aeon

Ahoy banner...

soopa

I like RockDog's idea

hehe, but seriously...

What the site truly needs is donations... and sponsors.

No banners: Mainly because I don't want this to turn into an egyptian market lookin place like some of other car sites.

No membership fees: Why? Because half of our members wouldnt sign up. Look at how many of you whined about the $20 a year for PhotoPoint. lol

So... if anyone here would like to provide some sort of sponsorship for the forum in exchange for some strategic ad/product placement (ie. no blatant banners) then e-mail me: soopa@acura-cl.com.

If you are a brilliant sales/marketing type guy... and you wanna help us out in securing sponsorship... email me.

If you are just a schmuck like me who cant stand having more then the $5.00 minimum balance in his savings account... then feel free to donate a couple bucks to the cause via PayPal... soopa@acura-cl.com as the recipient.

Or... if you have access to hardware for our server... let me know...

We need:
Dual CPU motherboard
Two Pentium Processors
Like 512mb of ram.
and a decent sized SCSI drive

We have hosting covered thanks to our friend WebToker and his associates at INSYNC.net.

So that covers the bases I think.

Oh... Sypher... I like your links section... shoot me an e-mail if your interested in doing some webmaster type stuff for the site.

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2001 Acura 3.2 CL Type-S
San Marino Red (Navigation)
PIAA 19173 Ion Yellow Fogs • Valentine 1 • Xephyr CAI

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein

Scorpius

I think banners would be OK if there is no other way. Making this a pay site would drive others away, but one lousy banner should be fine. Stangnet has a banner and it isn't too bothersome. But, I think along with the banner a better job of eliminating jerkoff posts should be done. Delete trolls. Check out mbworld.org.

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Red 3.2 CL-S.
"Life is too short not to be Italian." -Paul Sorvino
"How do you expect your date to turn over if your engine doesn't?" -Original
Proud member of "I didn't hit the curb like a dope and scratch my rims" club.

Dyno_CL-S

wehat about that guy that works @ compUSA???? whats the deal?? no hook ups??

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Current ride: 91 Dodge Colt.... no p/w, no p/l, no AC

Preiovus ride: 2001 CL-S, Black, dropped 2 inches, stock

Ahoooo

I'm in for $25 for a custom avatar and supporting a good cause. Where do I send the check?

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2001 CL Type S
San Marino Red/Parchment
non-nav/wheel locks
splash guards/PIAA 19169 road lamps
Xephyr Performance CAI
V1 Piggy Squealer
Red Painted Calipers
Shine by Meguiars #7 and Gold Class

SD_surfer

No problem for the contribution here..

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2001 CL-S Black/Navi
AEM CAI,Eibach Pro spring,Polarg M-6,35% tint
*Audio system upgraded
AMP: Xtant 603x
FRONT: Focal 165W
SUBs: 2 Boston Pro 10LF

thholr

I think the biggest problem with charging a fee is that you wont get a lot of new people. Why would you pay money to chat.
I think if we opened this up for donations and everybody put in a 5 or 10 bucks, then we should be fine. I mean this would make more sense than putting up banners or charging a flat fee.
I dont mind paying a fee personally , but we will loose a lot of potential new people.


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2001 Acura CL Type S
San Marino red
non nav.

ChodTheWacko

I think donations should be encouraged by
giving the donators some kinda perk. How
about uh, larger avatars based on how much
you pay? That would rule!

People can race to get the biggest avatar!

How about charging 5 cents per post-whore post? There's a couple of guys who could
fund the entire web site for ya. :P

If you can get a rough estimate of working costs to maintain the site, i am sure you shouldn't have problem getting donations.
I don't think people will mind coughing up $5 for the good of this wonderful group!

I don't know if it would be financially viable, but wouldn't a raffle be awesome?
Like say, $50 per entry into a raffle for say, headers? Perhaps along with the headers, installation would be free?
I'm willing to bet you'd get enough entries to pay for the headers and then some!



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'01 Aegean Blue CL S-Type w/ Nav(coming soon!)
CL FAQ (work in progress): www.wizardsworks.org/chod/acura

prikid

I've done some contracting for Sun Microsystems - I'll be contacting some of their sysadmins within a week or so regarding this... who knows, maybe we'll get lucky? No promises, though.

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'01 CL Silver CLS
I don't trust Gtech anymore.

