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We avoided Cafepress from the beginning because of past quality issues that Tim and I had both experienced with their products. We made the decision that we did not want to potentially sacrifice the quality of our merchandise for the ease of ordering that Cafepress offers.
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Thats fine...then setup preorders & buy very few extras...if you don't get enough preorders don't order...that simple...if theres only a 50/50 chance you'll get your money back on whats purchased don't do it...from what I hear there are still T shirts left over & yet hoodies get ordered & then theres whining about "we don't have enough money to support the site" BS bad business decisions are costing money you don't have is what its coming down to.
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Bandwidth is of very little concern to us. Most hosting packages that are out there have more than enough to support three or four sites our size. Running a message forum with anywhere from 50-75+ members on at any given time uses a lot of system resources (both CPU and RAM), and using a host like the one that your website is on would cause the site to be shut down for over-utilizing system resources every other day. You may remember that happening to us more than once near the end of our initial two year contract with our first hosting company. We had more than outgrown a shared hosting solution, and needed to find either a dedicated server, or a virtual private server to meet the website's needs.
If you can find a host that offers either a dedicated server or a virtual private server, and gets quality reviews similar or better to our host (Knownhost) for less than ~$400 per year, please, by all means, let me know.
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point taken, I'll ask around though...im still a mod on some sites that have a good amount of traffic
a few other notes
a. bubba428-chill out you went off on Tsar for no obvious reason other then seeing bubba in his post...otherwise it might be time to change your SN
b. I really don't have a problem with conforming to any new rules...honestly I don't even know what they are, but new rules = change for some which most people don't deal with well especially on a "public" forum. I will say moderate their posts & if they don't then ban them...temporary or otherwise.
c. Stupid threads should be dealt with similarly to threads with personal attacks or cursing and you guys all know the recent threads that are popping up that im talking about.
d. I had a few other points but Im old & forgot the rest of them...besides my head hurts from just reading through all the pages of bickering about the new rules.
Good luck guys...hopefully it will all work itself out in the end.