Public entry: Important StargateCaps.com News
Hey everyone!
This is to let everyone in the Stargate community out there that StargateCaps.com is in danger of being closed.
No no, I'm not in any legal trouble, but the problem is with the number of hits the site is getting a month. Right now it is 23 days into the month of the plan and I am already over 11 million hits! This is already at a cost of $105 a month. I just can't handle the expense of the website any longer. The site used to receive donations on a regular basis but now the site rarely gets any donations.
I know that a lot of these hits are from people hotlinking my pictures from various forums and other places around the net and while I know you can disable hotlinking, it would take an immense amount of work to disable this the way the site is setup already. Frankly, I trusted people to not hotlink with free photo hosting sites out there and obviously, most people didn't care and just went ahead and took advantage of the site's content.
So as of now, the website is going to be turned off at the end of May. If you want pictures now, you might want to grab them. I may do requests for certain seasons or leave the current SGA season (4) and the SG-1 movies online but it depends on what kind of support/donations I can get for this site.
I know many have complained that I haven't updated the site in months, but the main reason for that was the number of hits issue. I couldn't afford to go over anymore than already and I was hoping that it would level out. But it hasn't and I can't do it anymore. I'm in college and I can't afford to spend the amount of money the site is costing me any longer.
I plan on sending out a poll for the group to see what they might want the most online but unless I get some donations to help out with the costs, it's all probably go to be shut off at the end of the month.
I'm sorry to have to do this because I know how much people enjoy the site and I know I've put many hours of work into it, but real life wins out when it comes to financials.
This is to let everyone in the Stargate community out there that StargateCaps.com is in danger of being closed.
No no, I'm not in any legal trouble, but the problem is with the number of hits the site is getting a month. Right now it is 23 days into the month of the plan and I am already over 11 million hits! This is already at a cost of $105 a month. I just can't handle the expense of the website any longer. The site used to receive donations on a regular basis but now the site rarely gets any donations.
I know that a lot of these hits are from people hotlinking my pictures from various forums and other places around the net and while I know you can disable hotlinking, it would take an immense amount of work to disable this the way the site is setup already. Frankly, I trusted people to not hotlink with free photo hosting sites out there and obviously, most people didn't care and just went ahead and took advantage of the site's content.
So as of now, the website is going to be turned off at the end of May. If you want pictures now, you might want to grab them. I may do requests for certain seasons or leave the current SGA season (4) and the SG-1 movies online but it depends on what kind of support/donations I can get for this site.
I know many have complained that I haven't updated the site in months, but the main reason for that was the number of hits issue. I couldn't afford to go over anymore than already and I was hoping that it would level out. But it hasn't and I can't do it anymore. I'm in college and I can't afford to spend the amount of money the site is costing me any longer.
I plan on sending out a poll for the group to see what they might want the most online but unless I get some donations to help out with the costs, it's all probably go to be shut off at the end of the month.
I'm sorry to have to do this because I know how much people enjoy the site and I know I've put many hours of work into it, but real life wins out when it comes to financials.