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Subject: Re: question for the forum ... we need your input

Date: Thu 02/02/06 14:29:01 GMT

Name: AL'eau

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I don't like pay site, mainly because I can't spend money on them (I'm preparing our wedding for this sumer and my Girl Friend will not appreciate if our money go away for such thing).

By the way, even if the webshot solution is not a bad idea, there is 2 others solutions :

* use P2P (it's free and very conveignant),

* create your own web site ! I have about 9000 photos on my own web site (nothing to do w/ wetlook) for about 900MB. If I have to own a professional hosting, it will be very expensive.

So, I have installed on one of my old machine an Apache server and it serves my site.

Adventage : no cota, totaly free to put what I want on it !

The only drawback is I'm connected to ADSL so my uplaod is "only" 1Mb/s

I don't think it's enough for "new" photoset as many user will want to connect at the same time (in this case webshot is a great thing), but it's a good idea for archiving your old sets.

AL'eau

PS: Being a system engeneer should help, obviously ;-D

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question for the forum ... we need your input

By Todd and Jennifer - tdouty@yahoo.com Tue 31/01/06 07:34:39 GMT

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Jennifer and I have a question for the forum. We're not sure how long Webshots will let us keep creating new user accounts to store our pictures ... and maybe rightly so that they don't allow it. We like the idea of having all our pictures in one place so a website would really be nice. I have a site ready to put up, but there are fees involved with putting up a site. It would cost probably $200/year for the domain name and bandwidth (just a rough estimate). We could:

- just keep going with what we have been doing and use Webshots taking the chances that one day they'll shut us off

- set up a member site. To be quite honest, this is what we have been planning and have a few picture sets ready for it. We've discovered that ccbill will require a lot of money up front because of being a "high risk" business. A website would make us some money, but might take the fun out of the whole thing because regular updates are a must when you have paying members. This would be a full-fledged business, complete with tax write-offs and consequences.

- set up a "pay per picture set" site to offset the cost of the site. In this scenario, we'd post previews of the set and then take payments in the form of money orders or paypal. When we get payment, we'd email out a zip file of the pictures.

- set up a website and pay for the domain and bandwidth and ask for donations each year to cover the cost of the site. We'd keep pestering the community for money via paypal or money order payments until we got enough to cover the cost of keeping the site up. This wouldn't make us any money unless people wanted to make donations, but would keep the site up and running and have all our pictures in one place.

So, what are your thoughts? As we said, we have everything ready for a membership site, but it's beginning to look like it's much more than we'd like to get into. It involves setting up accounts with ccbill or some other ecommerce site, web hosting and domain name setup and keeping the busines separate from our other funds for tax purposes. When it gets to involved, the fun isn't there anymore because it's like a job where it has to be done to keep things running.

Oh by the way, we just received a nice dress last night from a friend of the forum and it's about to be dunked! Can't wait to see this one!! We'll let you know who you can thank in a few days.

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