[EVO 4G Android Development] Unleashed2k:
My last post as this thread: We had a dedicated team of beta testers that date back before this website. I run the website, not virus. Beta test team tests it, but if you really want to do it as well, that's why we have the 'donation' thing.

It's completely optional because we already have a team of beta testers.

Here is the group stats.

Beta Testers: 67

Donators: 199

So if you wanna get pissy, get pissy at me, not Virus. It's solely my work. I just wanted to make things easier for him, and it's working.

It was a harder process to do the beta testing way the email way, with 30+ users. I jumped on that and my friend Jason (we rooted our phones together) hooked me up with virus's contact info.

I asked him if he wanted a website, and I told him it would be easier to have a centralized way for people to beta test. I created our first site at virusroms.com with phpbb. Then with that site up

people wanted to donate to us, and become a beta tester. So we setup the donation system and that's how it was born. It was born by the community itself. Obviously we outgrew phpbb and with the secruity problems

phpbb poses we used community donations to upgrade to vBulletin. vBulletin is a server hog and I had to upgrade from my reseller package to vps. Then I was overloading the server too, with spikes up to 6ghz. On top of that

our website was being blacklisted by sprint because of the word "virus" in the url. We had to change our domain to InfectedRom.com. I found a cloud web hosting service called ASmallOrange and moved there. Now we're completely smooth.

Current server load which is really low as we was maxing out the server. Anyways..

I am 21, with no work looking for a job and this was an opportunity to help myself out, and help someone else out.

Virus and I agreed to do this website and here we are now, pretty damn successful.

When your site goes from 0 to 1,000 members in a week you know you've done something right.

But seriously it's not even really about the money for me, it's about being dedicated to my phone and helping out someone who needs the help.

The money -does- put food on the table for me, the google adsense money is great, and support from the community is amazing.

We had a guy donate 100$! That severely helped keep our website up and our server good for a whole year. Now we can focus on other things.

Virus is one of the nicest people i've ever worked with or met. He goes out of his way to help me out most of the time and in return I help him any way I can.

Regardless, I want to end this with a happy note. Our community has 2,294 members, over 3 million page 'hits'.

We have active users in both genders. We also have people who donate even after they donated, 20$ or more monthly.

Last month the day before christmas we raised around 370$ for the server and was able to pay for it for a full year. We didn't expect any money at all.

The money for our donations are used for two things: The website (vbulletin license, forum skins, server, etc), & personally. I get a small (sometimes large) portion of the donations

because i've been working hard on the site and at the same time struggling money wise. Virus didn't have to send me anything, but he does. All the other money goes directly to virus which I would assume

would be to buy the new phones he plans to develope on (EVO SHIFT, and he already has the EPIC 4g now) and also for his family/bills/etc since he has a busy life.

Anyways I am ending it like this. If anyone has any questions they can contact me multiple ways.

unleashed2k@gmail.com, or through the forum. I'm always here to help anyone if anyone needs help.

Thanks everyone for their continued support. Virus and I appreciate it so much! For the users who do not like our system, I am sorry that you disagree with our methods.

- Mark Beeson (Creator of VirusROM/InfectedROM.com for XxXVirusXxX)

VirusROM/InfectedROM Community Admin