URIRx98

Whatever Adam wants to do Im up to it. IF he wants to charge, u know we will all be taround tomorrow, and if he puts a aner on, so what, lets just hope it doenst slow down the site, cause im stuck on dial up, and i hate slow sites.
wg

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The SILVER STREAKER CL-S no navi, spoiler, tint all around, moonroof visor,
indaglo emblom, ACURA.CL.com stickers, eurolights fog lights, bel 950 radar detector, and 2 chamber flowmaster exaust
hyperwhie highbeams and corner lights, and eyeball fogs. 620+ posts makes me still a freak on the old Cl page.
my cl-s http://albums.photopoint.com/j/Album...725&a=11443786

snubotch

aight i'll do it when i come on

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white type s (known as my white bitch)

piaa bulbs
xephyr cai

Caddy©

Supporting Soopa ! Soopa is this your wife ?

Caddy©

Well try this then:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cx/ipip...s052601.html?u

Caddy©

FYI: Soopa's real name is Gordon

Sypher

Will do.

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Sypher (www.sypher.com)
'01 Black CL Type-S
Valentine-1

Achance

I'm not going to read all 3 pages of responses but in case somebody else hasn't mentioned it.

Just start selling t-shirts, stickers, license plate frames, coffe mugs, etc. if he really wanted to make some money for the site. Club-si does it so they can support their site. I forget who they use as the supplier but there are plenty of internet businesses that will set it up for you.

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Now it's time for me to make my impression felt
So sit back, relax, and strap on your seatbelt
You never been on a ride like this befo'

Ashburner

Soopa,

I work for Hewlett Packard and can probably get my hands on some older servers but HP was not on the list of "reliable" companies.

What do you think?

-Ash

Dacat

YEAH RAFFLE, great idea!
Perhaps a raffle, 10 bucks an entry, for a $1000 dollar gift certificate to autcarparts.com or another Acura product site. Maybe these sites will give you a discount on the actual cost of the gift certificate (like 850 for a 1000 dollar one) saving you even more money. This is of course assuming you get over 100 entries (I'll buy at least 2 or 3 entries) and that it's handled right (no cheating).



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01 Silver CL-S, Navi, Spoiler, V1, PIAA's
Retired: 94 540i

EricL

Boy I had a nasty thought -- whatever idea comes along -- it should be an idea that produces "continuous" revenue.

Assumption -- congestion slows up increase in board membership and usage. So, adding new hardware allows for nice fast connection. Now a bunch of new people come along.


The new server is going to reach a point where it needs to be upgrades, as did the last ones. So, while it is a great idea, and I'm willing to contribute to help get new hardware, but at what speed is this site growing. And how is the "congestion" influencing the site's usage.

Wouldn't a "growth" oriented revenue model be in everyone's best interest?

Just a thought...

BTW -- I don't mind contributing, I just thought about this over the holiday.


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Silver 2001 CL-S with NAVI

• Mud guards
• Wheel locks
• Toyo T1S 235/45ZR17-97W* Proxies on 17x8" SSR Competition wheels (48lbs less than stock)
• Kevlar/SS Brake lines w/Brembos?
• Comptech headers & sways
• Silver AEM CAI
• 10 coats of Zaino magic

amir was here

i wish i had a higher post count...

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2001 CL-S
Black/Black
Moonroof Visor
35% Tint All Around
Black Wood Dash Kit
Sportswing spoiler
My Bitch
aka Deadly-CLs

"I come for the Car Talk, but stay for the Ramblings"

eclipse23

Tired of being a post whore? What do you want, a title like Brothel Queen?

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01' Acura CL Type-S
Piaa 19169 Bulbs
Valentine1 Pig Detector
CompTech Exhaust
Xephyr Cold Air Intake
Really Cool Mesh Grill
Custom BASS by <A HREF="http://www.streeteffectz.com

01'Acura" TARGET=_blank>www.streeteffectz.com

01'Acura</A> Integra GSR

amir was here

i am not a post whore..not anymore, i was "talked to"

and whats a brothel queen?

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2001 CL-S
Black/Black
Moonroof Visor
35% Tint All Around
Black Wood Dash Kit
Sportswing spoiler
My Bitch
aka Deadly-CLs

"I come for the Car Talk, but stay for the Ramblings"

CLS16

I'm willing to help out...just say the word.

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01 white/ebony CL-S
Pewter Xephyr CAI
PIAA's 19224

Crazy Bimmer

well i just signed up for paypal and put soopas name as the referal.

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2002 TL Type-S
Comptech Springs
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake, you are the all-singing all-dancing Crap of the world!

nootch

a brothel is a whore house



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Looks like I am going to have to carjack my CL-S

amir was here

Ohhh..ok

isnt it also called a bawdy house?

