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Originally posted by rowan
You'll find it hard to rid yourself of this traffic. If you divert it away then you risk killing off your trades, since part of the traffic they send won't be counted - AND often langs like zh will click more than average. Some webmasters may not be too happy about you shunting away their traffic either.
I started a thread on another BBS a while ago about an 'en only' alliance, which would only allow a select group of languages to be traded. It never really took off because it would require that support to be in the trade script.
I ended up concluding it wasn't worth it, bandwidth is cheap now and the alliance sites would be more difficult to grow with a limited set of trades and surfers who didn't click as much.
My 120k TGP costs less than $200/mo to host, including the server. I worry about other things now. 
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Yeah, it is cheap. I have a TGP that costs me about $100 to host a month and it is making me about $800 a month. I have another that costs about the same and it is making a grand. I have several more that cost about $50 or less and make about $400. So yeah, I do come out with a lot more profit than I put in. My point is that these people in other countries make up only 6% to 10% of the BUYING public, so why are we giving them a free ride? They consume over 50% of the BW!
A EN only network. Sounds real nice!
You know, the nice thing about all of this is that I am using the traffic right now as fluff to grow my smaller TGP's. This means that the people who bought this shit traffic to grow their TGP's are now growing mine for me. But I'd rather convert it into better cash.