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If Anandtech forums dies.. where does the community prefer to move to?

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What is preferable as a backup location for the AT community?

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Reddit and social media has it's place but it's a crap replacement for an actual forum. It could act as a temporary place though until something is figured out.
 
Peak ATOT died a long time ago. Used to be new posts with original content here every 2 minutes and it was a thriving community. Heavy handed moderation killed it and people moved on. It's a shell of what it was.
 
AMCRambler said:
Peak ATOT died a long time ago. Used to be new posts with original content here every 2 minutes and it was a thriving community. Heavy handed moderation killed it and people moved on. It's a shell of what it was.
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I remember those times and it was fun if not a bit chaotic at times. That was also a time when most non technical conversations happened in Off Topic before the creation of sub forums. Compared to then, traffic has definitely slowed but even after 25+ years people still come and discuss things.

As Axel Rose once said, "Where do we go? Ahhh where do we go now? Aye, aye, aye..."
 
Not sure how much Future is paying but a forum this size only really needs a single server, don't need anything fancy. Something in the <$200/mo ballpark would do fine. Even low $100. The one my forum is hosted on is through Soyoustart which is the discount line of OVH, and I pay under $100. It hosts a bunch of other sites too, including one that hits the server pretty heavily as it runs a poller application that does lot of disk IO. For this forum if setting up from scratch it would maybe make sense to go a little higher end.

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The first option for $120/mo would probably be more than enough. So figure about $140/mo after taxes etc.

Storage might be the tricky bit, as leased servers in that price range tend to not really give you much storage (only a few TB) but they do have options with more storage into more expensive territory like $300+.

Restricting attachments or even not even allowing them in first place could go a long way to reduce storage needs though.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Not sure how much Future is paying but a forum this size only really needs a single server, don't need anything fancy. Something in the <$200/mo ballpark would do fine. Even low $100. The one my forum is hosted on is through Soyoustart which is the discount line of OVH, and I pay under $100. It hosts a bunch of other sites too, including one that hits the server pretty heavily as it runs a poller application that does lot of disk IO. For this forum if setting up from scratch it would maybe make sense to go a little higher end.
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Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
 
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Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
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Good info thanks.

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MrDudeMan said:
Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
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I dunno man. Hfboards has times when they are overloaded when there is a big new event. There is also a Washington Commanders board I am a part of. The owner was literally going to pull the plug a few years ago, then he asked the community if we were interested in some "donate and become a part owner model" So I pay 10 dollars a month, and I think there are at least the other people, so that would be about $100, and that board is MUCH less active than this one.
 
MrDudeMan said:
Those prices are significantly higher than they should be. I run multiple servers on AWS for the mobile games I released for < $30 per month, and that's with bells and whistles a forum doesn't need. Deploying a forum on AWS takes no time or effort. Storage is a non-issue with S3 as the repository. Not that it matters because most likely no one will pay in the end, but the price could come down a little.
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I suppose cloud could work, just need to watch if there is a sudden influx in traffic/cpu usage etc or any weird event (Ex: DDoS) as it can cause a huge bill. A dedicated server is your own bare metal box to yourself so it does tend to have a higher base price, but you don't have to worry about price influxes based on resource usage.

AWS would have redundancy though so that would be a plus. A whole DC can go down and the service should stay up.
 
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