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Matriarch
A member recently wrote me a rather rude email, saying that our hosting should cost no more than $9.99 per month with the likes of Godaddy, and accused me of all sorts of things in relation to this thread.
That would be all very well, if we had a wordpress blog and a few thousand visitors per day (the example he gave of his site).
We serve 50 million pageviews per month, and host the interactions of 3 million people. To do this, we run 4 dedicated servers, have additional storage and backups, memory upgrades, and unmetered bandwidth. You then have to pay the licence fees for all the software that runs on the servers too.
To give you an idea of costs, multiply these by 4 for the basic servers alone: http://www.quadranet.com/dedicated-servers/high-bandwidth/
Gav is at the top of his profession, and really knows what he is doing, so please do not contact either him or I with any server related messages.
A huge thank you to all those members who have upgraded their membership, and shown support for the site.
Nicola
That would be all very well, if we had a wordpress blog and a few thousand visitors per day (the example he gave of his site).
We serve 50 million pageviews per month, and host the interactions of 3 million people. To do this, we run 4 dedicated servers, have additional storage and backups, memory upgrades, and unmetered bandwidth. You then have to pay the licence fees for all the software that runs on the servers too.
To give you an idea of costs, multiply these by 4 for the basic servers alone: http://www.quadranet.com/dedicated-servers/high-bandwidth/
Gav is at the top of his profession, and really knows what he is doing, so please do not contact either him or I with any server related messages.
A huge thank you to all those members who have upgraded their membership, and shown support for the site.
Nicola
Matriarch
Thank you for the feedback Van.
It made sense to make the change. We are primarily a story site (hence the domain name!), and focus was being taken away from that fact.
I like that the poems are all together now too, on their own tab. It makes accessing them a lot easier, in the one place.
It made sense to make the change. We are primarily a story site (hence the domain name!), and focus was being taken away from that fact.
I like that the poems are all together now too, on their own tab. It makes accessing them a lot easier, in the one place.
Matriarch
Quote by Mazza
Apart from being loaded with the cold, I've had a good one!
Hope all the UK mums have too!
I don't find Frankie Boyle funny, big, or clever. Except for the funny and clever bit
My mother was delighted with the roast pork offering, with braised red cabbage (cider reduction with caraway seeds), potatoes, and all the usual trimmings.
It's nice being back in the UK for some things
. Oh, I did have a fire going in the kitchen, a must when it's 4°c outside. 
@ Sprite.
Matriarch
A fantastic $200 First Prize awaits the winner of this competition.
We wish to push writers and their characters, to their limits with this one.
Competition Theme
Think of your favourite Triple-X tryst that would scorch most vanilla sensibilities. Stories like these are intense and raw and may fill a sexual niche that’s not to everyone’s taste.
This may include rough sex, gagging, gangbangs, double-penetration, choking play, ass-to-mouth, watersports, messy cum-play, snowballing, anal play, enemas, cbt, face-sitting, fisting or similar practices.
Stories for this competition should be under 10K words and contain one or more edgy sexual elements that puts the focus on the Hardcore and successfully melds the ‘deep and dirty’ with ‘the erotic’.
Please note, stories must abide by our acceptable content policy here. In a nutshell, anything legal, between consenting adults, should be fine, but please check the rules before putting fingers to keyboard.
Full competition details can be found, by clicking the image below:
Good luck, and have fun!
Nicola
We wish to push writers and their characters, to their limits with this one.
Competition Theme
Think of your favourite Triple-X tryst that would scorch most vanilla sensibilities. Stories like these are intense and raw and may fill a sexual niche that’s not to everyone’s taste.
This may include rough sex, gagging, gangbangs, double-penetration, choking play, ass-to-mouth, watersports, messy cum-play, snowballing, anal play, enemas, cbt, face-sitting, fisting or similar practices.
Stories for this competition should be under 10K words and contain one or more edgy sexual elements that puts the focus on the Hardcore and successfully melds the ‘deep and dirty’ with ‘the erotic’.
Please note, stories must abide by our acceptable content policy here. In a nutshell, anything legal, between consenting adults, should be fine, but please check the rules before putting fingers to keyboard.
Full competition details can be found, by clicking the image below:
Good luck, and have fun!
Nicola
Matriarch
Quote by naughtyannie
Slowly I pulled my skirt up, revealing that I wasn't wearing panties. Across the carriage, he smiled, and I saw his trousers start to bulge.
Twozzled.
Good to see you Annie.
Perfect timing for the new competition, which I think will be right up your street.
Matriarch
A new competition will be running in a few days.
I could use the newsletter feature to send a broadcast message. It would mean sending 270,000 messages though, which clutter up the mail server.
At the moment we advertise new competitions on the front of the site, with the "ad" being in rotation with the featured members box. Competitions are announced in the site announcement forums too. We generally try to have one on the go at all times, or that's the intention.
You'll just need to visit the site more often Verbal
p.s. the collar idea also works. Good thinking Sprite!
I could use the newsletter feature to send a broadcast message. It would mean sending 270,000 messages though, which clutter up the mail server.
At the moment we advertise new competitions on the front of the site, with the "ad" being in rotation with the featured members box. Competitions are announced in the site announcement forums too. We generally try to have one on the go at all times, or that's the intention.
You'll just need to visit the site more often Verbal
p.s. the collar idea also works. Good thinking Sprite!
Matriarch
Quote by sprhr2
I thrust inside you using my shaft like an orchestra conductor bringing your screams and orgasm to a passionate, powerful crescendo (131)
EXACTLY 140 CHARACTERS IS THE CHALLENGE FOLKS.
