Tell me your suggestions. If you have any ideas about the momentary situation we have @ the moment? Please leave a comment.

A single Pound/Dollar/Euro (whichever) from anyone who visits any TechConnect site over the next three weeks, who can afford it, and has ever gained invaluable knowledge from any of these sites, would surely save the day. That's not much more than a chocolate bar for goodness sake. Perhaps it should be the 'Chocolate Bar Rescue'.

Hi its Eric Johnson from http://www.geforcezone.com

We are about to post a message about your situation, providing a link for people to donate.

We hope everything works out for you guys

- Eric

Hey, this is Aron from ASE Labs ( http://www.aselabs.com ). You've got my news post as well. I hope everything turn out okay.

I don't have high hosting costs (yet), so I'm not going to even say I know what your going through.

you could try a dollar a month membership fee....but then you should really evauluate your advertising costs adn increase the charge....you might try to incorporate more hardware revues and get sponsorship from vendors and manufacturers....this will take alot longer then three weeks to develope but after that hurdle you might rethink the focus.....if your gathering free information for easy download its very useful but i doubt amd or epox blah blah blah really think of this site as they would say anandtech or hard copy....just a suggestion

how about casino ads? they pay a lot

"Paying/Donating" to use a site doesn't work. look at stomped.

Plenty of sites have gone on the old "Please donate & help us" & failed. Just get over it & move on.
Sorry to see you's going like this but I shan't be throwing money down the toilet on this.

It's YOUR website/network & as such, YOUR resposibility to keep it profitable.
If a local store of yours/ours in going out of business, do you see them begging for money cos they couldn't run a profitable venture? No.
Well, neither will I for a website.

Again, sorry but just close up & move on. Do not try get anyone else to waste their money.

Anon:

your advice is honest and straight-forward but I can't understand why you can't e-mail your message but publish it in an open forum?

did you lose your life-saving in the i-shares collapse or operating another web site trying to step on your peers?

you suck, if you do it intentionally

soil he is right....a little more tact may have been a good thing but it is the truth....i was in buiness for 20 yrs and no one ever 'gave' me anything

Lets recall what degger said at the start "Tell me your suggestions. If you have any ideas about the momentary situation we have @ the moment? Please leave a comment."

My comment was left. Blunt or not, I'd rather not try wrap up what I think is cotton wool to make it any nicer. If you can't find a way to get out of the hole you dug yourself, tough.
If you want to support a website you click on ads. If you want to support another busines you buy their goods. You do not however "support" them by throwing away your money wastefully on them for "nothing".

Of course, I would also like to add that I *do* like the site. Just ad clicks are enough for me. I don't mind a single pop-up at all either.

I do not "leave" site because they use pop-ups unlike some. I just do not feel anyone should have to go beyond that to show support. Did you see Enron looking for spare change?

Anon: The problem with your comparison to a store is that stores sell things to make thier money, warp2search no income except for it's ad banners. If you've looked at any of the banner ad servers, you'll notice that at the moment they are paying virtually nothing for clicks, certainly no where near enough to pay for the bandwidth used by a site like warp2search.

Donating a dollar to keep a site you obviously read and use up and running, at least until they find a new way to get some more sustainable income isn't going to send you broke... at least I hope not.

I'd be quite happy to pay a $1 or a $2 monthly subscription fee for visiting this site. I know many people are happy to have ads springing up all over the place, but I can't stand it. I filter all my web access through WebWasher precisely to avoid all the ads.

Addition to my last post:

I would guess that most of the bandwidth used by Warp (and I've run high-bandwidth sites in the past) goes on the downloads. Most of those files are available elsewhere, i.e. manufacturer/publisher's websites, so why not just link to their files pages rather than offering downloads locally. That would cut the cost of bandwidth considerably.

This scenario is one that is somewhat related to the current revelation among news/magazine sites that are changing to a monthly subscription service because they are now not/less profitable due to the internet advertising becoming less and less profitable.

To be honest I would not hesitate to donate money IF I knew that enough people would also donate to ensure warps future. As is I don't think that will happen, as charity (very justified in warp2search's case) very often falls on deaf ears nowadays.

The only way I can see it working is to go with the subscription service as previously mentioned. I definetely would sign up for that.