well its been a long time since i posted and what i got to say is WHY!? are all ASIANS perverted....i mean i know america is perverted but we are america thats our excuse...whats theres and it can't be because there asian! anyway great to have it back at the expense of pictures...i say we make a backup site that HG doesn't pay for or we could donate but you always have a chance of exceeding bandwith or a site that is completly deticated to gifs and gifs only that way if HG losses anything he won't have to rebuild from scratch for the 4th? time
thats my plan and im sitcking to it!
Humans are perverted. Everyone has sexual desires, and their quantity varies from person to person.
To the rest of what you've said, I'm just going to have to extend a hearty, "Wait, whut?"
A backup site that I don't pay for?
Donations?
About having to rebuild galleries; if the gif gallery ever gets resurrected a third time it'll be after I've installed the latest version of Coppermine. The latest version has a feature that lets you shut down individual galleries and even lets you control what usergroups have access to which galleries. The reason why I haven't considered implementing something like that until now is because, well, the latest version of Coppermine just came out.
I like the idea of a website dedicated to Viper gifs, except that there'd be a catch; a site like that would require tantamount amounts of bandwidth. From experience and not factoring growth, I'd say a site like that would require at least 248 GB of bandwidth each month to stay afloat. Because of the large amount of upkeep and the cost of bandwidth, I think I could only do something like that if I had a large amount of money for an initial investment and an advertising program powerful enough to pay for the expensive bandwidth costs. Or I could just get my own server and not have to pay bandwidth fees. I think I'll try getting my own server after learning how to manage one. That'll probably happen in three years or less.
You ever consider blocking out .hk and .zh domains? Or at the very least, prevent them access to the galleries.
That might work.
I'm a little sketchy on how I'd go about doing this.
