If you are Online. You need to read this and participate in this now!

Rolclub started as a response to pipsinc’s own forum closing down. I believe we all needed a site to se the development of pips. In the beginning lots of people were against any forum. But I guess we weren’t wrong. There was and is a need of such a site. We have today more then 7000 members on Rolclub and increasing all the time.

Reading several of the posts, about other forums that promote other programs, to earn advertising money or charge their members up to 100Usd, I get a feeling that many are trying to make money. This is something I have been trying to avoid, paying all rolclub expenses out of my own pocket for past 3-4 months.

We have had expenses in form off domain name change twice, changing hosting providers twice, adding several moderator option to their Cp as well to add function to the admin CP, keeping the forum from going down because of session problems, corrupt database correction, adding chat that need to be changed, spending countless ours on the site to keep it clean etc etc. etc. Ongoing expenses all the time. This has become somewhat a bit costly.

We have today a hosting provider that offers us 4000 MB of storage, and up to 300 GB of monthly transfer. But since we have increased in size, and the amount of people browsing and posting on our forum has increased enormously, we simply need a dedicated server to deal with so many pips members. We need a stable server with good internet connection and a transfer bandwith that is way more then what we have today.

Our hosting provider is very often asking us to look into something dedicated. This is the reason that you all see the error mentioned below increasingly:
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Warning: mysql_connect(): User 'rolclub' has exceeded the 'max_connections' resource (current value: 7200) in /www/r/rolclubcom/htdocs/db/mysql4.php on line 48

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /www/r/rolclubcom/htdocs/db/mysql4.php on line 330

Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /www/r/rolclubcom/htdocs/db/mysql4.php on line 331
phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
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We have done what we can do to correct all other problems, but this problem will increase until we get our own server. I am sorry, I can’t afford more expenses like this at the moment out of my own pocket. I never thought we will increase so much in size. But am very glad for it.

Here is the problem. We need to start charging our members money to cover the expenses for Rolclub.com. Otherwise the site will have more downtime then uptime. BUT!!!! We only wish to pay the expenses of the site. It does not mean that we wanted to earn any money on you!But we dont know who many will pay us. Our profit might be 0 or high. Depends on how many pay. But remember, we have cost all the time, and need to extra funds to change things and so on aswell. I could also use some of it to get back the few thousand Usd i have spent til now if i make any profit at all. I think its fair.

A good server cost a few thousand Usd, and I am not going to waste my time looking for something inexpensive and so we have this problem again. We need a good internet provider that can run our server with a high speed internet, as well as protect our server with the needed software to keep it from being hacked and so on… We need a Programmer very often to do corrections in the forum database and all other types of problems mentioned above. And that does not come for free.

I believe we will soon be closing inn to 10000 members in a 1-2 months at this speed of signups, and if we leave this problem as it is, I am afraid you will not see to much of Rolclub as it probably will be down all the time.

I did not wish to make money from this, but if i do, i will spend it well :-). Anyway, I decided to ask you all what you think about this. How much is fair? I ask all of you to participate in this now, as you can affect this matter now. I am more then happy if this membership fee covers the running cost of Rolclub. And you all can have a place on web to keep tracking pips.

They way I see it. I should charge a 25 Usd a year fee. That’s should cover all expenses that we have now with setting up a new server, its software, making this site a paied site with a software, moving database to an new server, and any later cost of the site.


We need to shift ASAP. I hope you all understand my point. If you wish to make a wrong conclusion out of this, yes you can.. But does that solve the forum problem we have today?

Hope to hear your views, as I have given you mine on how things are here at Rolclub.com. There will be a similar posting on Rolclub's The Program and General chat forums. You are welcome to participate there.

Best regards

Admin

PLEASE, BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD, READ ALL IF YOU HAVE TIME, AND IF NOT, DO NOT POST ANYTHING IN THIS THREAD, AS I CAN'T ANSWER YOU ALL ONE BYE ONE SEVERAL TIMES ON THE SAME QUESTIONS.

AND PLEASE STOP BLAMING US FOR WHAT OTHER FORUMS HAVE DONE, OR DO! THEY DO WHAT THEY DO BEST. WE HAVE OUR PROBLEMS TO SOLVE, AND NOT THEIRS ASWELL.!!! I AM NOT GOING TO COMENT ANY THING ON WHAT BTI DOES, OR HAVE DONE!

PLEASE GO BACK AND READ IT ALL FROM THE START.

ANY QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BEFORE WILL BE DELETED HERE! AS I CANT ANSWER YOU ON SAME QUESTIONS TIME AFTER TIME. I HOPE YOU VALUE MY TIME ASWELL. PLEASE GO BACK AND READ!

YOU ARE SEVERAL THAT ASK, I AM THE ONLYONE TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS.
REGARDS

ADMIN