Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

My own website

Well how much a month/year is it gonna cost me to run the site?


Im looking at the statistics of gym and beach right now and i gotta say it could be alot better,
im about to look at serebii and the other sites but from what i see 5-10 years or more these sites have been on and thats all the stats possible to this day.

These sites should have alot more numbers than these,i think its because of the rules,i hear alot people complain they are off these sites because they cant stand the rules.

I think thats costing alot of members on these fan forum sites.
 
I think you're being pretty arrogant and rude in criticising Gym and Beach for underperforming and assuming you could do better. Especially when you have no experience and hardly any knowledge of how to run a website.

Just because you have heard a few people complain about Gym rules, doesn't mean there are thousands of people out there waiting to join your site.

Besides, there's already a very good Pokemon site with very few rules. It does not have anything like 10,000 members.
 
Baby mario its the same old people over and over again on all sites,theres no one new here to make these sites alive.

Im not criticizing the sites im just making aware of what i see.


gym has only 23k members in 10+years,last time we had 888 at the same time was a few years ago.

I think the sites are losing touch with the community.
Not just gym,but alot of sites are the same.

we get the same 100 plus members online at the same time,Pokepop has more post than there are members i think thats kinda wiered.there should be more members than any one persons amount of post.

Im not dissing in any way it just gym has a reputation and after all these years i find it sad its not more than what it is.

The stats numbers are kinda low except for the post/thread those numbers are huge.

but the members daily and members total there should me more than this.

Ita the same ol people all the mods,scott,william,baby mario etc.

its a small class but should be a big community.

I dont think the people that are making this site or any site for that matter is trying as hard as they could be,when it comes to question why or why not the answer is all the people running the site has lives outside gym,beach etc.

In other words the site is a side project so its put on the back burner.

Last priority.I think thats why the sites are suffering.

23k members and yet we get the same ol 100 familiar names on the chart on the homepage.

A group of people running this site and this is what we have.
I want gym and the other sites to be better i gotten so bored im thinking of making my own site.

To be clear im not dissing im trying to open your eyes we should have a broader community and more things to do on the site.

I cant be the only one bored,nothing chnages or improves.
 
you really think that the only people who read this or any other site are the ones who are registered/post?

'mom
 
whats your point,they can read it so what but its always around 200 people online,100 more or less memeber and the rest are guest.

Its no different than someones personal FB page.
 
Since you don't seem to want any constructive critisism, just try it, invest some money in it and see how you get on, maybe then what you will understand what we're talking about.

And as for it always being the same people on, this will happen anywhere, the majority of people who register to a site will eventually not be getting enough out of it to visit very frequently, either leaving all together, or just casually visiting to check out what's new, it's nothing against the site, it's just how it is.

Also, you listed William as one of the people constantly online, Will left the Pokemon scene and PokeGym completely over a year ago. He did briefly return to a forum (not PokeGym) for a while, but then left again.
 
Because it's like asking 'how much does a car cost'?

If you want a crappy old Toyota, not that much.

If you want a Bugatti Veyron, a hell of a lot.

It depends what kind of website you want.
 
A fan site for comments,threads,discussion
A fan forum site but some things only on that site that other sites dont do or have.
 
But what kind of quality are you aiming for?

Do you want one of those free forums, or something like the Gym or 6P's vBulletin which you have to pay for?

What are these 'things only on that site that other sites dont do or have'? How much bandwidth is it going to need?

Can you code and design a website by yourself or do you need professional help?

TBH, a Pokemon forum is not the best place to find out this stuff. You need to do some proper research, instead of asking a bunch of card game players what they think. From what you have said so far I don't think you have much of a clue about what it will all involve.
 
In the first few post i said i dont know what to do,which is why im asking for help.

Whatever gym,beach serebii etc has their page set up is how i wanna get my page set up.

I dont know about bandwidth or codecs.

Also how did pokegym crash a few days ago and how much did it cost to get things fixed?
 
