# Admins message to members.

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**Created:** [January 13, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/admins-message-to-members/262285 "2012-01-13T14:01:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/admins-message-to-members/262285/34 "2012-01-17T13:30:30Z")

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> [@WTB: asap 5.0 mustang exhaust!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-asap-5-0-mustang-exhaust/47893/5):
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> In all honesty what exactly does it cost to keep a site like this up? And who gets the money?
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> I know youre probably gonna say some hosting company. What about cutting out the middle man and just throwing a site up on its own? Is that possible?

> [@Oh look..another Honda](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oh-look-another-honda/47899/7):
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> For the most part, yes.

Much harder to do by avoiding a hosting company.

1. You still have to pay for DNS
2. You have to have a Web Server setup at home which is on 24/7
3. You need ample bandwidth to make the site even remotely useable by this size of a community

He’d still be paying decent money. Cutting out the hosting company isn’t a solution.

As for the topic itself…I do agree that this forum is by FAR the most lenient of any I’ve been on. Also, some of you people act like children. Not even kidding. It’s hilarious at times, and down right sad at other times.

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