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Unless [mention=491]Nick1[/mention] wants to pay a premium since it's crypto and I'm trying to get my crypto stack up. Then again, none of my licenses are transferrable unless I renew one of my older ones.

All mine, sorry. I'm looking as well and will buy on the spot if the price is right.

And when SHTF, you're the type of person I'd run to. I'm sure you wouldn't mind an MRE or silver coins in return for some good messages to be given or passed along. :-P

Most definitely, as I've worked with [mention=36]BRANSOL[/mention] as well, and could leave a positive rating for them too with the extent that they went above and beyond my delivery expectations. And a lot of the content creation team too.

Right now, I just updated my profile info with a seller rating for [mention=529]Eclipse[/mention], but it shows up in my postbit. [ATTACH type=full" alt="1738159389103.webp]1192[/ATTACH] I've also done $2000~ worth of business with someone else (to remain unnamed at this time) who might want to exchange feedback. Trading feedback is integral if you want a market that has some trustworthiness to back up both buyer and seller that could reduce (or eliminate) disputes.

Having been in the food industry, this thing scared the shit out of me. I had to operate it almost daily.

The only ham I mess with is on my sandwich. ;) But to get serious, I am a prepper of sorts, and a radio is on my list. It's lower than my food and alternative money supply is though, as I can always be a "runner" to get a message in/out.

I break my sites up between instances. The most expensive has a base price of $20, but I add backups for $6 (in addition to the other 2-4 backups), another IP for $3, Plesk for $18 (but the longer I work without a panel on new $6 instances, the more comfortable I'm getting to drop it), and $10 for DDoS protection, so $40. I use Cloud computing, so I start at $6 and scale up as needed. If I need a forum to run with XFES/Elasticsearch, it's $10 (as even though ES recommends 4GB RAM, I've optimized it to work quite well on 2GB RAM using ES7 over ES8), plus like $2.50 in backups, so $8.50-12.50 for a new forum to launch. The benefit of this is a dedicated IP and for not everything to go down at once in a failure caused by 1 site. Getting over using Plesk is hard. She's caused my sites to become corrupted twice — having to rebuild them all — as its authentication and whatnot relies on MySQL, and Plesk updates have broken twice on me (when I finally resorted to daily backups over weekly cause the 2nd time I lost way too much data to be comfortable with losing again). I guess you can say I'm still in an abusive relationship with Plesk. I used it over cPanel because it used to be free for up to 3 domains (so I could split sites on different instances and have a free panel), but since the owners of cPanel bought Plesk, they got rid of that license and it's now $18. Altogether with my Cloud bill is like $120-150/mo. It really just depends on if I pop up a new instance (even with high specs to toy with things quicker, like 8vCPU to compile something quicker to get to play with what I really want, shaving off up to an hour of setup time) and getting billed per hour I use it before I destroy the instances. Also, I take full snapshots in addition to backups for immediate redeployment. Plus 10% consumption tax.

Holding music on the phone with my lender... Finalizing a small portion of seed money to make my next 3 intellectual property moves. (Take note: It's better to use OPM [Other People's Money] than your own ;))

Congrats on your 1st anniversary of opening Poker.Community! Administrata has the establishment down as 1/10/2024, but ForumDiscovery takes an approach to assign the established date to the first available public data, which shows the first piece of public content was made on 1/23 (your user profile and/or first thread). https://www.forumdiscovery.com/directory/poker-community.7/ At any rate, Here's to another year, Cheers!

I tend to be on the lookout for what could be some of the best themes while they're crowdfunding and then get in on it with lifetime licenses for multiple domains. You never know if they'll come in handy. I've helped my high-school friends out by setting them up with something better in the past on these licenses, as they stand out from the rest, and doesn't cost me a thing to help friends build their first businesses. As far as WordPress goes, I have StudioPress' Genesis Pro framework and all children themes for multiple domains for like $200, and now it's $360/year for I believe 1 site (?). https://www.studiopress.com/genesis-pr And ThemeCo's X Pro for like $89, now 50% off for $349/yr. https://theme.co/pro#pricing I have others too, but I'd have to dig through my dusty WP folder (haven't used it in a while, but those two still stand pretty tall).

