Soooooooooooo Sad!! Guru3d Giving Up

[Bozo Galora]

Damn, I'm gonna miss this site. All those utilities in one place.

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The End
December 14, 2001
The End - Hilbert Hagedoorn @ 17:31

Dear visitor,

After working over 5 years on this site I have decided to throw in the white towel, Guru3D.com will cease to exist after upcoming Monday.

Let me explain my motivation and reasons. Last Thursday we got a letter from our current host Playnet. This company had decided to boot all their affiliates due to the current state of the Internet. This has happened often to us. The internet is a hard place, however I'm used to that.

The past 12 months Guru3D.com took of from 500.000 pageviews to 5 million pageviews monthly. Prognosis for December 2001 was almost 7 million pageviews. Something I'm extremely proud of. Let's face it, if that many content is being read I must be doing something right.

However, I'm tired .. tired of switching to new servers constantly, tired of seeking new hosts and mostly tired of working on the site constantly. Being chief editor on a site like Guru3D.com is basically a one man operation when it comes to content. 90% of the workload is being done by me. I have a normal daytime job, the past two years my day starts at 05:15 each morning and starts with the site, when I return from the normal job I continue with the site, usually I stop at 20:00, that's 75 hours a week excluding the weekends which I mostly used to write up articles and do research on new products which then totals in 85+ hours of work weekly.

I'm getting my normal life back before it's too late, in return I'll have to disband my greatest passion for well over five years. Please, do not blame this on Playnet, the fact that they give their affiliates a 5 day notice to move out is of course ridiculous. But for over a year they have given us everything we needed to do our thing, with no strings attached. In fact it's just sad that such a company with such potential is going down.

With this letter I want to thank each and every one of you for visiting this site, I thank all editors, webmasters, manufacturers, advertisers, networks, affiliates and most of all all the people I knew personally especially the ones in that wicked forum of ours, you know who you are .. I love you people.

I'm honestly writing this letter with tears in my eyes, please don't try to contact me as this will make my decision only harder and I'm having such a very difficult time with it as it is already. Please respect this last wish.

Thank you so much ...

Hilbert Hagedoorn

 

[Bozo Galora]

BWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bjc112]

thats ashame, that is a great site, but you can't blame him is he is pulling 90% of the load on a big site like that

 

[ChrisOh]

man, that site's been with us forever... its sad to see sites fall like this.

RIP Guru3D

 

[Maggotry]

 

[RSI]

Damn!

Why doesn't someone else take over the site?

-RSI

 

[Adul]

 

[Sunner]

Seems like many of the great sites out there are dropping like flies these days...

 

[gogeeta13]

Seeing as how I have been with two large tech sites(i will keep them un-named). Making a server move suckes, especially when you don't have the money to pay for a better host. Current ad pay is about 1/40th(usually less) than what it used to be. Even with 7million hits a month, I bet he was just barely breaking even. With the amount of files he was hosting, I am sure he was serving 100's and 100's of gigs a month of files.

This is nothing new, sharky(from sharky extreme) had this happen to him as well. It sucks, but until this whole economy pics up, there is no money for well paying banners,etc.

RIP

 

[gogeeta13]

<< Damn!

Why doesn't someone else take over the site?

-RSI >>



Many sites have sold out to UGO or internet.com

The problem is, you can end up selling your name, and all your content, and all your reponsibility, but still end up being the one writting the articles and posting news.

This will continue to happen, unless ad rates go up, or we all accept pop-ups(the only well paying ads)

 

[Darkhawk28]

I can understand him wanting to return to a normal life. Sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward. I wish him lots of luck.

 

[grifterspawn]

Giving up? What choice does he have? He probably eats MASSIVE bandwidth! Finding a new server and trying to make up the ad money is going to be tough, maybe when the economy picks up we'll see them again in a year, but more than likely the crew will disband to various other sites. Oh well, another one bites the dust (I'd rather see icrontic go down than guru3d anyday).

 

[darth maul]

Couldn't a site like Anand's or FS do an afiliation (sp?) with the guru? They host his site under their banner and he keeps pumping us the scoop on everything 3d (especially those nvidia drivers). Man its just to bad we lose a very resourceful site, just wish we could make it happen so it didn't go away.

 

[billyjak]

I empithize with your decision, It's alright though, I worked like that for about 7 years at a restaurant when my parents first started.
75-100 hours a week, and missed everything that was going on, especially my family.
Best of luck to you, I visited frequently.
You'll get over it in a short while, maybe later on you could get a partner or someone to help out if you still feel the urge.
Don't feel bad you gave us what we needed for years and we all thank you for that.

 

[AGodspeed]

OMG, this is really sad. Guru3d was one of the first sites I went to for video card reviews and basically anything graphics related. I'm really sad to see this site go, as Hilbert clearly put so much time and effort into his articles.

I will miss this site.

 

[Agent004]

darth maul:



<< Couldn't a site like Anand's or FS do an afiliation (sp?) with the guru? They host his site under their banner and he keeps pumping us the scoop on everything 3d (especially those nvidia drivers). Man its just to bad we lose a very resourceful site, just wish we could make it happen so it didn't go away. >>



That's what the subscriber forums are for, you see the main site isn't generating enough revenue to be sustainable.

Guru3d is only one which really look into drivers as well, damn I will miss it badly. That's going to place even more constraints on the existing all-in-one sites (for me, voodoo files comes to mind).

The sites are not going to be back for at least a year and half, due to the way the current economy is handled.

 

[Jeff7]

OMG, no! They've got so many useful things there! Rivatuner, GeforceTweak; drivers, that BIOS collection.
I prefer Rivatuner to NVMax. It has many more options for tweaking.