Author Topic: Catholic Answers beggar letter (Read 5752 times)

MConstantine · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2012, 10:28:32 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

A dedicated server costs between $174 and $374 a month.

http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated

Intel Xeon 3470+ (Quad Core)
8 GB DDR3 Memory
2 X 500 GB Hard Drives
10 TB Bandwidth
5 Dedicated IPs
FREE cPanel

You could run ANY website, no matter how high the traffic, on one of those servers.

So a drop-dead awesome dedicated server costs $374 a month -- where are they spending the other $11,626?

Maybe they're suffering from the same problems the local N.O. diocese is?

Those lawsuits can get expensive.

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #16 on:** June 04, 2012, 06:20:13 PM »

As someone who uses a free forum host for their forum (InvisionFree), I most certainly couldn't imagine spending 12,000 to keep my forum up! That is ridiculous.

Not to mention that CAF is not worth that kind of money. If I were to ever buy an existing forum, I wouldn't pay a penny to buy CAF, much less 12,000.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2015, 12:39:26 PM »

Quote from: stevusmagnus (Jun 2, 2012, 1:26 am)

Quote from: CAF (n.d.)
Won't you help keep this important outreach going?  Please make your most generous donation today and help us reach our $75,000 goal so that we can keep Catholic Answers Forums up and running for the next six months.

What are they doing wrong that they need $150k a year to run a message board?  [....]  Do they pay Thomas Casey [$]50k a year to ban Trads.. I mean "moderate" .. the forum?

None of the staff that benefits from the egregious begging by CA has yet figured out that incompetent archiving at <http://www.catholic.com/> would explain why broken links have persisted in tables-of-contents of some on-line issues of This Rock.  I discovered (probably back in 2012) that replacing "www" by "archive" in some URLs, i.e., to <http://archive.catholic.com/[....]>, made some CA pages accessible again

.  Or if any of their staff has figured it out, no one among them has fixed it yet! 

I'll consider accepting a computing-consulting fee from CA, but I won't hold my breath: I've learned, in other fields of activism, that lawyers insist on being paid for their work, while arrogantly expecting to receive for free the products of extensive work by nonlawyer experts.

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Note *: Notably a 1996 'Dragnet' column by Keating in which I was surprised--how naïve!--to read his hostility toward SSPX.

Charlemagne · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2015, 01:55:34 PM »

This is one beggar that I'll let "starve to death" gladly!

clarkaim · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2015, 10:07:53 AM »

Charles Coulombe told me once you could tell "it weas Catholic. the sermons are boring and they are always asking for money - 'behold the buck of the priest, mystically 'transubstantiated from my dollar into his'"

Donato · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2015, 01:42:51 AM »

Good. I hope that modernist radio station and all its modernist hosts go away forever.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:27:36 AM »

Quote from: Matthew

A dedicated server costs between $174 and $374 a month.

http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated

Intel Xeon 3470+ (Quad Core)
8 GB DDR3 Memory
2 X 500 GB Hard Drives
10 TB Bandwidth
5 Dedicated IPs
FREE cPanel

You could run ANY website, no matter how high the traffic, on one of those servers.

So a drop-dead awesome dedicated server costs $374 a month -- where are they spending the other $11,626?

I have a dual core 8MB cloud server with 5TB bandwidth and 5IPs (running Windows no less) for $62 per month. And it's a cloud so I can up the horsepower on demand.

You could get a very beefy server (4 core 7GB RAM) on Microsoft Azure with load balancing and geographic redundancy and MS SQL Server for about $400 per month.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2015, 06:29:52 AM »

vBulletin offers a cloud service for forums that includes all the software, free upgrades, free maintenance, etc. starting at $20 per month ... and the $20 offers very good performance. You just point your DNS entries to it, configure it as you wish through the admin tool, and you're off and running.

Matthew · « **Reply #23 on:** July 09, 2015, 08:46:12 AM »

What's up with the necro-bump?

This thread is years-old.

Die, zombie!

(I'm locking this thread)