Category: News

Published on Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Written by y(oYo)

Dear friends, I'm very glad having choosen OVH for hosting NintAndBox website.
But why may you ask? Because they did a nice lifting on their hosting offers, so now for the same price NintAndBox takes advantage of useful technical improvements.

The first improvement you are directly concerned about is disk space, since we are moving from 25GB to 100GB, neat!
Since I added cool features such as "Download in A3" for game boxes and "Download for printing purpose" for manuals, disk space requirements have reached about 22Go rapidly. What you may not know, is that every time you are using these features, a counterpart zip file is created and stored in cache for the following members.

This new offer from OVH is a breath of oxygen, which will allow us to continue moving quietly the rest of OldiesCovers files.

In addition, PHP upgrades from version 5.2 to version 5.3.

The latest improvement will please our friends in America, since the website is now (automatically) redundant twice in Europe (Paris and Frankfurt), and once in North America (Newark , East Coast).
That means better response time on the overall website for all visitors in this part of the world!

I just got charged the tremendous fee of 28.66 Euros to renew NintAndBox hosting for 2014.

For your information, in 2013 :

Expenses

Hosting costs: 28.56 Euros
Domain name costs: 12,85 Euros
Advertising costs (french magazine "Retro Vers Le Futur"): 100 Euros

Revenues

Google AdSense advertising: 65.62 Euros
Donations from members (estimated amount): 38 Euros

Results

37.79 Euros spent

I think the figures speak for themselves, for those who are wondering what is the business plan of the website, I would say that my passion remains my main salary :)
Please remember that if you like the website, do not hesitate to make a small donation in the "Contribute" top menu, it's always good for my motivation ;)

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