Speaking as a person who has done a bit of coding and website-ing on the side. Dude, you've got to be 110% serious about this. A setup as major as those websites is gonna require THOUSANDS in costs and equipment fees. Even if you make it back later, you're looking at a down payment of like 5k, assuming you want a setup as advanced and nice as the sites you've listed. Now, that may be a bit high, but it's definately not a drop in the bucket. And, assuming you have 5k just sitting around somewhere, you've got to spend more on advertising your site. Assuming you do that, you're looking at maybe getting some new users. But even then, advertising on your site will NOT repay your initial investment for that many years. Are you SURE your life is finacially stable as to literally throw over 5k to the wind?

If you DO have the 5k sitting around, donate it to charity or something. At least that way you get something (like a tax deduction) out of it.

If, for some reason, you're literally just sitting on craptons of money, feel free to say so. Otherwise, sorry, but you're being a tad bit unrealistic.
 
How do you figure 5k? I cant see all these fan websites paying 5k for equipment,also what equipment is needed anyway?

Im not doing advertising i will get my website known by word of mouth.
 
According to your profile, you’re in New York. To start out, hosting your own server is gonna require a T1 connection at the minimum. (This is assuming you DO host it yourself, buying dedicated space in a major server farm is even more)

In your area, the average price for that is $269 a month, for the basic level of T1. That’ll allow you a few thousand users. But of course you need a high powered server to hook up into it, no? So let’s price that out.

Dell has one called the “PowerEdge R310 Rack Server” for the low price of $649. Great, so assume we go with that. Now, given that you’re not at all comfortable with computers on the back end (protip: Codec =/= Code) you’ll have to hire somebody to run it for you. Assume, and I’m being VERY generous, that it only takes them three hours to get you entirely online. So there’s 150 bucks down the drain.

Now, you want to use vbulliten, so the cost to buy that is 285. But you’ll need some support to get started. Oh, hey, there’s another 180 bucks down the drain.

Now of course, your new computer toys are gonna cost you a lot of extra electricity, so don’t forget that. You’ll need a domain name, which luckily for you, can be gotten on the cheap, let’s call it 20 bucks.

So, with just this, we’re looking at a minimum of $2629 to do nothing but have a home page for 6 months. Now, of course, you want this to look polished. So you need to hire a website designer. See where I’m going with this? If you truly want this to be good, you’re gonna have to drop a VERY sizable amount of cash on it.

Sources: Google, Dell.com, Common Sense
 
Smpratte how much did it cost you to start the upccc?

I thought the domain name and vbulletin will be the majority of what i pay for.
Assuming i do all the work myself,just me no one else.

what do i have to pay besides domain and vbulletin to have the site up.

I will do all the work,
 
I don't think you understand, dude. Saying you're gonna make your own website from scratch with nothing else except paying for those two things is like saying you're gonna build your own house with a hammer, a nail, and a sheet of plywood. If you don't even know how to code, all you're gonna do is piss away the cost of a license.

Assuming this isn't just you trolling us all successfully, you're really out of your element here.

Here's some questions:


Q: What does a link look like in html?
Q: What is ASCII?
Q: What separates "char" from "int" from "float" from "double"?
Q: What port does http run on, and what is the IP address of localhost?
Q: What separates an "asynchronous" account from a *"synchronous" one?
Q: What separates a switch from a hub?
Q: What is FTP used for?
Q: What does "sudo" mean?

If you had to Google ANY of those, or even think about them for more than second, you're not capable of doing ANY of the hard work on your own. It's not lack of effort, it's lack of the specific skills needed to do so.
 
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I can learn how to code,or i can find some friends who can start it for me to get things going.
other than the skills or the knowledge what is a must i have to pay for

I know i have to pay for the domain site,thats a must either way,i know i gotta pay vbulletin thats a must.

Tell me just the things thats jsut a must no way around it you gotta pay for it,also list the price average.

The skill and knowledge ill figure that out.
 
If you're aiming to be "Top tier" quality, you're still lookig at at least 2k for your equipment. You can't handwave away the cost of a T1 line nor can you handwave the server, nor the software licenses. Can you even write code in ANY language? I'll even take a basic nested loops C program as proof of SOMETHING.
 
What equipment? and what is T1?

the quality of the site i can fix myself,i just need something that works.
the quality i will do myself.just need it to run and have members/guest vist the page.
 
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