If Anandtech forums dies.. where does the community prefer to move to?

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Red Squirrel

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Reddit and social media has it's place but it's a crap replacement for an actual forum. It could act as a temporary place though until something is figured out.
 

AMCRambler

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Peak ATOT died a long time ago. Used to be new posts with original content here every 2 minutes and it was a thriving community. Heavy handed moderation killed it and people moved on. It's a shell of what it was.
 

FelixDeCat

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Peak ATOT died a long time ago. Used to be new posts with original content here every 2 minutes and it was a thriving community. Heavy handed moderation killed it and people moved on. It's a shell of what it was.
I remember those times and it was fun if not a bit chaotic at times. That was also a time when most non technical conversations happened in Off Topic before the creation of sub forums. Compared to then, traffic has definitely slowed but even after 25+ years people still come and discuss things.

As Axel Rose once said, "Where do we go? Ahhh where do we go now? Aye, aye, aye..."
 
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Red Squirrel

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Not sure how much Future is paying but a forum this size only really needs a single server, don't need anything fancy. Something in the <$200/mo ballpark would do fine. Even low $100. The one my forum is hosted on is through Soyoustart which is the discount line of OVH, and I pay under $100. It hosts a bunch of other sites too, including one that hits the server pretty heavily as it runs a poller application that does lot of disk IO. For this forum if setting up from scratch it would maybe make sense to go a little higher end.


The first option for $120/mo would probably be more than enough. So figure about $140/mo after taxes etc.

Storage might be the tricky bit, as leased servers in that price range tend to not really give you much storage (only a few TB) but they do have options with more storage into more expensive territory like $300+.

Restricting attachments or even not even allowing them in first place could go a long way to reduce storage needs though.
 

MrDudeMan

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Not sure how much Future is paying but a forum this size only really needs a single server, don't need anything fancy. Something in the <$200/mo ballpark would do fine. Even low $100. The one my forum is hosted on is through Soyoustart which is the discount line of OVH, and I pay under $100. It hosts a bunch of other sites too, including one that hits the server pretty heavily as it runs a poller application that does lot of disk IO. For this forum if setting up from scratch it would maybe make sense to go a little higher end.
Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
 

DAPUNISHER

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Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
Good info thanks.

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Torn Mind

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Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
I dunno man. Hfboards has times when they are overloaded when there is a big new event. There is also a Washington Commanders board I am a part of. The owner was literally going to pull the plug a few years ago, then he asked the community if we were interested in some "donate and become a part owner model" So I pay 10 dollars a month, and I think there are at least the other people, so that would be about $100, and that board is MUCH less active than this one.
 

Red Squirrel

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Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.

I suppose cloud could work, just need to watch if there is a sudden influx in traffic/cpu usage etc or any weird event (Ex: DDoS) as it can cause a huge bill. A dedicated server is your own bare metal box to yourself so it does tend to have a higher base price, but you don't have to worry about price influxes based on resource usage.

AWS would have redundancy though so that would be a plus. A whole DC can go down and the service should stay up.
 
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I have an activation link in that bounce message, but I'm not sure if I can change the email address on the member page.

Sent the link manually.
 
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