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2001 CL-S
Black/Black
Moonroof Visor
35% Tint All Around
Black Wood Dash Kit
Sportswing spoiler
My Bitch
aka Deadly-CLs

"I come for the Car Talk, but stay for the Ramblings"

nootch

Never heard of that term...



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Looks like I am going to have to carjack my CL-S

Cee eL eS

banners? banners? we dont need no stinkin' banners!!!!

J/K...anything to help out the forum i'm cool w/...

Dyno_CL-S

any update on this?? new servers coming?? wassup

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Coming soon: 97-99 Eclipse GST/GSX turbo, conv, leather
Current ride: 91 Dodge Colt.... no p/w, no p/l, no AC..POS
Preiovus ride: 2001 CL-S, Black, dropped 2 inches, stock

moomaster_99

So, what exactly are we doing to help you out Soop???

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2001 Cl-S Black on Black with Navigation
Black Tint all around (15%~45%)
Weapon-R Dragon Filter
Weapon-R Coil-Overs
Koni Adjustable Struts
Comptech Sway Bars
Comptech Headers (hehehe...I got something for you drchang!!)
14.698 @95.977mph....Sears Point Raceway.I think I need a Level 10 Torque Converter!!
Yes, I know I'm going to hell for wasting gas on Civics....

Iridium130

you damn canucks, with your wacky words for everyday, common, American things.

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_-Phil-_! (a.k.a. 'Green Box')
2K1 #10,029 Satin Silver CL-S since 6/13/00 named Laetitia with Navi! Mods : XEPHYR PERFORMANCE CAI~3M Reflective Tint(37%) tint~Hiper Hibrid Plasma "Xenon" road lamps & high-beams~Uniden LRD 6599SWS Radar Detector~Shine by Meguiar's Gold Wax~Member of the Scratched Rims Club~Upgraded cupholder ~

Green Box -4- Mod!!

Handruin

Besides the hardware, what OS is prefered to hosting this web page? I see it's currently being hosted on a FreeBSD machine with Apache/1.3.19. Is this the type of platform it would be kept on? How many hits a day on average does the site get? What's the internet pipeline that will be used?

We have 30 Dell servers in our group at work and I feel mixed with their reliability. I think it may be because they are older models. We just received 16 of the 1550 rack moutable 1U servers and one died after 3 days. It ended up being a power supply so it wasn't that bad. They are Dual PIII 1 GHz with 1 GB ram and a 10k U160 18 GB seagate cheetah drive. My overall opinion is that they are very snappy compared to our older units. They have the ServerWorks HE-SL Chipset which I've heard good reviews on. You can also get them with redhat Linux if you want to go that route, or you can get 2 of them and form a MS Cluster pair running windows 2000 Advanced Server and have a more reliable solution. If done right I'd say linux would be a little more secure/reliable.

The Dell 1550 would run about $5,353.00 according to Dell and would have:

2x 1GHz Pentium III Processors
1024 MB Ram (2x 512 Dimms)
2x 36GB 10K hard drives (mirrored possibly?)
Intel Pro 100 Dual NIC
24X CD-ROM
Linux Redhat 7

Our Compaq's at work have been very reliable, although I've never been a huge fan of Compaq in the past.

My work buys so many servers I could find out if there is any deal through compaq, or dell if people want that.

Figure the amount of people here, and try to get donations from everyone.

1000 people x $5-$10....
I'd be willing to donate money if I knew it were going to a server to run this forum.

DC

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2001 CL-S red, spoiler, mud guards, moon visor

[This message has been edited by Handruin (edited 05-31-2001).]

Sypher

We (at work) just bought a 1550 with:

2x 1GHz Pentium III Processors
2048 MB Ram (4x 512 Dimms)
3x 36GB 10K hard drives (RAID 5)
SCSI Raid controller with 64MB RAM
Intel Pro 100 Dual NIC
24X CD-ROM
No Operating System
Refurbished

for $4900, right from the Dell site...
Can't beat their refurbs.


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Sypher (www.sypher.com)
'01 Black CL Type-S
Valentine-1

Dyno_CL-S

....ummm....i was thinking the same thing.... i think, lol

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Coming soon: 97-99 Eclipse GST/GSX turbo, conv, leather
Current ride: 91 Dodge Colt.... no p/w, no p/l, no AC..POS
Preiovus ride: 2001 CL-S, Black, dropped 2 inches, stock