1st rule in any writing challenge / call for submissions = READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Matriarch
Quote by LYFBUZ
His fingertips trailed softly along her silky smooth thigh, his delicate touch like cat prints in fresh snow. She trembled in anticipation.
A character short.
These have been tweetered (the ones which were hot enough, and EXACTLY 140 characters). Thank you for continuing to take up the challenge folks. It's harder than it looks.
Matriarch
I can confirm, deleting over 5,000 messages from my inbox, speeds up the load time from over 30 seconds, to 1 second. 
I suggest if you are having the same problem, either delete your inbox totally, or trim all your older messages.
It would probably make sense to place a limit on the # messages you can keep in your inbox, to aid loading speeds.
I suggest if you are having the same problem, either delete your inbox totally, or trim all your older messages.
It would probably make sense to place a limit on the # messages you can keep in your inbox, to aid loading speeds.
Matriarch
That's exactly what I do to make a variation of chicken schnitzel (I usually use fresh thyme instead of mixed herbs). Splash on some lemon juice for good measure. It works well with pork too.
I normally go the whole parmigiana route, adding a simple italian tomato based sauce. It can sometimes be a little dry without the sauce, if you don't get the timing spot on. Chicken is so often over-cooked.
Now I'm hungry. Did somebody say, "McDonalds"?
I normally go the whole parmigiana route, adding a simple italian tomato based sauce. It can sometimes be a little dry without the sauce, if you don't get the timing spot on. Chicken is so often over-cooked.
Now I'm hungry. Did somebody say, "McDonalds"?
Matriarch
"Recently McDonald's had to recall 1 million chicken McNuggets because they had VINYL in them.
Anyway, we were lucky enough to find the outtakes from a taping of a McDonald's commercial that gets out of control."
Funny and annoying in equal measure = comedy.
Eat well, live well!
Nom nom
Anyway, we were lucky enough to find the outtakes from a taping of a McDonald's commercial that gets out of control."
Funny and annoying in equal measure = comedy.
Eat well, live well!
Nom nom
Matriarch
We have split stories / poems on the front page now, via 2 tabs. The default is to load stories. There may be an option coming, to select poems on the home page in your settings. I'm awaiting confirmation.
There's a glitch at the moment where stories are leaking into the poetry section. That will be fixed up soon.
There's a glitch at the moment where stories are leaking into the poetry section. That will be fixed up soon.
Matriarch
I only just noticed it myself.
I've sent Gav a message asking him to add a prompt to make it clear you are purposely deleting the entire contents of your inbox, and that the process cannot be undone. It's either that, or we could ask for confirmation by typing in your account password, or something like that. If the button was moved away from the others, fewer accidents might happen too.
I've sent Gav a message asking him to add a prompt to make it clear you are purposely deleting the entire contents of your inbox, and that the process cannot be undone. It's either that, or we could ask for confirmation by typing in your account password, or something like that. If the button was moved away from the others, fewer accidents might happen too.
Matriarch
Quote by erosbydesign
Your work is under valued, under appreciated and critical to the operation - said no one ever to the dev. guy! all the best in the migration.
Apparently there is 300gb of data and over 1/4 million images to migrate over. Not surprising it's taking so long.
At least at the end of it all, we'll have a dedicated image server, and site speed should be improved.
Matriarch
I am delighted to say that this poetry competition was a huge success. It's wonderful to see that the art of contemporary poetry is thriving.
Poetry is perhaps the most subjective of literary art forms. As such, it can be difficult to judge objectively, since poetry in many ways demands more of the readers imagination and involvement.
Our judging panel definitely proved this to be true, with a huge variation in their preferential rankings.
However, 3 of the poems were very well supported across the board. I bring to you the winning entries:
Winner ($100): I Hate You, by avrgblkgrl
Second Place (Gold Membership): Exempt, by Possibly
Third Place (Silver Membership): Aftermath, by shrpsf
Honourable mentions go to the following authors and their excellent entries:
Ti Amo, by gilrenard
My Gift, by ChrissieLecker
House of Mirrors, by Delphi
Soft Lamps, by elliotlacey31
A Valentine's Fantasia, by playsit
Nicola Allows Me One Cliche, by flytoomuch
Drive Mad, by TheScheherezadeFeint
Kisses On Dew, by adagio_sabadicus
One last time, by JWren
Your Valentine Gift, by BethanyFrasier
The Feast Of Saint Valentine, by Green_Man
Two Snowflakes, by SheriPie
Flood of Fires, by bigbubblygurlnc
Thank you all for making this poetry competition a great success. We are sure to run another later in the year.
Cheers,
Nicola
Poetry is perhaps the most subjective of literary art forms. As such, it can be difficult to judge objectively, since poetry in many ways demands more of the readers imagination and involvement.
Our judging panel definitely proved this to be true, with a huge variation in their preferential rankings.
However, 3 of the poems were very well supported across the board. I bring to you the winning entries:
Winner ($100): I Hate You, by avrgblkgrl
Second Place (Gold Membership): Exempt, by Possibly
Third Place (Silver Membership): Aftermath, by shrpsf
Honourable mentions go to the following authors and their excellent entries:
Ti Amo, by gilrenard
My Gift, by ChrissieLecker
House of Mirrors, by Delphi
Soft Lamps, by elliotlacey31
A Valentine's Fantasia, by playsit
Nicola Allows Me One Cliche, by flytoomuch
Drive Mad, by TheScheherezadeFeint
Kisses On Dew, by adagio_sabadicus
One last time, by JWren
Your Valentine Gift, by BethanyFrasier
The Feast Of Saint Valentine, by Green_Man
Two Snowflakes, by SheriPie
Flood of Fires, by bigbubblygurlnc
Thank you all for making this poetry competition a great success. We are sure to run another later in the year.
Cheers,
Nicola
