Thank you very much for the compliment and such.

I have decided to start rhyming all of my replies, thinking up rhymes sure makes the time fly.

 

The only one who nows how much he makes is Nick. Does that make him a *****?

Teh OT is Fun for any one.

 

Running that site out of his house is just ridiculous. If the site is that profitable, he is an idiot, moron for running it out of his house. I may not go back there.

 

Exactly...If he makes 120k or 12k he is still an idiot.

 

Here's what I don't understand (and don't flame me, this is just my opinion). From some of these posts and noting that many people miss it, NASIOC offers a very important service to both the users and the vendors. Why on earth is everyone so angry that the guy makes money from it? Nothing in this world is free and virtually anything worth doing is worth doing for profit. It's simple capitalism.

I applaud the guy for inventing a better mousetrap. That said, he definitely should have been hosting his site in a datacenter. While many hosting companies in South Florida might be having trouble with telecommunications down, because they have a contract to host a particular site, the onus is on them to find another temporary host. In other words, it becomes their problem. We host several customer sites with a local web host. I wouldn't even dream of trying to run them out of my house or even my office.

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I think you may be missing the point people are trying to make. It's not that he makes money from it. It's that he makes money and STILL hosts it from his house in Florida even after numerous people have asked/complained that it should be done in a proper Data Center.

Good for him he makes money from it, but if I were a vendor on that site and was looking at 2 weeks of downtime I would be pissed especially paying what some of them pay for Vendor/Mod status.

 

I never said I was angry at the guy, just that I didn't much see why he was hosting the site out of his basement when solutions worlds better are readily available.

Yup, it definitely caught him good.

Besides the fact that what you just said makes absolutely no sense at all... I'll put off my comments for 2 more sentences.

Most "web hosting" companies are in some fashion a reseller, in the worst of cases you end up being a customer of a customer of a customer of the data center, and that can be very frustrating when something is going on. Enter colocation: your equipment and the data center's power, space, and network. The data center you choose is important, its facilities are what make it or break it. Battery backups, on-site emergency generator, 24/7 customer access, etc. Half the time a customer of a data center is no where near the center, thus most offer some type of remote hands service.

In all honesty, Nick is having to work too much. And the price he's paying to have such a great internet connection at home with which to host NASIOC, well, let's just say it might actually be cheaper to host at a data center.

 

It's pretty obvious Alex uses it as well but thanks for pointing that out.

How is the use of Adsense and that ridiculous keyword program bashing? I run adsense on 5 different websites and manage to pay for monthly gas and groceries. I see nothing wrong with Alex and Nick making money off their unique and adsense happy visitors. It's business and a perk of running a popular site.

My point is that if I was practically guranteed $100 a day from those programs for the rest of my life so long as they aren't being abused per Google's adsense rules, then I’d have my server made of Titanium in Ft. Knox.

 

Exactly. It's no way to protect an investment.

 

Hammer meet nail head..

 

 

last count i saw was that he had about 120 or so vendors...

and by all means his hosting company is based on the butter he makes from nasioc...

if it wasnt for iclub there would be no nasioc, which means there would be no fusiondesigns or what ever the hell he calls his bs hosting/web design firm (their portfolio is horrible)....

 

Angry because he pawns him self off as a sort of "liberator" type. A person who built and maintains the site free of charge so that he can continue his love of subarus... Which is bull****

Call it how it is, nick you are in it for the money, nothing less nothing more.

always have been and always will be

 

Over-generalize much?




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sweet was wondering where the flock would end up... see i just came home to BAIC