More Glitches in the ATS Matrix

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yeah,  march 22 if i remember correctly.  at least that was when it happened back in '22 if i remember correctly-.
not sure where it is hosted now.. should be on multiple mirrors anyway. 10 grand a month.. its mindboggeling really.

If it's a proper commercial op on the backend then the hosting fees are no surprise. My understanding is the infrastructure was built to handle an amount of traffic the site no longer has, but did at one time.

If I had purchased it, the first thing I would do is scale it back to current traffic levels. For the small amount of traffic the place seems to have now it could probably be run on a couple standalone boxes.

Also, there was discussion that the operation was sold off in pieces, so maybe Darko & Co only bought the forum and moved it to something much cheaper to operate. Who knows? It's all speculation really.

I used to rent a half rack in St. Louis on 10Mbps tier-2 w/ 1TB data transfer/mth for around $500/mth but there was about $50K worth of owned equipment inside it. If you pay an MSP to do it then the costs are substantially higher. It's not just $500/mth though because in 5 years or so, you'll probably need to replace most/all of it, so those operating costs need to be amortized. If you get a spike in traffic, the overage fees can be ludicrous. This was ages ago now though.

It sounds like they were paying for all the development and whatnot to 3rd party contractors. That's $$$. I can do all that myself.