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Steve, first of all thanks a lot for understanding the issue and sharing it with everybody. It is getting harder to continue keeping this service alive with ever increasing traffic and almost non-existent donation support. I was thinking about working on a premium membership system solution and will update this thread when something comes up.
BTW, I would like users to vote this up who are willing to enroll into this and also get their recommendation about what could be a feasible monthly membership cost for such service.
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Hi, Steve again...
I can see that there has been very little feedback so far so I thought I would drop by and try to
boost things up a bit with regards to monthly subscription amounts. A bit of a long post but bear
with me...
First, a little maths observation for the readers of this post ;)
I just checked out a quick google search for the costings on high bandwidth servers, and I see
that they can cost anything from around $200 up to around $400 _per month_, which gives 10Gb
unmetered bandwidth (just an example, some servers may cost a lot more)
I am not sure of the server set-up for Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express, however the cost of
running it and maintaining it is probably going to be in the same ball-park.
Now if just 20 people donated $10 per month, that would give $200 per month towards server costs.
If 40 people donated just $5 per month, then that would also total $200. If 100 people donated
just $2 per month then that would also total $200.
Following this progression, the more people that donate, the less each individual person will have
to pay, until the final target is reached. For example if 200 people donated just $2 per month,
then $400 will be received to cover server costs.
I am certain that there are more than 200 people across the world using a youtube download
service, and I am fairly certain that there are more than 200 people using this particular
downloader.
Therefore, if only a small percentage of the total people using this service actually donated no
more that $5 each, the amount received to support the server would be more than adequate, or would
at least go a long way to covering the monthly running costs of the server.
Keeping in mind that even if this monthly subscription is optional, when it is run side-by-side
with the current option of donating a "one-off" NON-subscription amount, there should be enough
people donating over the course of a month to cover a large part of the monthly costs involved in
running a high quality, high bandwidth server for millions of youtube users, whilst still keeping
it free to use for the majority of low-quality-video requests.
Remember that the fees involved are aimed at supporting the huge number of requests received for
downloading HD 1080p videos, which require back-end stream encoding and which required a large
bandwidth to transfer to the end-user, especially when the length of the video is very long.
Nobody likes waiting for slow data transfer, and at the present time this version of the Youtube
Downloader has a very fast download time with low ping-rates.
It is there for your convenience, please support it ;)
I hope that this presents a compelling argument to anybody reading this, apologies for the length
of the post.