just curious
 

hi, i was just curious to know. . . Who started yorkietalk? is admin the person who started it? and where is it run from? a private residence? and what is teh monthly cost of a site like this?
I was just curious, because i am absolutly clueless on how a site is run and put together. I think thanks is due :D
In all my postings i have never really thought about it before (not surprising, im not the only one to take stuff for granted) :rolleyes:

i am like 99.9 % sure it was Fast Eddie. i heard that a few times. and its yoda's pic on the top of the page.

Megan is correct. :)

Those are good questions now you have me wondering!!! :rolleyes:

makes you go...hmmm
 

Very good question... ;)

and interesting indeed...lol :rolleyes:

Yes, YorkieTalk was started by fasteddie as well as Yoda's Mommy (who stays behind the scenes) almost two years ago. The first post was made on January 5, 2004. Here is the thread:

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...1-welcome.html

The YorkieTalk Web server is currently located in the Los Angeles, CA area, thus we were affected by the LA power outages earlier this week. The group of people that run YorkieTalk now consists of several administrators, three moderators, and many others that donate their time and effort to writing guides or are active in our live YorkieTalk chat. Without our wonderful members, YorkieTalk would be nowhere as useful and popular as it is now. We appreciate each and every member. It pains us a great deal to suspend or ban any member, but we have tried to be rule-free in the past, but it was not very successful. We had total chaos when we had no rules.

Monthly costs vary per month, as our members use up quite a bit of bandwidth per month and especially since everyone likes to view Yorkie pictures. We do often have to hire technicians and database gurus to help when we have problems, which we do quite a lot with a site this large. We have already gone through three server upgrades because of how much YorkieTalk has grown, and it looks like we will be upgrading once again shortly. Web servers can be quite expensive to maintain. For privacy reasons, we prefer to keep any financial information private.

YorkieTalk will always continue to be a free site for members. It will continue to be free unless it somehow becomes financially impossible for us to run it. We appreciate all donations (large and small, as any donation helps) that are made by members. Donations are used to keep the site running and to also help add new features to YorkieTalk. They are not required nor expected of any member. We would never want someone that is financially strapped or in financial trouble to donate, as they have other pressing issues to deal with. If you do feel that YorkieTalk is worth donating to, please do donate. If not, that is fine, continue to enjoy YorkieTalk as you do now.

Thank you for the kind words, our goal here is to educate and share Yorkie information, pictures, and funny stories, of which every Yorkie owner has a few of. We thank you for being a member and hope that you enjoy being a part of this Yorkie community. If you are not enjoying YorkieTalk, we apologize, and would like to say there are other places for you around the Internet to discuss Yorkies and we hope that you find a place that you find more enjoyful.

wow.... thanks for the in depth reply, i am astonished taht in addition to your everyday lives you still have teh time to run this forum, that is amazing. . .

Thanks Mr and Mrs Admin and Yoda! You're pretty amazing and you must be full of love for people!:) \:yorkietal :hug:

Donations are used to keep the site running and to also help add new features to YorkieTalk. They are not required nor expected of any member. We would never want someone that is financially strapped or in financial trouble to donate, as they have other pressing issues to deal with. If you do feel that YorkieTalk is worth donating to, please do donate. If not, that is fine, continue to enjoy YorkieTalk as you do now.

Why then do we have to pay $50.00 per dog to sign up for GE? This is the only dog chat site that does this and I've never seen another site ask for donations. They make the money from all the advertizements you see all over the site.

How do you become a moderator. You can see by the number of posts I've posted that I'm on here all the time, and would love to help out. Thanks

The Gift Exchanges are a special bonus for members that donate. It is a one-time $25 fee to be a Donating Member which would allow one Yorkie to participate in our YorkieTalk Gift Exchanges as long as we have them. Every Gift Exchange we run takes many hours to process, compile information, and assign Secret Buddies to each participant.

We do not know how other sites are run, again, donations are completely voluntary here and are not required. Members can share Yorkie pictures, ask questions, search for information, play games, or ask for wanted items for free. There have been several instances where people join the Gift Exchange but NEVER send out a gift which is unfair to everyone, thus we started requiring members to be Donating Members before they can join the Gift Exchange. YorkieTalk has made sure that each and every Yorkie that participates in the Gift Exchange has gotten a gift, even if their Secret Buddy fails to send one.

Moderators are chosen by the YT administrative staff. Thank you for your offer, Yorkiekids.