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Respect The Site, Donate

VCDQUALITY needs donations of some type to keep the site going. For the past several months X69 has put countless hours into making this site please us all.. We need to respect that and help make this work.

On the main page @ the bottom of the left menu, you'll find a donate link. Please go there and help a buddy out.

If you have any other suggestions BESIDES Sponsor ads, please suggest em here.

THnx
Peace
-LG

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Thanks Lord Gandalf, I've said since day one that I'd try and keep the site up as long as possible without big annoying banner ads or popups or anything..

I'm going through some finiancial problems right now and I dont think I'm going to be able to afford the to keep the site up for much longer unless It starts atleast paying for part of itself..

I figured out today that if 1 out of every 100 visitors to the site would donate $1 to me it would pay for over half of my hosting bill each month.

I really dont want to have to put banners up.. but if by the end of the month I still dont have any donations then I'll be forced to put up annoying banner ads..
Thanks guys
-X69

Just bumpin this thread back to the top! Read it plz~

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a banner wouldnt be too bad... pop-ups are the worst... but if you put banners and pop-ups on the site I'll keep coming. If I had a credit card I'd donate but I dont have one

i've made it a sticky, you have access to do that if u need to Gandalf.

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If i had a working visa card (the one i have only works in norway) i would dontate 1$..

But if banners is what this site needs to keep alive, then banners it is..

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heh.. i donated $5 for ya!

i thought i would donate $5 since i use the site pretty much everyday, i check the quality on the rls'es to help me decide whether to d/l or not.. anyways... good luck

~CriTiKill~

you the man for donating!

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yeah a banner on the top wouldnt be so bad though!

i think we could all live with that.

Is there any way you could set up a NoChex account for donations as this is probably the most used online currency in the UK, and it's reasonably annonymous.

http://www.nochex.com/

It would make donations much easier to make....and you might even get a few quid off of me.

As a new visitor to the site, (I like it so far), I'll throw out some comments/feedback. I, personally, wouldn't mind a well placed banner ad or two, and/or a sidebar ad or two. I think you should definitely have a PayPal box, and maybe an Amazon wishlist for people who want to contribute.

I work in web development, and in general, people who just pop in randomly (from a search engine or other link) won't donate anything, unless the found something particularly useful, such as tutorial that just couldn't find anywhere else or something. Websurfers these days are aware that useful sites cost money, and are willing to put up with ads, as long the ads don't drown out the content (or slow the page down to a crawl).

Some no-no's that I would suggest avoiding like the plague:
- pop-ups, pop-unders
- shockwave/flash animations
- porn ads
- annoying flashy animatd gifs

If you do put ads up, try to set the image size attributes, so that the rest of the page can render while the image is downloading. It can really annoy visitors when your page is held up because an ad-server isn't responding. Without image size attributes, the browser has to wait for the ad (or the server timeout) to render the rest of the page.

I hope you can pull it off, the design is really nice, and I think there's a lot of relevant ad material you could put in that would fit in without taking anything away from your content (CD burners, DVD's, audio-video equipment, and other things that visitors like myself are interested in anyway).

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Latka;
Just my opinion, which, like all opinions, should be taken with grain of salt.

Paypal pays you 5 bucks just for signing up for an account lets all sign up and send vcdquality a couple bucks k?

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Originally posted by cornflake
Paypal pays you 5 bucks just for signing up for an account lets all sign up and send vcdquality a couple bucks k?

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Seriously...banners are nothing. Hell I'm surprised you don't have any right now, every damn site these days has at least a couple.

How much BW do you need hosting monthly? And how much server space do you need? I might be able to host you for ALOT cheaper then the $200 your paying now. Just need to know those 2 things...

Montly BW:

Server Size:

we use between 7 and 12 gigs a day and the server would have to be pretty decent.. on avg i'm serving up 50 web requests/sec with 3+ million requests/day..

Donation

Learnt Alot of the scene already from this site ,so once i check how anonymous Pay pal Ill be Donating £10 and dont worry im not buying any favours just helping out a very good informative site .Laterz

You should have asked for favors.... Sexual favors

...That was totally uncalled for, I'm sorry.

Lol

The thought did cross my mind ...LOL

Hmm... I could go for some sexual favors.. heh
-X69