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This is in regards to this thread.
In this thread I'm going to try to best explain the changes that are going on here around RCNT as well as why.
RCNT Gallery:
There have been only minor changes to the image gallery, mainly in regards to file sizes but also with the use of the gallery.
1. Regular members now have a file storage of 768KB, this is only slightly smaller then previous. This change has been made mainly due to the reason that RCNT has been growing in size by leaps and bounds. We average about 250-300 new members each month, and that AFTER I delete the accounts that are not activated within 10days. So to continue allowing new members space for R/C images we had reduce the storage size of each member.
Along with that regular members now have a file upload size of 70KB. Before the upload size was 1MB, before the gallery had many images that where 1MB or just as big in size. Files of this size kill the server, not only in bandwidth but speed as well. Most html experts recommend images to be no longer then 30KB, however our limit here is 70KB.
2. Contributing Members has also been slightly effected by these changes, in the past contributing members have had a file upload limit size as big as their storage space (8MB), the new file upload size is now 100KB - your storage is still 8MB
Forum Sponsors:
1. There has been a new forum added which is located the RCNT Lounge and the Market Place. It's been asked and suggested by both members and manufactures that a "Manufactures" forum be added, and so now it has. These forums will allows reps from various different companies relating to the R/C community to discuss their products and company in general.
Member will find this beneficial in the fact they can talk directly to company reps to get any info they need about a particular product or products that company produces.
Manufactures and Retailers will find a forum like this beneficial for them as well. They now have direct access to thousands of members to which they can advertise their products to. Last month alone RCNT had over 99,000 visits!
Dedicated Server:
This has been the huge topic for the last couple of days. As one member already put it "RCNT is a victim of its own success!" For the last three or four months now RCNT has had to upgrade it's hosting plan, just to upgrade again the next month. Last month RCNT had over 7million hits to the site and more then 48GB of bandwidth used up. It's now becoming normal to see 60-70 people logged on at anytime during 10am-1am. Because of the increase growth the server has also become slower the only way to improve this problem and to get rid of the bandwidth worries for a long time to come would be to move up to a dedicated server - one just for RCNT. While we are taking steps to help decrease the bandwidth usage, there is no doubt that RCNT will be needing it's very own server more likely sooner then any later. We are exploring our options including our current host, nothing has been set in stone yet and we will let everyone know as soon as a decision has been made, until then all I can ask is to keep clicking the banners, checking out our advertisers all of which greatly helps support RCNT.
I think that pretty much everything that comes to mind that I'd like to share with everyone, if anything else comes to mind or changes I'll be sure to post it. If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask.
-Michael
Supporting RCNT...
=======================
This is in regards to this thread.
In this thread I'm going to try to best explain the changes that are going on here around RCNT as well as why.
RCNT Gallery:
There have been only minor changes to the image gallery, mainly in regards to file sizes but also with the use of the gallery.
1. Regular members now have a file storage of 768KB, this is only slightly smaller then previous. This change has been made mainly due to the reason that RCNT has been growing in size by leaps and bounds. We average about 250-300 new members each month, and that AFTER I delete the accounts that are not activated within 10days. So to continue allowing new members space for R/C images we had reduce the storage size of each member.
Along with that regular members now have a file upload size of 70KB. Before the upload size was 1MB, before the gallery had many images that where 1MB or just as big in size. Files of this size kill the server, not only in bandwidth but speed as well. Most html experts recommend images to be no longer then 30KB, however our limit here is 70KB.
2. Contributing Members has also been slightly effected by these changes, in the past contributing members have had a file upload limit size as big as their storage space (8MB), the new file upload size is now 100KB - your storage is still 8MB
Forum Sponsors:
1. There has been a new forum added which is located the RCNT Lounge and the Market Place. It's been asked and suggested by both members and manufactures that a "Manufactures" forum be added, and so now it has. These forums will allows reps from various different companies relating to the R/C community to discuss their products and company in general.
Member will find this beneficial in the fact they can talk directly to company reps to get any info they need about a particular product or products that company produces.
Manufactures and Retailers will find a forum like this beneficial for them as well. They now have direct access to thousands of members to which they can advertise their products to. Last month alone RCNT had over 99,000 visits!
Dedicated Server:
This has been the huge topic for the last couple of days. As one member already put it "RCNT is a victim of its own success!" For the last three or four months now RCNT has had to upgrade it's hosting plan, just to upgrade again the next month. Last month RCNT had over 7million hits to the site and more then 48GB of bandwidth used up. It's now becoming normal to see 60-70 people logged on at anytime during 10am-1am. Because of the increase growth the server has also become slower the only way to improve this problem and to get rid of the bandwidth worries for a long time to come would be to move up to a dedicated server - one just for RCNT. While we are taking steps to help decrease the bandwidth usage, there is no doubt that RCNT will be needing it's very own server more likely sooner then any later. We are exploring our options including our current host, nothing has been set in stone yet and we will let everyone know as soon as a decision has been made, until then all I can ask is to keep clicking the banners, checking out our advertisers all of which greatly helps support RCNT.
I think that pretty much everything that comes to mind that I'd like to share with everyone, if anything else comes to mind or changes I'll be sure to post it. If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask.
-Michael
what about when i got like some "change" in my paypal account, like a dollar or less. can i send that to ur paypal account?
