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I’ve spent too many hours to count, over-analyzing the hell out of this situation, going back years. From the information that has been shared publicly and privately, I have reached my conclusion on the status of the site.
Here is the short version (because really, it is that is what it is - simple).
We know that the website owner, owns multiple e-commerce companies. These companies require large servers of their own. As we know, the bulk cost of ATS is the server dues. Then you have the IT maintenance costs.
I believe that the owner probably had space on his current servers, and or payed a minimal fee to increase his capacity. Virtually, making it incredibly cheap to run ATS.
Here lies the problem, the maintenance and/or a complete rejuvenation of the site to eliminate SO’s ancient code; and make it more usable and modern on the backend level.
The owner tackled the server costs issue. Now, he had to hire someone to take care of the back end - this produced problems with two separate IT guys. Then he hired Darko to make it his ‘vision’. Unfortunately, nobody liked his new vision of the site. The IT people clearly didn’t like working on the ancient code. Hence, the fact that he cycled through two in a short time. This left him with the most expensive option - building a new ATS. And it would have been really damn expensive to build a ‘new’ ATS. I don’t believe his plan was ever to build a new site. He thought he could find an over for cheap to maintain the current one.
In conclusion, the owner struck out 3 separate times for hiring anybody for backend improvements. In two separate categories - coding and the direction of the site from a members acceptance point of view. Due to being disgruntled by the failures, and the fact that he’s a busy dude - he gave up. Shoved it on the back burner for the future, if he somehow finds it in himself with the desire to take an active interest again. I do this with areas of my business. Sometimes you just receive too much pushback, but you know it can be lucrative. So you shove it aside, until you may find the motivation for the struggle again, or you give up entirely with more perspective through time.
BTW, if anybody’s watched Darko’s videos, you’d know damn well that there is NO WAY IN HELL the government would hire this guy to run it. Or any other powerful entity for that matter. I highly recommend watching a few minutes of one. It really puts him into perspective. The dudes an absolute moron. I think we can rule out a powerful entity owning ATS.
Here is the short version (because really, it is that is what it is - simple).
We know that the website owner, owns multiple e-commerce companies. These companies require large servers of their own. As we know, the bulk cost of ATS is the server dues. Then you have the IT maintenance costs.
I believe that the owner probably had space on his current servers, and or payed a minimal fee to increase his capacity. Virtually, making it incredibly cheap to run ATS.
Here lies the problem, the maintenance and/or a complete rejuvenation of the site to eliminate SO’s ancient code; and make it more usable and modern on the backend level.
The owner tackled the server costs issue. Now, he had to hire someone to take care of the back end - this produced problems with two separate IT guys. Then he hired Darko to make it his ‘vision’. Unfortunately, nobody liked his new vision of the site. The IT people clearly didn’t like working on the ancient code. Hence, the fact that he cycled through two in a short time. This left him with the most expensive option - building a new ATS. And it would have been really damn expensive to build a ‘new’ ATS. I don’t believe his plan was ever to build a new site. He thought he could find an over for cheap to maintain the current one.
In conclusion, the owner struck out 3 separate times for hiring anybody for backend improvements. In two separate categories - coding and the direction of the site from a members acceptance point of view. Due to being disgruntled by the failures, and the fact that he’s a busy dude - he gave up. Shoved it on the back burner for the future, if he somehow finds it in himself with the desire to take an active interest again. I do this with areas of my business. Sometimes you just receive too much pushback, but you know it can be lucrative. So you shove it aside, until you may find the motivation for the struggle again, or you give up entirely with more perspective through time.
BTW, if anybody’s watched Darko’s videos, you’d know damn well that there is NO WAY IN HELL the government would hire this guy to run it. Or any other powerful entity for that matter. I highly recommend watching a few minutes of one. It really puts him into perspective. The dudes an absolute moron. I think we can rule out a powerful entity owning ATS.
