DMUSIC SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP ENHANCEMENT DRIVE, FEATURING UNLIMITED UPLOAD PLANS

As many of you know, we spent a lot of time and money this year migrating to new servers, fixing bugs, recovering crashed raid arrays ( which was partially unsuccessful - we still have 30 gigs worth of mp3s to sort out), and more. Why, may you ask, do we bother? We are not getting rich from this, and we can't compete in traffic or features with Myspace or Youtube or LastFM. etc. Well, we believe the mission that we started in 2001, to maintain an independent music community after the demise of mp3.com, is still valid, only more so. Media consolidation is even worse now, and there is no guarantee that even we can survive it. But we continue to try. Survival itself is a strength. We have avoided the VC route so far. I believe thats why we are still here. But it does limit the speed of growth.

Now its time to go to the next stage - to moderize the site by adding the new features that we have spoken about all year - particularly selling downloads, allowing more page customization and adding video. So we have decided, before considering taking on additional investors, is to sell MEMBERSHIPS and MEMBERSHIP ENHANCEMENTS with UNLIMITED STORAGE for music and pictures.

for $150 per year:
For current subscribers, if your purchase a ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP ENHANCEMENT for $150.00 in addition to your regular subscription, we will take all restrictions off of your account . For one year, you get virtually unlimited storage for music and pictures, and 20 bands or collaborations that you can be in. And if you choose to not renew your sustaining membership, your tunes will stay on your page nevertheless. (You just won't be able to add more until you purchase more storage at a our regular prices). Sustaining members will get all new site enhancements in beta, and get guaranteed front page exposure, AND MORE...

for $500 one time payment:
Current subscribers will be entitled to a "Virtuoso" account for 3 years including all the One year enhancements (above) AND a free website hosting account AND MORE...

for $999 one time payment:
We are offering a limited number of "PRODUCER" 7 year unlimited upload accounts with 3 free webhosting accounts, 50 band or collaboration accounts, all for a one time payment of $999.00. Upload all your test mixes, beats, various bitrates, partial tracks, beats, logos, pictures (and soon, videos and pdf files). PRODUCER members will get all new site enhancements in beta, and get guaranteed front page exposure for at least three weeks a year, guaranteed Shoutcast Radio play at Dmusicradio.com, and the option of inclusion of at least two tracks on our forthcoming FILM SYNC LICENSE DEMO DISK project, containing a hundred MP3s going out to our film industry contacts, (which has so far resulted in one track being included in the forth coming BRAD PITT/CATE BLANCHETTE movie "Benjamin Button"); and three free webhosting accounts ...AND MORE...

We believe that Dmusic is one of the best independent music destinations and collaboration spots on the internet, and we want to make it even better, with your help. These enhancement plans are for current subscribers, but its easy to subcribe, ( http://Dmusic.com/subscribe ) so get started today!

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* For all these plans, Dmusic reserves the right to terminate the enhancement with 10 days notice, if Dmusic's Terms of service are violated, or if the bandwidth requirements of the site are drastically increased ( more than fivefold). In the latter event, all enhancement fees shall be refunded.

I hope DMusic does prosper and grow but I don't imagine there's going to be a rush on the $999 or $500 dollar options right now, especially in this time of uncertainty, and especially when we can't guarantee longevity of 5 or 3 years.

I think the packages are a bit overpriced too IMHO, although those requiring unlimited storage may disagree. The regular subs you have (to which I subscribe) seem (to me) to represent a much fairer and realistic way to do things and offer a heck of a lot. For a thousand dollar investment, I'd want a seat on the Dmusic board

Good Luck with the fundraising though.

I cant even afford the 150 dollars

I don't mind 25$ for 3 months or 50$ for 6 months etc. We are heading into a recession, the USA is probably already in one, having a pocket full of spare 100 dollar bills is not very common right now... gas prices, food prices soaring, property values declining (in the USA).

We were asked to price unlimited plans.

Besides, with that attitude, I am surprised you pay your income taxes. Isn't the world suppose to end in 2012?

Hell, check your Google email:

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Not mine. Oh well. At least Dmusic notes are working

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Google Apps hit by prolonged Gmail access problem
by Juan Carlos Peréz
August 7, 2008, 10:49 AM — IDG News Service —

A technical problem hit an undetermined number of Gmail users, including paying subscribers to the Google Apps hosted software suite, locking them out of their accounts for about 15 hours on Wednesday and early Thursday.

Google first acknowledged the problem in the official discussion forums for Gmail and Google Apps shortly after 2 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday and declared the problem solved at almost 5 a.m. on Thursday.

A Google official posting status updates on the Apps forum wrote that the problem affected "a small subset" of Apps users, without being more specific.

More than 500,000 businesses and universities with about 10 million active users have signed up for the free and fee-based versions of Google Apps.

The problem, which also affected stand-alone users of Gmail, made it impossible for users to log in to their accounts. They got a "502 Server Error" message when they tried to log in.

In the main Google Apps Discussion Group thread devoted to this incident, administrators complained loudly about the length of the outage and the lack of status update details offered by Google officials.

A "502" error hit Gmail on July 16 as well, and also led to a long outage for affected users, according to postings in the discussion forums.

A day before this week's problem struck, Dave Girouard, president of Google's Enterprise unit, talked up Google Apps at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum.

Girouard said Google has big plans to aggressively expand the features and capabilities of the suite, while keeping the price of the Premier fee-based version at US$50 per-user annually.

Google, Salesforce.com, IBM, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard and other major vendors are big backers of cloud computing and the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for delivering applications and computing resources via the Internet.

However, outages that leave users without access to such a basic business tool as e-mail for extended periods of time spook business and IT managers considering Web hosted software like Google Apps and cloud computing offers like Amazon Web Services.

When something goes wrong with the hardware or software in the vendors' data centers and the performance and availability of the software or computing services are affected, there is little that IT and business managers can do but wait for the problem to be solved, while their end users complain and demand information and solutions that are out of the IT department's reach.

"Seriously...It has been two hours. Can you provide us with another update? For a company with your reputation, I'm absolutely shocked at the apparent absence of customer service," wrote a Google Apps administrator on the discussion forum on Wednesday. "This amount of down time is unacceptable."

Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment.


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Gmail outage August 8th,
Gmail outage August 8th, 2008 - I'm writing at 3 p.m. PST and my gmail has been out for over an hour. Is this technical problem still going on? I checked out trustsaas and it says Gmail is fine. ???
by Anonymous (not verified) on 8/8/08 at 6:00 pm | reply
Hello: I am in Prague, Czech
Hello: I am in Prague, Czech Republic. 10:29AM, Aug.10.
I am unable to access my gmail account. on my laptop. However, I can access it on my moblie phone. Does anyone have any ideas. Please advise.
by AB (not verified) on 8/10/08 at 4:32 am | reply

Its back.

Wasn't there a 12 dollar option for us poor people...I mean I'm all for supporting Dmusic but I just don't have 25.00 to spend right this minute.When I can I do and will but right now things are tough..I guess I can still use the free option and for that, yes I am appreciative..

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