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Site: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding |
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 This site came online back just a few short months ago and we have establish strong ties with the entire Nuke community. It is an amazing history we have experienced in such short a time. However, due to our rapid growth and public trust in us, we're in need of funding to help offset the continual loss of monies from running this site, and our sister: Computer Cops.
We're in a position at CI Host to upgrade our current Dedicated 1 package from 100 GB per month bandwidth (256 MB memory) to 1000 GB per month bandwidth (384 MB memory). However, another year contract is required at the expense of $300 per month. So far the donations have helped, but we're still in the red every month just maintaining the server.
The details on the packages can be found here:
CI Host
This brings the cost currently to $3600 per year. However, since this site seems to be gaining momentum very quickly now, I hope to step up to the Dedicated 2 plan that offers 512 MB memory and doubles the hard drive space for files and database storage. This now comes to $500 per month at a cost of $6000 for the new contract year.
I'm seeking angels to help offset the cost up front such that the site can continue to evolve as has been done from the start.
Currently our server also hosts Computer Cops which was the first venture to help the Security Community in general. It is now taking off very well at over 30,000 hits per day and broke 500,000 page views this month a week ago. Now we just reached over 4,000 registered members.
Another plan of mine is to mirror PacketStorm security while continuing as an official support forum for Firetrust and Proxomitron. That's where the 1,000 GB bandwidth comes in focus. However, Nuke Cops has turned into a global phenomenon and we've got plans galore for the future. So we need help.
Please contact me via this site using Private Messaging to "Zhen-Xjell". I would love to upgrade immediately.
My personal thanks to everyone who has been so supportive of my vision for the site. To everyone who has participated in the forums, helped to maintain and grow the site, those who advertise, and sent donations, you are the fabric of this site and the reason why I find it so enjoyable.
Thanks
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Posted on Wednesday, May 28 @ 12:38:57 CEST by Zhen-Xjell |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ganast on Wednesday, May 28 @ 18:43:17 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | You need to offer a service. I have purchased the "one month club membership" from FB several times. $10 is a small amount, and I get the code early... that's kindof a lame service, but I am willing to shell out for it. Enough said.
I host about 15 nuke sites. There are others here who host litterally hundreds. Why do we come to your site? Security.
Set up some sort of monitoring service, and we will pay $$$ every month. Like set up a script that checks a client's server and each of the submitted nuke installations for security problems, and charge $2/month for the server and $1/month for each site, with discounts over a certain number of sites. A lot of people will prepay by the month or the year. Way more than you will need to fund your site.
A sysadmin with one site will just install analyze.php, but someone with 15 sites would rather pay $10 or $15 bucks to have someone else email him the stats on his sites.
You can later expand this to analyze his apache, various ports, email or page the sysadmin if the site goes down or appears to be under some kind of attack, and you can charge for the addons when you make them!
Hello? Anti-virus software is almost the most lucritive type of software on the net... why not make us some hack-alert software? If you price it right, you will get a lot of customers... your hits speak for themselves. |
Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Atoum on Wednesday, May 28 @ 18:59:21 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Wow...this sounds big! :) |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ExtremeGamer on Thursday, May 29 @ 07:42:46 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://mra-impa.org | I feel that the potential value of phpNUKE is endless, however, I refuse to put any monetary investment in something that until now has afforded little in the way of security, as well.
I run a potentially large community of computer and video gamers. Although my membership is large, monetary support is slim. My bandwidth, etc. for my 15 plus sites doesn't come anywhere near the cost of my time.
Until phpNUKE can come up with something better for security and support I will find little in the way of monetary funding. If my efforts were bringing in more funds it wouldn't be much of an issue for me, however my costs come out of my pocket too. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Zhen-Xjell on Thursday, May 29 @ 12:47:08 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://castlecops.com | | That's just it, if the funding doesn't come then these sites will be taken down. Tell me, what other sites have contributed as much for fixes and security patches as these have? |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ganast on Thursday, May 29 @ 18:56:26 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Dude, you are so right. You have done just that. you are the security man, and we love it. But you are not putting a price on your services. Do it! I'm not messing with you. Sell us a service! We will buy it...
Open source your stuff for the one man band type of sysadmin, but package it for those of us who have a stack of sites! We want automation!
Oh, and think about moving your major support to xaraya or something... FB is killing us.
--gabe |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by MikeMiles on Friday, May 30 @ 07:39:28 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Ganast is absolutely right you need to shift your thinking. Donations are fine for a relatively small site, but as you grow you need to start thinking like a business to help cover your ever growing expenses. There's a right way and a dumb way. Please don't elect the dumb way like FB has done because it just pisses off a lot of people.
I recommend you go over to Invision Board's site and look around at how they are implementing their business plan. Their software is not GPL, but they are a good role model to learn from. What they do is offer their forum's software releases to include bug and security fixes completely free for personal and commercial use. They provide free support via their forums only. Their revenues are generated by extra services one of which includes off-board support. Some of their services are priced and geared towards businesses or those with many/larger sites. Their sole advertising is a required copyright notice on their forum which they actively enforce. They have nutured their community in such a way that there is no internal bickering and backbiting. This aids in spreading their products even more via word of mouth.