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They don't, but it gives you a clearer idea of how Google sees it, as they use a proprietary ranking algorithm on Google and these metrics are the closest you'll get at understanding Google SERPs. Source: https://www.onely.com/blog/da-and-dr-correlate-with-rankings/

You know me too damn well. 🤣

I was thinking like $25 cause your DR is 25. But if you're serious, I'm going to bed and might sleep on it. Just to give you time to think, too: I did black hat and grey hat SEO far before I took the legitimate route and may or may not possess tools with Rumer in its name. ;)

Yeah that could help. I'm slowly building thousands of backlinks, so I'll be up there in time. First to DR 70 (where it really counts)? 🤔 💰

This is a good feeling, but also tracking analytics encourages me to do more. I've only just started tracking ahrefs DR, but I went from 1.8, 1.9, 2.4, 2.7, and when I started actually logging it, from 3.9 to 4.1 over 2 days. Hopefully, I can crack 20 soon to rank even better. Other analytics such as impressions and clicks (for a CTR) make me examine what could be done differently on individual pages to get a constant flow of better traffic there, and apply the same principles learned elsewhere. It's a constant evolution, but as you said, it takes time.

My approach for a new forum is to have no more than 5 main topics or areas of discussion (nodes/forums) with one being off-topic. Then, sort through the off-topic section to see if there are enough posts to build a sub-forum, or even a new forum, and move those conversations there. I, personally, find a forum with 20+ forum nodes that are all empty unappealing, and a turn-off when they can be condensed down and then eventually grow out of them.

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Welcome to the forum [mention=529]Eclipse[/mention] ! Pleasure doing business with you.

I'm currently putting my technical analysis — that I've learned by trading other securities — to work to flip 1 Ethereum into 2, as my objective is to get ETH and not USD. So far I only made 2 trades over a swimg trade of 2 days: 1 ETH → 3333 USDC 3333 USD C → 1.0145 ETH My next target is about $3400, so 1.0145 ETH → 3449 USDC (or to USDT, whichever has the "best" rate, in that 1 USDT sometimes unpegs to the Dollar and you can get 1 USDT for 99 cebts, which is more favorable when it pegs 1:1, same with USDC), which I missed doing a day ago as I was expecting a breakout. Had I taken that trade then, I'd probably have around 1.035 ETH now. That said, 2 trades with about $50 profit if looking at it from a Dollar perspective, isn't too bad, but I want 2 ETH. Perhaps this would be a great forum for me to log my adventure and the charting/targets I am expecting to take a trade. Is that something that you would find to be useful on your forum? If so, I might log my trades and charting there (lots of images so it could take quite a bit of disk space before I get to 2 ETH).

I prefer to self-host (clarification: a Cloud service provider over something like GoDaddy which would immediately take a site down without question) to protect my sites against people who want to report my site maliciously or try to take it down by contacting the host - they have to go through my attorney before anything can move. 😇 I also pay for mail providers instead of hosting my own so it goes into the inbox and not the spam folder (still doable with self-hosted email, but takes a bit longer to warm up, longer than I prefer). Mail providers tend to side with the person who antes up the big bucks for a subscription. Still, they do (and have) taken away my email ability for a brief period (about 24 hours) as they reviewed the substantiated evidence that shows it's been inaccurately marked as spam. I wonder who could've been behind that attempt to take my mail services offline and where the proud (archived) threads are that demonstrate that and also encourage others to mark it as spam to have gotten it shut off to begin with? 🤔 Suffice it to say, I don't think they'll take their reports seriously anymore (perhaps against any site moving forward) with the evidence submitted that got me back up and running.

I just can't believe that you did it for so long on Windows environments, especially with so many conflicts and workarounds needed (perhaps even with XF and Invision). However, I might've been with you if I weren't a poor teenager at the time. I started developing with ASP and moved to ColdFusion. However, Windows shared hosting was like $20+ more expensive at the time, and a Windows dedicated machine was $75+~ more (with higher setup fees). Had I settled with Windows, it would've cut into my profit dramatically, and at 13ish years old, that was a lot (like 3 new t-shirts I couldn't buy on my own). I don't come from rich roots and my mom struggled to help pay the $10 hosting that I had, supporting my vision until it "worked" and I was making $100+ on my own (her check was $377/mo, but rent was included as it was on-site, but that also kind of made it a 24hr job). I'm still bitter that an adult took advantage of me, as they were an excellent graphics designer and could've made my game stand out against all others (and did), then 3 months in turned off my FTP access/etc. saying I was demanding too much (just 1/2 of the earnings which was 2x more than I was making as he had tier-1 ads with DoubleClick while I could only get on tier-2 or tier-3). I'll never do business again without contracts because of that, no matter who the person is. It was literally our way out of poverty, poof. God bless her for putting stuff on credit and making the minimum payment, essentially never making a dent in her balance; the first thing I did when I got my sales job and 5-figure check was to call up her creditors and secretly try to pay off all her debts (though, for whatever reason, you can't just pay someone's debt... so they had to 3-way call her for permission for me to pay her debts).

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Just got watching Back in Action, on my TV, but through the internet with Netflix... Does that count? 🤔