Those three tests were done from my home on a 128K DSL.
Thats about the worst connection you can get these days, but I live out in the country.
Thats about the worst connection you can get these days, but I live out in the country.
Understood.
Our best guess on why we don't ever seem to be able to get below the 4 second mark is the ISP that Harris Publishing it using for the Fiber Optic connection into the corporate headquarters.
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Adrenalin
Well-known member
care to explain christopher ? this is what you mailed to me and i assume EVERYONE else ? correct me if i am wrong but i thought snowest had nothing to do with harris pub now that we have are own servers / hardware ?
as a paying and PAYED customer of snowest i think i deserve an anwer ? as well as everyone else on here that paid. i mean after all this is what you wanted ? right ? members to pay well with that comes another price and thats giving us what you said you would give us ?
The SnoWest Servers live in the Harris Publishing building, and share rack space with all of their servers.
Thus we all share a common fiber optic link to the local ISP in Idaho Falls.
Our new servers outshine everything else they have.
Thus we all share a common fiber optic link to the local ISP in Idaho Falls.
Our new servers outshine everything else they have.
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BigFish BC
Well-known member
looks like about 130 paid members vs 700 freebees
& 150 peps logged on not very good #s
& 150 peps logged on not very good #s
here we are on day one.
You are only seeing the people that read this thread that have upgraded. You are not seeing the people that have upgraded, who have no interest in this thread. Which would be the vast majority.
You are only seeing the people that read this thread that have upgraded. You are not seeing the people that have upgraded, who have no interest in this thread. Which would be the vast majority.
looks like about 130 paid members vs 700 freebees
when I checked the sites day numbers it showed 3543 members logged in today...I counted 276 paid members(no mods or admins counted)
Out of the 11,607 members that have read the letter from harris thread 673 have paid. That's only 5.8%
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BigFish BC
Well-known member
i have seen that many online at the same time 150 online just after supper busy time, sad .dosnt matter to me what happens sw is not my life sad to seeit change, if they let me stay in some form for free i will be here. if not so be it i will go to the other places there would have to be allot more here for me to pay dont see it yet
It really is sad to see Snowest falling apart. I haven't commented much on the whole process because i just don't care. This site has been going down hill for some time. It is too bad to see all the good info and advice evaporate. There are many other sites that will replace this one in the future. I hope Harris knows what they are doing ! The magazine was never good, ever !
Still on the Fence
I am still waiting to decide about continuing on this forum, one of my main issues is that I find it very discouraging that all the posters & members who are making decisions, that are becoming "Moderators" and who are paying this membership fee, are "Mostly" all "newbies" who have joined within the last 2 - 3 years. There are exceptions where I see some "ol timers" are still involved, those of us who starrted & nutured this site over the last 11 years, but I would say that this forum is now 80- 90 % All New forum names and members.
I have made at least 50 lifelong frineds due to my involvment at this site ............ but now, it is hardly worth logging on.
All this just tells me .............. "We're not in Kansas anymore Toto." and that saddens me greatly ...........
I am still waiting to decide about continuing on this forum, one of my main issues is that I find it very discouraging that all the posters & members who are making decisions, that are becoming "Moderators" and who are paying this membership fee, are "Mostly" all "newbies" who have joined within the last 2 - 3 years. There are exceptions where I see some "ol timers" are still involved, those of us who starrted & nutured this site over the last 11 years, but I would say that this forum is now 80- 90 % All New forum names and members.
I have made at least 50 lifelong frineds due to my involvment at this site ............ but now, it is hardly worth logging on.
All this just tells me .............. "We're not in Kansas anymore Toto." and that saddens me greatly ...........
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snowmobiler
Well-known member
get er done.newbies need some learnin on how to start there sleds.
I am still waiting to decide about continuing on this forum, one of my main issues is that I find it very discouraging that all the posters & members who are making decisions, that are becoming "Moderators" and who are paying this membership fee, are "Mostly" all "newbies" who have joined within the last 2 - 3 years. There are exceptions where I see some "ol timers" are still involved, those of us who starrted & nutured this site over the last 11 years, but I would say that this forum is now 80- 90 % All New forum names and members.
I have made at least 50 lifelong frineds due to my involvment at this site ............ but now, it is hardly worth logging on.
All this just tells me .............. "We're not in Kansas anymore Toto." and that saddens me greatly ...........
If you feel my time on here is not long enough(I was a member before the date in my profile but never changed when site changed)I will step down for you to take over my voluntiered position as moderator.
Go through my profile and past posts and see all the bashing I have done to members.
Dave
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Thunderguy BOOSTED
Well-known member
Iam on 3-6 threads at a time and its always fast!( faster since i upgraded to a paid member!!)
