**THANK YOU ALL FOR 10 GREAT YEARS OF THE 500EBOARD !! **

[gerryvz]

This is one reason why I have such large and generous rules for size of attachments, unlike many if not most forums out there. This site has around 100 GB of stored images and files (attachments). This does not include the thumbnails of these images, nor the forum files themselves (all of which totals around 25-30 GB).


ALL of this data is backed up daily, and the 100GB of images is also mirrored to a local hard drive, and backed up locally on an hourly basis.

Every week, an additional 300-600MB of images and PDFs get added to this total.

 

[sheward]

MAW, I also had acquired my 1st 500E not too long before Ecstacy went down. The seller pointed me there. I didn't know much about the cars and bought it on the premise that I would learn. I learned way more than enough to own and maintain them right here.

So glad you decided to take things over, Gerry.

 

[gerryvz]

The 14th birthday of the 500Eboard forum will be on this coming November 30th !!

 

[gerryvz]

LOL of the day....

 

[duuder]

Ask 10 mil and a Hammer, let's see what they say

 

[gerryvz]

In case you are interested, Groupbuilder.com is owned by VerticalScope, which is a forum owner and operator of more than 1,200 forums, I believe including Banzworld and many others.

Groupbuilder is an advertising company that buys forums so that they can insert and display ads on behalf of their advertisers. The goal is eyeballs and clicks on ads, not to keep a forum running and its users happy.

More, for your reading enjoyment:

Groupbuilder.com tried to buy freestompboxes.org

Some months ago I was contacted by Faith Lopez, an employee of groupbuilder.com, about selling freestompboxes.org. I did not believe it at first, so did not even reply to the first emails. They kept coming, until they got a snarky response to the effect

www.freestompboxes.org

The Patriot Woodworker Not for Sale

I get emails sometimes, like this: Quote Hi, Hope this message reaches you well. I just wanted to follow up one last time to see if you would consider selling your forum. Would love to know what your thoughts are. Please let me know if I emailed the wrong person. Would also greatly appreciate it ...

thepatriotwoodworker.com

Vertical Scope

So there is this company called verticalscope and they own like a thousand forums. They are buying forums quickly. I hope that they don't buy out all forums. What do you think? Do you think that all large and active forums will be corporate owned one day? I hope not.

www.theadminzone.com

Anybody sold their forum(s) to Verticalscope?

Seem to have somebody from Virticalscope email me annually wishing to chat about buying a forum or two of mine. Wondering whether anybody has taken the leap, and whether they regretted it. It's alright thinking 3 or 4 times it's current annual turnover in the bank in one go would be nice...

xenforo.com

Has anyone ever offered to buy your forum?

I had a company (Internet Brands I believe it was) offer me 350k for my forum a few months back. I turned it down because after taxes I wouldn't pocket that much. Not to mention I actually very much enjoy running my forum, as it’s a passion of mine. Anyways, just thought this might make for...

xenforo.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/4x4/comments/hw1p3a

Verticalscope

Verticalscope

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