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Site: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding
Nuke CopsThis site came online back just a few short months ago and we have establish strong ties with the entire Nuke community. It is an amazing history we have experienced in such short a time. However, due to our rapid growth and public trust in us, we're in need of funding to help offset the continual loss of monies from running this site, and our sister: Computer Cops.

We're in a position at CI Host to upgrade our current Dedicated 1 package from 100 GB per month bandwidth (256 MB memory) to 1000 GB per month bandwidth (384 MB memory). However, another year contract is required at the expense of $300 per month. So far the donations have helped, but we're still in the red every month just maintaining the server.

The details on the packages can be found here:

CI Host

This brings the cost currently to $3600 per year. However, since this site seems to be gaining momentum very quickly now, I hope to step up to the Dedicated 2 plan that offers 512 MB memory and doubles the hard drive space for files and database storage. This now comes to $500 per month at a cost of $6000 for the new contract year.

I'm seeking angels to help offset the cost up front such that the site can continue to evolve as has been done from the start.

Currently our server also hosts Computer Cops which was the first venture to help the Security Community in general. It is now taking off very well at over 30,000 hits per day and broke 500,000 page views this month a week ago. Now we just reached over 4,000 registered members.

Another plan of mine is to mirror PacketStorm security while continuing as an official support forum for Firetrust and Proxomitron. That's where the 1,000 GB bandwidth comes in focus. However, Nuke Cops has turned into a global phenomenon and we've got plans galore for the future. So we need help.

Please contact me via this site using Private Messaging to "Zhen-Xjell". I would love to upgrade immediately.

My personal thanks to everyone who has been so supportive of my vision for the site. To everyone who has participated in the forums, helped to maintain and grow the site, those who advertise, and sent donations, you are the fabric of this site and the reason why I find it so enjoyable.

Thanks
Posted on Wednesday, May 28 @ 12:38:57 CEST by Zhen-Xjell
 
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Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ganast on Wednesday, May 28 @ 18:43:17 CEST
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You need to offer a service. I have purchased the "one month club membership" from FB several times. $10 is a small amount, and I get the code early... that's kindof a lame service, but I am willing to shell out for it. Enough said.

I host about 15 nuke sites. There are others here who host litterally hundreds. Why do we come to your site? Security.

Set up some sort of monitoring service, and we will pay $$$ every month. Like set up a script that checks a client's server and each of the submitted nuke installations for security problems, and charge $2/month for the server and $1/month for each site, with discounts over a certain number of sites. A lot of people will prepay by the month or the year. Way more than you will need to fund your site.

A sysadmin with one site will just install analyze.php, but someone with 15 sites would rather pay $10 or $15 bucks to have someone else email him the stats on his sites.

You can later expand this to analyze his apache, various ports, email or page the sysadmin if the site goes down or appears to be under some kind of attack, and you can charge for the addons when you make them!

Hello? Anti-virus software is almost the most lucritive type of software on the net... why not make us some hack-alert software? If you price it right, you will get a lot of customers... your hits speak for themselves.



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Imago on Thursday, May 29 @ 14:57:13 CEST
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With 500,000 pageviews I used to get $400 per month from www.sonar.com - the US division of Doubleclick.



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by jbsarma on Thursday, May 29 @ 18:06:41 CEST
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Nuke Cops got a total of about 1800 members. If you make an arrangement I am more than happy to pay $5-10/ and sure so will be hundreds of members if not all. So raising a couple of thousand at the minimum should not be a problem.



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Atoum on Thursday, May 29 @ 20:16:58 CEST
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I love the fisrt service-selling idea. The dls and everything remains free for all, so sticks 100% to GNU/OS. Automatisation, and that is only optional, not vital to anyone, gets paying. 100% normal, the service offered has nothing to do with GNU licence, we're talking about independant services requiring extra independent time/bandwodth resources from the site.

People seem to be waiting for this (not me I admit, host only one site so won't need it), so go for it!! And please please please please organise Freenuke working groups fast, so we can get it fast! :p I'd like to volunteer for the translations group.



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by dsnail2000 on Thursday, May 29 @ 22:37:06 CEST
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I am thinking a block that kept track of how much is given would help bring in more money. I created an example graphic to show very roughly what it might look like.. fundraiser picture [www.nukecops.com] NOTE: That isn't working code, just a picture of what working code "could" look like.



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by decker on Friday, May 30 @ 04:29:25 CEST
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Hi!

I'm willing to pay for the Forum XML and Downloads XML scripts!

Why not put em out for "sale" ?? =)

-decker-



Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by Zhen-Xjell on Friday, May 30 @ 10:41:42 CEST
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I'm digesting them all.



CafePress.com? (Score: 1)
by dsnail2000 on Saturday, May 31 @ 14:30:36 CEST
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Have you thought about a creating a store at CafePress.com? You can set up a shop for free and upload graphics that can be put on t-shirts, mugs, etc. They have a set base price and you decide what to charge above the base price and you get everything above the base price!

P.S. I would love to be able to get a coffee mug with the NukeCops logo on it!




Re: Nuke Cops Seeks Funding (Score: 1)
by ganast on Saturday, May 31 @ 19:12:48 CEST
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Thought of another one for paying for your server... check out the "sponsored by RackShack.net" icon on xaraya.com, and I know I have seen "Pair Networks" logos on various big Open Source project pages... That probably means big discounts... or maybe free servers... and I'm willing to bet you get more hits than xaraya.com does... for now anyway.

Ask your host to "sponsor" your server upgrade since a lot of your hits are from people who need hosting...

--gabe


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