With a community as active as this we need a powerful hosting platform because even though bandwidth is something we use a lot it's not a worry, what is though is CPU resources and PHP and especially MySQL take a huge hit on these. I don't know the traffic your community gets but what happens here is people check a certain section often (with the TDU2 section afterwards) and open and view several threads and attachments, they don't enter a thread and read taking some ease off the server no it's constant especially at our peak hours between 4 and 9/10PM GMT.
Very true, TDU modding has grown at an exponential rate and I'm happy to say we were very much involved in that, however this brings it's own problems with the amount of people who come to us for this solely compared to genuine members who enjoy the mods but also stick for the insanity that we are scarily well known for.
GOAT WASHING!!! :D
Making friends from those who don't participate isn't going to be a problem anyway is it? It's fine for these people who don't bother, they come and go and if we were to go then they would just find somewhere else. However those who come, join and stick around are going to feel a slight loss if we were to go and do their best to keep us around and for that we couldn't be any more grateful and if things do go as we intend then these people will be well remembered for all their selfless and amazingly generous contributions not only in support but also in how they support and are fully active within the forums themself.
Don't worry about it mate you have more than given your fair share of support to us and we're always ecstatic to have original and long running members with us still to this day!
Thank you and it's a common misconception that people believe you have to have Paypal in order to use it, this is not true, all you need is your card.
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Anyway guys please keep it civil and remember that with popularity comes more burden, we started out small, we grew due to our activity on TDU itself and then things just started to keep growing. When modding started to occur that's when it went nuts and I fret on an almost daily basis due to the fact that we are here at this point without any official mention of the next Test Drive. What's going to happen when that eventually happens next Friday ...oops (j/k) who knows!
So come on Who tell us what will happen?! :nuts: