- Oct 19, 2005
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The time, effort, expense and pure thought that you guys put into this place is massively appreciated.It's a two-fold problem to some extent:
1) Advertising revenue has dropped off a cliff and as we keep seeing, Google keep trying to push the really annoying (full screen, pop-up, etc) ads. If we allowed them, it could well pay for itself but it really ruins the site.
2) We need a server that can handle the insane traffic for about 2 weeks of the year. We have to pay for it for the whole year though. It'd be a fraction of the cost to support the server for a normal boring week in November or March. We've looked at options for "on demand" type pricing before and these just never worked (or they got really ridiculous really fast). So we're paying a premium to make sure we don't go down at the end of January/August.
At the minute I'm reasonably happy. We do have to pass the begging bowl around a few times a year but that generally works well and means we can avoid going down the Football London route with all their adverts.
You run a fan forum, with the fans in mind.
The fact that you reject the chance to cash in on all the annoying ads, to keep this place clean and easy to use, is something that doesn't get enough credit.
I tried to up my monthly donation not that long ago but couldn't manage to get PayPal to work properly.
I guess the best work-around is to just set up a second one?
Apart from popping into TFC for a laugh when some banned members go postal over there, this is the only Spurs forum I ever have, and ever will use.
(There have been some pure comedy moments on TFC from people who have been kicked from here!).