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After two years, we turned two on September 24, 2006, we've finally grown to the point where we needed to move of a shared webserver. I'm not sure if you can tell it, but the site should be loading faster you as I have noticed an increased speed for myself.
Over the next couple weeks, I'll be tweaking the site trying to make it even faster and hopefully we'll be able to stay here for several years to come unless we experience even larger growth than we already have.
With the move to the dedicated server comes increased costs to maintain the site. The server that we're currently on costs us $125/month, which is nearly $75 more monthly than what we were charged on the shared server. Currently, our main income for the site is through the $10-a-year Varsity Club membership program, which we've averaged about 4-5 members per month over the course of the year.
While we strive to continue to bring IrishEnvy.com to the masses for FREE, we do ask that you help us out in any way possible by visiting our advertisers. For instance, for those of you that like to shop on eBay, if you visit through the links on our site, we generally earn 5-10 cents per auction won. I know it doesn't sound like much, but every bit helps and will allow for us to continue giving away cool Notre Dame swag and burning the midnight oil to bring you up-to-date Notre Dame information.
We'd like to take this time to open the floor and ask you, our customers, what we can do better. As some of you have seen, we've recently begun undertaking the Notre Dame Historical Statistics Project, which we plan on being the most comprehensive Notre Dame statistical resource on the Internet when everything is said and done.
So if you have a suggestion, a comment, criticism, whatever... please take a couple minutes and give us your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to read this and Go Irish!
Over the next couple weeks, I'll be tweaking the site trying to make it even faster and hopefully we'll be able to stay here for several years to come unless we experience even larger growth than we already have.
With the move to the dedicated server comes increased costs to maintain the site. The server that we're currently on costs us $125/month, which is nearly $75 more monthly than what we were charged on the shared server. Currently, our main income for the site is through the $10-a-year Varsity Club membership program, which we've averaged about 4-5 members per month over the course of the year.
While we strive to continue to bring IrishEnvy.com to the masses for FREE, we do ask that you help us out in any way possible by visiting our advertisers. For instance, for those of you that like to shop on eBay, if you visit through the links on our site, we generally earn 5-10 cents per auction won. I know it doesn't sound like much, but every bit helps and will allow for us to continue giving away cool Notre Dame swag and burning the midnight oil to bring you up-to-date Notre Dame information.
We'd like to take this time to open the floor and ask you, our customers, what we can do better. As some of you have seen, we've recently begun undertaking the Notre Dame Historical Statistics Project, which we plan on being the most comprehensive Notre Dame statistical resource on the Internet when everything is said and done.
So if you have a suggestion, a comment, criticism, whatever... please take a couple minutes and give us your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to read this and Go Irish!
