I received an email today informing me that Dogster and Catster will be shutting down in March. The reason was they can't compete with FB and Twitter, etc. Guess not enough ads or sponsors to keep the sites up.
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I'm so sorry you are losing your community. I can't imagine if that were to happen here.I have been on Catster for several years. They didn't give much warning. I have spent hours printing and saving information on my four cats, two are angels now. It is a wonderful community and so much advice was given. Support was amazing. It started just with a community and then they added commercials and a magazine online. Our community should have left then but we stayed for each other. I will miss the place but we are going to Facebook and other sites.....
I host with a website that gives me unlimited traffic for $15.00 per month. I have a website and used to have a forum as well which I closed some years ago because I had some people stalking me on the internet and causing trouble. If it wasn't for that I would have kept the forum up.
I could afford $15.00 per month, so I didn't have ads on my site or forums, and didn't require membership fees. So I guess it all depends on who you host with.
I have to say, the $15 gave made me chuckle
Is it really that expensive to host forums? I haven't done so in many years, but I don't recall it costing much. I'd be concerned that shutting the community down would have a dramatic negative impact on the success of what remains operational.