RIP to rippers

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Sad news, boomgames's ISP has pulled the plug. Some of you may remember boomgames as the site that gave Alexandrie and Jafo so much grief about getting PreLuna down.

http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7912

The site was great for game news but hosting skins seemed to have killed them.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Such is life.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That is the challenge to all skin sites presently. SKin sites have to be careful not to violate the 250K rule.

That is, if the average downloadable item of your site is over 250K (roughly) then you will not be able to pay for your site via banner ads.

The figure can actually be a lot lower but assuming your site becomes very popular, the 150K rule of thumb comes into play.

That's one of the killer things about msstyles, they average something like 600K per download, over twice the limit. Hence any site that has that as its main attraction is going to lose money if it relies on banners to pay for it.

That's why those theme sites out there that have tons of banner ads and pop ups have the same sections: WinAmp, ICQPlus, Wallpapers, Hotbars. They've gotten it down to a science. (example http://www.ezthemes.com/ )
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