I think it'd be a good thing if I explained why YWS was shutdown in May:
MONEY
Short and simple, just money. There were other reasons of course, but it all came down to money. If I could have afforded it, I could have just ignored the site, as I did quite often. I've even left for months from YWS and left it in the hands of Galatea, Jack, and the mod squad. I could've done that, and everything would be fine.
But, the site was costing $55 a month, and ads were covering only $10 of that. I was able to afford that until I got an apartment. But after I got the apartment, I couldn't afford trash bags much less a website.
Fortunately enough, in June I managed to get my finances under control, consolidated my student loans, and got a large raise at work. In July, I sold all of my stock that I had in one company, and made a very decent profit doing so. So by late July, money was no longer an issue and I brought back the site.
After doing some research, I found that only GoDaddy and a few others limit the size of your database. So I found one that didn't, moved YWS to that, and now the site costs are only $8.96 (then $12 by October). Essentially the site costs nothing for me anymore.
SPECULATION FROM THIS POINT ON!
If YWS is shut down again in the future, it'll be because of money. However, because I discovered most hosting providers don't limit your database size, it's very unlikely that the site will shut down. The only way I could see YWS shutting down is if the amount of bandwith I'm alotted each month gets out of hand. Right now, YWS runs through about 30 gigs of bandwith a month when the hosting provider allots me 200 gigs.
Fortunately, if YWS ever reached 200 gigs, one would think that there'd be a similar jump in ad revenue, so I could afford to move the site to it's own dedicated server (which is what I would have to do at a cost of about $100 a month). A dedicated server usually gives you 200 gigs to 500 gigs of bandwith depending on your plan.
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