Fine Figure of a Man
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Anyone here know what happened to the Reloader's Nest website?
Reloader's Nest
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berettaprofessor
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Merely the words "Reloader's Nest" drew me to this thread. I didn't know it was a website. But....Reloader's Nest just has that nice comforting ring to it, doesn't it?
I noticed they had stopped allowing people to sign up a few months ago.
Seems to me that if they were having financial or staffing problems, they were big enough and comprehensive enough that they could have put up a pay wall and started charging for subscriptions.
Seems to me that if they were having financial or staffing problems, they were big enough and comprehensive enough that they could have put up a pay wall and started charging for subscriptions.
VAReloader
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I rarely if ever saw a combination I was looking for on there.
I found Handloads Online far better.
I found Handloads Online far better.
someguy2800
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I've seen loads on both that were frightening to the point I never went back
ArchAngelCD
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I agree, Handloaders is a much better site.
illinoisburt
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Completely agree! Threads with "and the 45LC easily surpasses the 44 magnum using..." or "a few grains over book" too common for me. Sorry, I enjoy all my digits and limbs.
Leatherstocking
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Never looked at the load data, but the forum was interesting. Lots of very knowledgeable guys contributing.
The site has been in trouble for a while. Maybe a year or so ago, they changed to a new format, members had to register again, lots of members lost then. Then nothing but trouble with the new format; think the site was hacked?? Then back to the old format... not much traffic there lately...lots of days not one post.
I’ll miss some of those some of those guys.
The site has been in trouble for a while. Maybe a year or so ago, they changed to a new format, members had to register again, lots of members lost then. Then nothing but trouble with the new format; think the site was hacked?? Then back to the old format... not much traffic there lately...lots of days not one post.
I’ll miss some of those some of those guys.
I started there before I found this place and I was told a few times to try stuff that was over book. It turned me off from there and several people seemed to get upset when you would ask a question or not fully understand what they were trying to say so I moved on to here and glad I did. Once I found this forum I never went back to the nest.
To the OP: I remember a few years ago when I was there the site owner said he couldn't afford to run the site anymore so this might be why it folded. In all seriousness does it really cost a lot of money if any to have a forum?
AZAndy
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Not the OP, but I'll stick my nose in because that's just how I am. Webhosting costs do depend on how much traffic there is, but it should be less than $100/yr. I've run forums for $60/yr, but they weren't high-traffic.
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Fine Figure of a Man
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I liked the site and referenced the load data quite often.
No doubt some of the unverified loads were questionable.
I always cross reference and never start at max with any data from any source.
No doubt some of the unverified loads were questionable.
I always cross reference and never start at max with any data from any source.
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Fine Figure of a Man
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They had a lot of data. I would be great if it could be posted somewhere.
Dudedog
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(no offense intended in my response to this)
Don't know the numbers but I maintain servers for a living. (200+ lose track of the exact count after 50
, (some physical, some VMs) 300 something switches, 20 or so routers)Got to have power to run them.$
Generally need to be kept cool, $ for AC
Got to have a decent pipe to the world otherwise everything is slow $
Parts wear out, Hard drives are the main one $
Parts fail, Fans, Power supplies, memory, CPU, System boards, RAID controllers etc. $, computers wear out.
If you have UPSs to keep the servers up in power outages/power flicks, they need new batteries about every 3 years give or take $, if you have generators, they have to be maintained as well. More $
Have to pay for software $ (sometimes it's free/opensource)
Backups just in case........(Na we don't need no stinking backups
)Someone has to take care of all the above, maybe no money but time, time and more time, time = $ (even if someone does it for free)
Network equipment to keep everything connected, switches, routers, firewalls etc.
It's not a case of plug in in, turn it on and your done.
So having said that,
I appreciate what the staff of THR does to keep everything up and going for us.
A BIG THANKS guys.
OOpppssss
Left off giving credit to all the moderators who spend time taking care of it for us, Kudos to you all!
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Sunray
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"...does it really cost a lot of money if any to have a forum?..." Ask your ISP how much it costs to have your own site. Don't forget that it costs to have a domain name.
reloadersnest.com is paid up until June, 2018 though.
"...all the moderators who spend time..." On a voluntary basis.
reloadersnest.com is paid up until June, 2018 though.
"...all the moderators who spend time..." On a voluntary basis.
It depends on the size and whether you're going to host it yourself or pay someone else.
My closed membership forensic site (< 100 members) cost about $60 to register, $40 a month in bandwidth and third-party support and security; the server farm cost about $3,000 and adds probably $15 a month to my electricity bill. If you are going to have thousands of people on-line at any moment then you've not only got costs for hosting and operation, but you have to recruit and monitor a cadre of moderators, so between direct costs and the time commitment, yes, it can easily become something too burdensome for someone to want to mess with.
Na we don't need no stinking backups
The oldest of my servers (dating from the last century) does not have either a redundant or hot-swapable power supply or hot-swapable hard drives. The cooling fan for the power supply is making noise indicating imminent failure. I'm hoping to carry on until the Holidays when I can bring the site down in an orderly fashion and retire that server. So, one again, the intarwebs ain't free.
Guitarmike
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Sorry for continuing the off topic topic, I manage 3500 Windows and Linux servers for my company, it doesn’t really pay to own web servers anymore. We use Microsoft Azure quite a bit and cloud computing is the only way to go if you want a website or online forum. That said I would think most forums are hosted at a colo, and costs were in relation to services used. SQL, backups, dr, and bandwidth all add up to the monthly rate it costs to run a forum. I’d guess a busy forum could run up to $150 per month.
no offense taken dog. They say you learn something new every day. I figured it was just someone sitting at home, created a website and they just update, etc. I'm not a computer person so didn't know all that stuff went into it.(no offense intended in my response to this)
Don't know the numbers but I maintain servers for a living. (200+ loose track of the exact count after 50
Got to have power to run them.$
Generally need to be kept cool, $ for AC
Got to have a decent pipe to the world otherwise everything is slow $
Parts wear out, Hard drives are the main one $
Parts fail, Fans, Power supplies, memory, CPU, System boards, RAID controllers etc. $, computers wear out.
If you have UPSs to keep the servers up in power outages/power flicks, they need new batteries about every 3 years give or take $, if you have generators, they have to be maintained as well. More $
Have to pay for software $ (sometimes it's free/opensource)
Backups just in case........(Na we don't need no stinking backups
Someone has to take care of all the above, maybe no money but time, time and more time, time = $ (even if someone does it for free)
Network equipment to keep everything connected, switches, routers, firewalls etc.
It's not a case of plug in in, turn it on and your done.
So having said that,
I appreciate what the staff of THR does to keep everything up and going for us.
A BIG THANKS guys.
OOpppssss
Left off giving credit to all the moderators who spend time taking care of it for us, Kudos to you all!
Dudedog
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Just food for thought, when was the last time THR was down?
Can't remember, preventing downtime costs $
I added that ohihunter2014 because I may have seemed a little harsh, sorry
I think that $150 a month number is way low, but I am used to having my servers and my data where I can touch them.
Can't remember, preventing downtime costs $
I added that ohihunter2014 because I may have seemed a little harsh, sorry
I think that $150 a month number is way low, but I am used to having my servers and my data where I can touch them.
A shooter/reloader on the east side of Jersey wanted information on chamber casting so he found his way to the Reloaders Nest. could not believe they treated him in a manner rather rude so I contacted him off line. First I apologized for the bad behavior and then I started him out on chamber casting. And now he is right up there with the best of the chamber casters.
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