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[Info-Sumo]

Les combats de la 1ère journée en jûryô.

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[Golynohana]

Thank you so much for the videos!

[Golynohana]

Looks like I hurried up a bit with my enthusiasm.
A required paypal donation...
So from now on you will show only half of the bouts unless you get paid?

I also could have require people to pay me if they want to play Sekitori Oracle or Quadrumvirate. I spent a lot of time (and I guess you too) to create my site and to add new features but I am just happy if people want to visit my site and play the games. I don't want to make money on that.

And there are much more people who spent their valuable time to deliver al kinds of stuff for us (internet sumo community) - games, magazines, forums etc. And they all do it for free.
Some have paypal account but they don't make it mandatory to pay.

It is a pity you decided to make money on your videos

[Info-Sumo]

I am very far from "making money"...

[kaiguma]

though I haven't figured out yet how to make use of my payment, let's not take info-sumo for granted. Just because some people can afford to this for free doesn't mean everyone should...

We have no idea of any of the economic specifics behind the decision. And he shouldn't have to disclose this information to satisfy us. The most obvious difference between his service and yours is the enormous difference in bandwidth requirements considering this site is full of flash-video. You had to disable normal functions on one occasion becasue of exceeding bandwidth, right? And this was without video, just to ensure you could keep free ISP. Info-sumo may just be trying to break even. If there is a surplus this basho, coming basho may be free until another one is necessary, making this more of a fundraiser than a profit-grab.

Even of coming basho still require donation, it seems to be "pay as you wish." This is also not indicative of a profit-driven mentality.

[Info-Sumo]

As I explained a few minutes ago to a friend in a private message, hosting many Gigabits of video can't be free.
I don't own a server, I rent one, and it has been so for many year.
Yearly cost for a dedicated server is around 1080€ when there is no problem (hire of specialists when I have problems - hacks for instance - 3 times within 6 years).
A server has to be rented according to its activity. When you see 1000 people downloading large files everyday, you don't take the cheapest one. It wouldn't last one day...
You just add the cost to get japanese TV and you will get a good idea of the only financial cost.

After that you can take into account the time you spend and compare.
I don't participate in any game. Why? just because I have no time for it, as I manage to make clips as quickly as possible to satisfy everybody.
I even don't participate much in the forum discusson during basho for the same reason.

I m sure that if I stop making these clips, I will find time to play sumo games or participate in all sumo forums, and surely loose less money. This basho is a kind of test to check if I'd not better wait for someone else to do the job. For free of course

[Golynohana]

Ok, I know a high bandwidth can be expensive, but never realised it is that expensive. Aren't there any cheaper options? 1000 euro per year is indeed a lot.

When I was searching for web hosting with ASP.NET and SQL Server I found some not so expensive hostings with unlimited disc space and unlimited bandwidth for about 10$ per month.

I suspect this unlimitedness doesn't apply for video files, but maybe I am wrong. If you want to have a look here is one of them:

http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.ph...anBusinessPlus

On the other hand, I suspect 99% of people watch bouts of current day of the current basho only.
Maybe it could be much cheaper if you keep on the server only the current videos.

[Masterfab]

Oui info-Sumo. Vous avez tout a fait raison de demander un petit soutien financier. Et je m excuse d ors et deja de ne pas l avoir fait auparavant. La qualite de votre travail ne supporte aucun questionnement ou justificatif de cette petite requette. Comme vous l avez dit chacun donne ce qu il peut et personne n est oblige de regarder vos videos.
Je vous souhaite bon courage pour le tournoi et merci encore pour tout ces moments geniaux.
Big up

[Masterfab]

Oups! Par contre je ne vois que le message, aucune video en Juryo ou Makuuchi. Et je n ai aucun message dans ma boite. Si quelqu un peut me tuyauter? Desole je suis classe zero en informatique.
Merci

[Miyabiyama]

J'ai eu le même problème hier, Masterfab

En fait, dès que tu fais un don à info-sumo, (et que tu deviens un membre "donateur"), il y a automatiquement une rubrique supplémentaire qui s'ouvre sur le forum "video plus" je crois. Tous les combats (juryo et makuuchi) sont dedans!