Wed 19 Jul 2006
Or at least, that’s how ezboard sees it. You see, part of the issue with ezboard is that every ezboard community is hosted on shared servers and what one board does affects the rest.
How so? Well take this post in the ezboard Help [sic] Forums. Apparently, one board’s members are seeing connection timeouts and delays and have seen fit to complain.
The cause of their problems? Another board on the same server that has the “who’s online” feature enabled.
The solution? ezboard will see if they will turn that feature off!
Bearing in mind ezboard’s charges for Gold communities and how cheap servers are these days, there’s really no excuse for this at all. Clearly ezboard, Inc. are setting profit before customer experience.
After all, if one of the larger boards on the server being complained about paid $4,172 in January, don’t they deserve their own server?
What’s truly mind boggling is what they get for their $4,172 a year. Just look at this graphic:
20GB of web space and 1TB of bandwidth a month. For $7.95 a month. And those limits increase every week! Oh, and the icing on the cake is that they offer “One-Click Installs” of phpBB forum software so even the excuse that people aren’t comfortable installing forum software doesn’t really wash.
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[...] So the plan today was to look at yesterday’s post about the $4,172 price for a Gold community and do a table to compare prices and features of a phpBB forum and a vBulletin forum hosted with DreamHost with what “The Clayboard” had paid to use ezboard and were likely to pay when that board is migrated over to Yuku. [...]