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Geek Culture / Banshee Studios Appeal

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NickIgoe
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Posted: 13th Nov 2003 23:27
Over the last couple of days BansheeStudios.com has been visted by over 56000 people. we are currently half a terrabyte over our bandwidth limit.We are desperatly seeking a sponsor to help keep our site open and to continue our freeware policy. Today the total amount of downloads to asteroids has cost us more than what we earnt at work today, If anyone can help please get in touch and help us keep our games free to all.

Nick Igoe
Northern Fist
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 01:12
Well, you realize that you aren't gonna get anywhere mooning all of us - sheesh...

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lagmaster
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 01:16
500gb in bandwidth?

i doubt that

why not plonk them adverts that gives you money when so many people visit your site.

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Ian T
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 02:20
Get an advert plan .

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Fallout
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 02:25
And find some sponsors to add and ad to the intro of asteroids. That's gotta be worth a lot seeing as people will see it every time the game loads.

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UnderLord
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 03:24
thats sad to hear....kinda i hope you guys don't need to shut down =\

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Elleomea
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 03:33
Why not try and get it hosted by some sites such as Tucows and FilePlanet, then you can simply direct people to them rather than hosting the file yourself?

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Ermes
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 09:29
Elleomea has a good idea Igoe.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 11:44
Or you could submit your games to our showcase in which case we'd host them for you (and you can then link to our download pages).

Cheers,

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Preston C
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 13:35
Or in your high bandwidth state, you can forward all trafic to my site


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Yian
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 16:57
Why don't you just make loads of mirrors?

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CattleRustler
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 17:13
I want to see your asteroids game - can i get it anywhere?

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NickIgoe
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 19:05
We hopefully will be back up again soon. A Sponsor may have been found, I can`t give away any details as yet. But we may be up by the start of next week. .Thanks for your support and ideas.

Northern_Fist: Yes some people do get this amount of traffic, Unfortunatly for us we were metioned on a few sites and we got hit all at once.

Nick Igoe
NickIgoe
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 19:09
OOOOOPPPPS really sorry Northern_Fist it should have been directed to the gut who sneezed as he typed his user name in (lagmasteruk). Once again really sorry.

Nick Igoe
Andy Igoe
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Posted: 15th Nov 2003 02:27
Well 500gb in two days would certainly be impressive for us, but if the bandwidth usage had carried on for the rest of the month yes we would have exceeded that by the 30th of November.

Nick and I took a 'client' down the pub tonight and have secured a deal that has ensured the long term surviveability of our website. It will be a few days until the site is back up because we need to release the domain name from the current hosts.

The deal works for us because our client does not want excessive advertising plastered all over our site and our games just as much as we dont want to put them there. I've always said that I want to avoid adverts and flashing banners on the Banshee page, and I intend to keep delivering on that promise.

We will in time place a small discreet advert for them next to the download buttons for our games, and that will be sufficient for them and we feel that is a small price to pay. We're also slapping their name onto our race suites as we're relaunching our kart team next season, but as they're already plastered with sponsors in our total sell-out approach to racing we dont mind that at all


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