Bennett Prescott
Just This Guy, You Know?

This is a repost of my new thread in Required Reading, here. Please take any discussion there.

Originally Posted by Bennett Prescott

It's been about a year now since we started showing advertisements on this website, a decision that we came to after much discussion amongst David and I as well as with this community. At that time we were entirely supported by user donations, which were regular and very generous. Without them we would never have been able to buy vBulletin, the software that runs this site, or upgrade to a

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It's been a surprisingly un-wild and wooly year plus that Soundforums.net has been in existence. We've gone from a late night idea to a relatively popular (1+ million page views a month from 25K unique visitors!) oasis in a noisy pro audio discussion world. During that time we have been 100% community supported, paying all our bills with PayPal donations from contributors and guests alike, and keeping the place running on donated time as well.

Since day one there has been discussion

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When David Karol and I started this website a little over a year ago as the result of a late night conversation, we hoped it might grow to become a home for pro audio folks to hang out without feeling like their contributions only mattered in the context of banner ad revenue. We wanted to create a site for sound people, run and owned by sound people, and supported by sound people. It never occurred to us that it would grow to nearly a quarter million page views a month, with contributors from every

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I just created the new Test Drive forum, and now I need to start my review of the McCauley M421 to go in it. Hopefully this will be a valuable resource for users and manufacturers alike.

Originally Posted by Bennett Prescott

The idea behind Test Drive is to create product reviews driven by community interest, supported by manufacturers, and written by active forum users. Instead of reading a review of a product in a magazine or on another website, read the first impressions of someone you know from this forum, who may or may not

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Dreamhost had a significant network outage that took our MySQL server offline, cause is still unknown. From their website:

Originally Posted by Dreamhost at 02:32 EST

Our admins are continuing to see networking issues in a specific row of servers at our LAX data center. They are checking for any abuse of the network, such as attacks or DDOS. This network problem is unfortunately affecting a number of mysql servers in this row. Some of the servers affected include:

algernon alvin daisy dangermouse gus itchy jerry

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