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This thread is outdated. The one below has more info but is not any more successful. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3677939;page=unread#unread blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Is that 5,000 to 10,000 actual video transfers per day? Or standard web page hits? Popular videos can spike to over a million if it goes suddenly "viral", although that more often happens with YouTube. The cost can be quite unpredictable, and the hosting service sometimes have to come back and ask for the upgraded service. Someone does need to ask the original owner how much it cost, but at full price, it can cost well over $100 per month especially if traffic more than doubles, and that's over a grand per year. If it spikes in popularity, hosting service comes calling and forces you to leave or upgrade your plan. (I believe that's part of what happened with Skydiving Movies, earlier?) One alternate method is to make it a wrapper for a Skydivingmovies YouTube channel, meaning it becomes a website that has embedded videos using other servers for the video (i.e. YouTube). That would essentially be free bandwidth. That said, it would have to be more attractive to skydivers than just uploading directly to YouTube. Well I said "hits" here but in our conversation I implied hits and transfers. I'm aware it would be over $100 a month but I got in with him on affiliate info and such and he put me in to work for them by selling their services and etc.. Was just a different way than what I normally do. But that's how come the cost was drastically dropped. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Glad you've jumped in the mix here. It's late and at the moment I simply don't feel like looking up all my old posts but in short, I took the time to speak with my host provider and a professional high end provider about what it takes for our file based and streaming based website. Everyone and their jumpmaster has thrown up and streaming based site. It's nice but just not what everyone grew to love. I spent time on the phone getting exact numbers to host a file based website with a company specializing in that amount of bandwidth. Not to mention even set up an account (not affiliate but the term they use just left me) that gets me the cost of what is needed cut by HALF. The way I see it is if no one wants to pay the funds monthly themselves then a publicy viewable donation pool on the site is more appropriate if we want to leave advertisements out of the equation. If I recall, there were some scrolling ads at the top of the former skydivingmovies.com which I ACTUALLY used. I don't know why those few couldn't cover the cost. If you would like more detail on this I will dig up the info again and get us some more numbers. I believe I quoted somewhere around 5,000 - 10,000 hits a day just to be safe and with my account it was somewhere around $45 a month. It just really depends on which option was taken. Toss in your two cents. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Craig Poxon I believe is the actual owner or holder of the url skydivingmovies.com To save you some time, you're not going to be able to get his attention. I've done everything short of calling or going to his house. I believe it was in the UK. (Found through public information) Of course no one wants to give it up but they would rather hang on to it instead of "sharing" or letting someone do a site and they still kept the name. There are numerous ways to go about it to where they lose nothing and our community gains everything back. But instead we're stuck here having withdraws and the people who could give us our fix are being stubborn. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

It's a nice system that you found to run it but it's the same thing everyone else is done. If you really want to get people on board, it needs to be extremely similiar to the original. There is something about it that just draws me to the site watching higher quality videos. If you read all the threads on this topic, a lot of people mentioned they are not crazy about the flash streaming version of everything and we miss the file based site. Fund that and you'd be a saint I'm sure haha. Just giving my input because I am an old hardcore member and it's not quite on the nose of what we were trying to bring back. I appreciate the efforts thus far.. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

The company I use for my websites is http://www.hostmonster.com/track/cbkyro. You should get an excellent rate through my affiliate link ^ I wouldn't use this if I were hosting a filed based video site. For that, I have another larger scale provider I would go through. HostMonster has the best support you can find. They are based in the US out of Utah and I've never had an issue they couldn't resolve right away. Not to mention free domain for life and free 'whos' security. Can't beat em! blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Was only on for about a minute but works fine for me! Saw 3 or 4 jumpers walk by together. Good idea. Other busy DZs should do this.. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

I'm aware it would be something larger than just a "value hosting 'Unlimited' plan for 10 bucks a month". I would attach it as part of my current plan and all I need pay is for the domain. But if we want a dedicated line such as Virtual Private Server, we're getting into bigger bucks which is still a possibility to get a discount on through me. IE. 50% cheaper is doable. I just want the same ole friggin website back that I got on at school and work. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

-Sigh- This gets really old. The site has been down for ages now and I don't understand why Dave and/or whomever is relentless on letting anyone assist. Space and funds is NOT the problem. The only think I can see remaining is the time not wanting to be put into it. He said he backed up the old movies long ago and that was about the last we heard. What can we do to move this along? I have offered my services and it's only costing me only the price of registering the domain. Which Craig already has. I have a fast host, unlimited space and bandwidth. I think we would all like to see the old template the site used. That was more attractive to me than all the flash based now days but that's just my side. Please let us or someone know... blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Cancel that. I got an e-mail response from MAILER-DAEMON stating you don't have that e-mail setup yet. Sent you a PM. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Awesome news Chase! Check your contact e-mail blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Thanks man, we appreciate it! We'll give Free Featured and Extended ads to anyone that's posting right now. So feel free. Also we our advertising on the site is growing so if you have a company/site related to extreme sports or know someone who does, let them know we'll throw their banner up with a link back to their site for free. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

I totally agree. That's why I implimented this into my design with a simple click of a button just below the video. I think PilotDace is just avoiding me lol. I just want to bring back our site and let "Us" -the community of skydivingmovies.com customize it how we want it. If you all would rather, I can come up with a way to have a site identical to the old one. blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Sounds good man.. Let me know your size so I can save ya one and once we receive this next order I'll hook ya up with one. Also I think my partner ordered short sleeves as well as long. So give me size and preference on that. Thanks! cbkyro blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com

Haha, roger. I have more on order. Where are you from? They are sort of given to "approved" people. So other than size, I ask where you're from and what ya do? Not referring to work but I like to know how much we benefit from sending it to you. Statistically speaking We're U.S. based but have visitors from all over the globe. Let me know! blue ones, cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com blue skyz cbkyro http://www.FuelYourEdge.com