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WhoreMods -> RE: IMDB boards are shutting down (2/21/2017 8:14:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
The closing of the IMDB boards had nothing to do with politics, it had to do with cost.
Amazon who owns the IMDB has had a bit of a financial SNAFU of late, so since the boards were not a money maker, they saved money by killing the boards and the server that had them.
This was after trying to get others to take over the boards.
The others were TCM, the Warner internet movie collection and a couple of others, including HBO.
The boards were primarily funded by advertising, and internet based advertising is set by volume on the site. The boards user volume had dropped so the advertising income had also dropped.
So Amazon was left covering the cost of keeping the server access, the unused bandwidth to that part of the server etc.
And those companies charge for the TOTAL possible bandwidth usage, not how much actually hits the server.
For instance a t3 server line can cost between $3000 and $12000 a month, and fiber optic trunk access five times as much.
Now if you are not getting the usage on that server to justify that cost, you are being charged for unused bandwidth.
Now, Amazon did flirt with offsite data storage service a while back and decided not to go into it, but it would have easily covered the cost of the server line to the servers in question.
However the cost of administration and IT people to baby sit a mainframe is expensive.
Amazon's big mistake was putting the IMDB on a server they did not own, and it ended up biting them in the financial ass.
If it had been a strictly politically motivated move, they could have, like three wargaming sites I use, shut down the section of the boards that did not pertain to movies or discussions of movies.
The three wargaming sites shut down the sections of their boards that people used to voice political views and rants.
My personal opinion, if the site is not a strictly social networking site, politics and religion should be left out of the discussions.
It would be like discussing hockey at a PGA conference as a main issue.
Rational and sensible arguments, effendi.
When do those have any impact on butthurt whining from Trump fans who can't accept that anything on Earth isn't caused by nasty liberals picking on their chosen professional victim?
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