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Hi, sir noddy. When it comes to speed I would recommend waiting a day or so to see if it is a fluke. Sometimes the slow speed is only temporary, sometimes it can even have something to do with your ISP, or something along the route acting up. I embarrassed myself only the other day by complaining publicly about the terrible speed of a site (Nubiles) and then found out after we did some extensive testing that the problem started at my end. The facts were incontrovertible, yet I downloaded from different sites on the same day without a problem and my speed tests came out okay. One of those inexplicable Internet things. :-( Don't get too discouraged, tomorrow might see a startling improvement. I've been a member of Videosz at various times and never had any problems with them. If things don't improve, by all means yell at them some more for the benefit of all of us! :-)
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10-20-11 02:12pm
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anyonebutme (0)
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A 20mbit connection running 24/7 for a full month racks up about $300 in hosting charges. Of course it varies depending on provider and amount of traffic amongst all users.
I'm not joking about hosting costs in that price range.
When they charge $18 for a 1 month subscription, with half of that price eaten up in referral fees, and another 15% in billing processing - there is a reason why you don't get full speed all the time.
To answer your question of when these "dinosaur sites" will drag themselves into the 21st century, it will be when you offer to pay $300/month for a subscription. Until then, it's best to find a way to be happy with what they do provide for you.
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10-20-11 11:03pm
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rearadmiral (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - anyonebutme :
Sorry to impose on you, but I have no idea about this stuff and wonder if you could give a bit more detail.
I understand that a site has to buy bandwidth to deliver files to customers, and I understand that can be expensive, but I'm wondering what a more normal usage would cost a site. Say I join a site and in a month I download 250GB. What would a ballpark cost for the site be on that? I've often wondered if by taking a one month membership and downloading a lot of material (like most people do I suspect) whether the site is making much money off of that. I hope that most of them are, because by making money they make more porn. What are your thoughts on that?
And what are referral fees? I always enter a site through TBP/PU and assume that TBP/PU gets a bit of a kickback but I assumed it would be in the cents. What would cause referral fees to be more expensive? Any thoughts on how I as a member on a site can keep referral fees down for the site or are they unavoidable?
I'd certainly appreciate your thoughts on this because I don't know that the topic has ever come up here before.
Thanks!
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10-22-11 11:53am
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jd1961 (0)
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REPLY TO #2 - anyonebutme :
Ridiculous reply.
Videosz should go out of business if they can't handle the traffic.
I'm currently a member at Action Jav, a huge library. 1.5 MB/s all day long, day after day.
I'm also a member currently here.
As usual, the speed sucks.
But, just load it up into JDownloader, and do something else.
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11-19-11 06:22pm
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anyonebutme (0)
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REPLY TO #4 - jd1961 :
For a site with as much traffic as videoz, they are making use of cloud computing, having their site spread amongst many data centers. Most services don't advertise prices, Amazon's cloud services do:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Do the math with their numbers. And question if other services are going to give cheaper or more expensive rates to porn sites? All you have proven is that Action Jav has other subscribers who are not maxing out the bandwidth 24/7 for the full month.
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11-20-11 10:31pm
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