You too can develop a niche of products, and you don't have to limit yourself to the PhpNuke community. Security is extremely important. No one likes to see their sites hacked up. Like ganast has pointed out, certain groups of people (not everyone nor even the majority) will pay for extra services. Use the revenue you get from these to cover your expenses and probably even earn a decent salary for your time. Like you said: "if the funding doesn't come then these sites will be taken down" Right, so think ahead but do it smartly and in a way in which you are not alienating a large group of your audience. There is no reason for you to give away everything you do. There are groups of people who will gladly pay on a regular basis if they see they get something real for their money. Don't take the approach FB did because that is the wrong way and will eventually totally fail. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Imago on Thursday, May 29 @ 14:57:13 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.euronuke.org | | With 500,000 pageviews I used to get $400 per month from www.sonar.com - the US division of Doubleclick. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Imago on Friday, May 30 @ 05:12:04 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.euronuke.org | It was DART
http://www.doubleclick.com/us/solutions/publishers/online/default.asp
If you get approved they will appoint two contact persons to communicate with you. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by jbsarma on Thursday, May 29 @ 18:06:41 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.assamchronicle.com | | Nuke Cops got a total of about 1800 members. If you make an arrangement I am more than happy to pay $5-10/ and sure so will be hundreds of members if not all. So raising a couple of thousand at the minimum should not be a problem. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Atoum on Thursday, May 29 @ 20:16:58 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | I love the fisrt service-selling idea. The dls and everything remains free for all, so sticks 100% to GNU/OS. Automatisation, and that is only optional, not vital to anyone, gets paying. 100% normal, the service offered has nothing to do with GNU licence, we're talking about independant services requiring extra independent time/bandwodth resources from the site.
People seem to be waiting for this (not me I admit, host only one site so won't need it), so go for it!! And please please please please organise Freenuke working groups fast, so we can get it fast! :p I'd like to volunteer for the translations group. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by dsnail2000 on Thursday, May 29 @ 22:37:06 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.controlbooth.com | | I am thinking a block that kept track of how much is given would help bring in more money. I created an example graphic to show very roughly what it might look like.. fundraiser picture [www.nukecops.com]
NOTE: That isn't working code, just a picture of what working code "could" look like. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by decker on Friday, May 30 @ 04:29:25 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hi!
I'm willing to pay for the Forum XML and Downloads XML scripts!
Why not put em out for "sale" ?? =)
-decker- |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Mesum on Saturday, May 31 @ 01:49:45 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.desitribe.com | I know this sounds kinda bad but you can sell your impression to others.
Add a note to your main page telling people to help you out by signing up for some services from some other site.
If you really wanna keep the project up, you'll have to do something you don't like to do. |
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CafePress.com? (Score: 1)
by dsnail2000 on Saturday, May 31 @ 14:30:36 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.controlbooth.com | Have you thought about a creating a store at CafePress.com? You can set up a shop for free and upload graphics that can be put on t-shirts, mugs, etc. They have a set base price and you decide what to charge above the base price and you get everything above the base price!
P.S. I would love to be able to get a coffee mug with the NukeCops logo on it!
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Re: CafePress.com? (Score: 1)
by dsnail2000 on Saturday, May 31 @ 14:31:49 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.controlbooth.com | | I have a couple of stores at cafepress, I would be happy to help out with creating graphics for the merchantise if you wanted it! |
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Re: CafePress.com? (Score: 1)
by Zhen-Xjell on Sunday, June 01 @ 08:54:37 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://castlecops.com | | I thought about it before but haven't asked for help in this area. I'd like to get images for both sites up at cafepress. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ganast on Saturday, May 31 @ 19:12:48 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Thought of another one for paying for your server... check out the "sponsored by RackShack.net" icon on xaraya.com, and I know I have seen "Pair Networks" logos on various big Open Source project pages... That probably means big discounts... or maybe free servers... and I'm willing to bet you get more hits than xaraya.com does... for now anyway.
Ask your host to "sponsor" your server upgrade since a lot of your hits are from people who need hosting...
--gabe |
Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by MikeMiles on Sunday, June 01 @ 01:01:20 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Some companies will indeed give free servers and unmetered bandwidth or a reasonable amount of bandwidth to open source projects. As far as I can tell though, it's usually to the main project sites. Pair Networks supports Geeklog with a free server and bandwidth. I don't know who else they or Rackshack support. It's definitely worth the asking. The worst they could do is say no and the best would be to cut your expenses to near nothing. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by MikeMiles on Sunday, June 01 @ 01:30:53 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | I checked register.com. PhpNuke is also using Rackshack servers. I would be suprised if they aren't providing him a server and bandwidth for free or at a greatly reduced price.
He happens to be on the same servers as some bulk spammers who have been reported a few times in usernet. What a pain that must be. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Zhen-Xjell on Sunday, June 01 @ 08:56:10 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://castlecops.com | | Francisco suggested to me last week I try RackShack.net, and upon email contact, they told me to look at their website for product and pricing information. So there doesn't appear to be luck there. |
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by afc on Sunday, June 01 @ 12:02:51 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | There a good hosting company, i use them to run a gaming file server, I do have around 75 extra gig a month. I could host nukecops for free. nukecops helped me out with a problems it the least i could do for you. |
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