Frank The Tank

extract from current update for regular joe soap readers from Mr Orsm

Hello girls and boys and welcome to Orsmnet for your regular dose of free, uncensored entertainment. If you're new to this, my comfortable little corner of the internet, then you'll soon be asking yourself where have you been and how on earth did you ever get by without it. This may also lead to other questions such as 'what do I do with this thing?' and 'is it meant to be that small?' but I can't guarantee that.

This little site-o-mine has been here for around 3 and a half long years now. Considering how fast the web moves you could probably say that the site is the equivalent of a '40-something' about to embark on a mid life crisis. In a very loose sort of way this brings me to my next point although you will have to give me a couple more paragraphs to explain why...

Lately some of you guy's have been having problems accessing shit around the site. You may get the little red X in place of an image that you were expecting or maybe get an error message and redirected to another site while trying to view a video you wanna watch. This is an unfortunate effect of us trying to stop people stealing bandwidth from the site.

What does that mean exactly you ask? It's pretty simple but there's a story behind it so I suggest grabbing a beer first. Around the middle of February my credit card got invoiced TWICE by my hosting company. I was pissed off - just like that the cost to run this site doubled. After a polite 'please explain' I was even more politely informed that I had been pulling rude amounts of bandwidth and the additional invoice amount would stand.

We immediately started investigating ways to cut down. We put a few tools into play and it started to become apparent that countless [and I mean countless] files were being linked directly from Orsmnet and used by other sites. Here's how it works... someone sees a set of pics they like somewhere on the site, they note down all the links to the images and post them on various forums across the net or directly on their own site! The images then show up on their page all without anyone knowing that they are coming from my site. I've found entire sites built just using images and vids being linked directly from Orsmnet!


This tends to snowball too. On several occasions all it took was a set of 20 pics being listed on an extremely busy forum in Asia for dozens of other forums to copy cat and start linking them too. Within a few hours those images had been viewed tens of thousands of times, all whilst I was fast asleep and I'm the poor fool that gets stuck footing the bill. This is known commonly as bandwidth theft.

Further investigation revealed that this was just as much a problem with the videos I post as it was/is with images. The thing about videos is that not only are they hard to protect but because they are generally larger in size they obviously consume more bandwidth.

Imagine for a moment that a 5 megabyte video gets downloaded 50,000 times from an update - sounds like a lot but it's all been previously taken into account and allowed for. Now imagine that some fucker comes along and watches the vid on the site. He or she likes the vid and reckons they'll get a laugh by posting it on their favourite forum somewhere. All of a sudden a few thousand more people watch it and then a few of them post it on other forums and so on and so forth. All of a sudden thousands of extra people are watching this vid and chewing up my bandwidth without coming to the site which means the advertising on Orsmnet never gets seen...

Take a wild stab how sites like mine survive? If you guessed advertising then you were right... off to college you go, brainiac! All these little methods and measures that I'm putting in to play are only so effective and people will always find ways around them. My point is that eventually it'll all end badly wont it? I cannot possibly keep the site going if I don?t have the opportunity to advertise... which brings me to finally announcing the decision I came to some time ago...


The next update of Orsmnet will be the last update you will see in this current guise.

As of approximately 4 weeks time Orsmnet will be changing to a subscription based website. That means to access any of the content you will need to purchase a membership. Pricing has not yet been finalised as we are still negotiating with a number of credit card processors for the best deal for you and us.

First I should answer the question you all probably want to know which is "why have I chosen to do it this way"? The answer is made up of three reasons. 1. It will allow me to secure every file on the site by making the only access to them by being logged in. 2. I can renegotiate with my host and bring my costs down now that the site will use less bandwidth & 3. I can make the site almost advertisement free by relying on subscriptions to cover costs.

Since early December I've been working closely with the guy's behind NewbieNudes.com to rebuild the site almost from scratch. When the third [or is it fourth...?] version of the site launches in a month it will have absolutely shit loads of new content, new sections and an entirely new look and design. In other words we're going out of our way to make membership well worth it!

This is huge step for the site and I'm sure one that won't be entirely popular but in order to evolve it must be done. For too long I've been feeling as if everything has stagnated and it was time to move on but working on this project has rejuvenated my interest like never before. Anyway, I'd love some feedback - good or bad - on what thoughts you guy's have on this. Email me here.

Have you guys checked out NewbieNudes.com? There are some crazy hot chicks on there just posting hard core pics & vids of themselves each and every day. A lot of the time they take requests in the live chat too. NN has over 50,000 totally free pics with over 300 new[bie!] ones added each day - check it out!

I can think of two reasons why you haven't checked out Revenge TV yet. First up it's because you are new to the net and haven't heard about what will long be remembered as one of the greatest sites to ever be surfed. Secondly, because you are a spastic. This is truly the ultimate revenge site - thousands of vids and pics of ex's that managed to leave a jilted lover in their wake. How does that jilted lover get his own back? Revenge TV is how! Click here to see what I mean...

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