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September 7th, 2010 |
Author: Editorial
Echoing the words of Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, the Temasek Review has become a “victim” of our own success as our surging readership far outstripped our limited resources to maintain the site.
The Temasek Review was previously run by rotating teams of volunteers who contributed to its servers out of their own pockets, but its astonishing climb in readership means that it is no longer feasible for it to rely solely on advertising in the long run.
Referring to the post by our reader Forecaster Extraordinarie II dated 25th August 2010 entitled, Temasek Review has Singapore Press Holdings to thank for their success, Temasek Review was then ranked 74,089 in the world and 199 in Singapore.
Ranking as of 26th August 2010
Our readership have multiplied ten-fold since our last appeal for donations towards a new dedicated server on 16th August 2010 (Temasek Review needs a new server urgently). Temasek Review is now ranked 63,930 in the world and 162 in Singapore, moving up the charts to surpass TodayOnline who is now ranked 203 in Singapore, considering the fact that TodayOnline is owned by MediaCorp and has full-time journalists and techinical staff manning it.
Ranking as of 7th September 2010
With the rapid increase in readership, our servers are constantly running at near its maximum capacity during peak hours causing a noticeable decline in access speed and longer site loading time.
Success comes at a price and Temasek Review urgently needs a new server to offload and balance the increase in traffic which is expected to increase tremendously come Election Day.
The deployment cost of the planned new server is US$1,300.00 and we have only managed to raise US$674.85 in donations as of 6th September 2010 (excluding the cost of the TemasekVPN server which is on consignment arrangement). The lease for the new server will be paid for by our advertising revenues.
As much as we would prefer not to, we are now stuck in an awkward situation whereby we may be forced to start banning accesses by Country instead of just network blocks. We might even need to continue banning Singapore ISP’s netblocks if the situation worsens.
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do at the moment due to financial constraints but in the meantime, we would like to say a big “THANK YOU” to those who have donated towards our new server and would like to appeal to our other readers to please support our site by making a token donation if you believe in our cause.
Readers interested in making a donation can do so with their Credit or Debit card which will be processed by our payment processor, MoneyBookers. All information submitted will be kept strictly confidential, none of your payment information will be stored on our server except email address.
Alternatively you may also support our site by ordering a TemasekVPN from us at a discounted price of US$60.00 for 6 months, click for more information.
Thank you in advance for all your support towards Temasek Review.
Molina Han
Managing Editor, Temasek Review
* Please note that we DO NOT accept PayPal and our previous PayPal account is no longer in use.
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Echoing the words of Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, the Temasek Review has become a “victim” of our own success as our surging readership far outstripped our limited resources to maintain the site.
The Temasek Review was previously run by rotating teams of volunteers who contributed to its servers out of their own pockets, but its astonishing climb in readership means that it is no longer feasible for it to rely solely on advertising in the long run.
Referring to the post by our reader Forecaster Extraordinarie II dated 25th August 2010 entitled, Temasek Review has Singapore Press Holdings to thank for their success, Temasek Review was then ranked 74,089 in the world and 199 in Singapore.
Our readership have multiplied ten-fold since our last appeal for donations towards a new dedicated server on 16th August 2010 (Temasek Review needs a new server urgently). Temasek Review is now ranked 63,930 in the world and 162 in Singapore, moving up the charts to surpass TodayOnline who is now ranked 203 in Singapore, considering the fact that TodayOnline is owned by MediaCorp and has full-time journalists and techinical staff manning it.
Ranking as of 7th September 2010With the rapid increase in readership, our servers are constantly running at near its maximum capacity during peak hours causing a noticeable decline in access speed and longer site loading time.
Success comes at a price and Temasek Review urgently needs a new server to offload and balance the increase in traffic which is expected to increase tremendously come Election Day.
The deployment cost of the planned new server is US$1,300.00 and we have only managed to raise US$674.85 in donations as of 6th September 2010 (excluding the cost of the TemasekVPN server which is on consignment arrangement). The lease for the new server will be paid for by our advertising revenues.
As much as we would prefer not to, we are now stuck in an awkward situation whereby we may be forced to start banning accesses by Country instead of just network blocks. We might even need to continue banning Singapore ISP’s netblocks if the situation worsens.
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do at the moment due to financial constraints but in the meantime, we would like to say a big “THANK YOU” to those who have donated towards our new server and would like to appeal to our other readers to please support our site by making a token donation if you believe in our cause.
Readers interested in making a donation can do so with their Credit or Debit card which will be processed by our payment processor, MoneyBookers. All information submitted will be kept strictly confidential, none of your payment information will be stored on our server except email address.
Alternatively you may also support our site by ordering a TemasekVPN from us at a discounted price of US$60.00 for 6 months, click for more information.
Thank you in advance for all your support towards Temasek Review.
Molina Han
Managing Editor, Temasek Review
* Please note that we DO NOT accept PayPal and our previous PayPal account is no longer in use.
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