08-26-2010, 05:10 PM
Dear Admin,
For the last days it has been incredibly difficult for me to access but mainly to navigate through the site (as I think has been for many of u too).
While I know nothing about programming, systems, hosting and the like, am goint to give some thoughts:
1. You have always financially supported this site for yourself. If money is an issue for moving the site out to new servers/hosts, maybe you could ask for donation from forum members. Most of the members will understand that either they donate money, or the site may be gone forever. Donation can be to an account in PayPal that you could open.
If don´t want to open this to all of the members forum, you could ask for support for VIPs, Moderators and up, although the number of members able to donate would be evidently small.
In the past (when used to have time left...) I used to navigate through the site S O F T archive and they wen´t through the same. They ended up solving the problem asking for donation from the members, and the last thing I knew (2 years ago or so) they even bought 2 servers and changed hosts with the money rised. You still can see in their site a small pig with the legend "Please donate. Help keep this site going".
2. If at the moment the site is overloaded with users, maybe you can consider closing down new members registration temporarily. If number of members keep increasing everyday, the overloading will get worst.
I don´t know if those are real options, but may help.
Best regards,
For the last days it has been incredibly difficult for me to access but mainly to navigate through the site (as I think has been for many of u too).
While I know nothing about programming, systems, hosting and the like, am goint to give some thoughts:
1. You have always financially supported this site for yourself. If money is an issue for moving the site out to new servers/hosts, maybe you could ask for donation from forum members. Most of the members will understand that either they donate money, or the site may be gone forever. Donation can be to an account in PayPal that you could open.
If don´t want to open this to all of the members forum, you could ask for support for VIPs, Moderators and up, although the number of members able to donate would be evidently small.
In the past (when used to have time left...) I used to navigate through the site S O F T archive and they wen´t through the same. They ended up solving the problem asking for donation from the members, and the last thing I knew (2 years ago or so) they even bought 2 servers and changed hosts with the money rised. You still can see in their site a small pig with the legend "Please donate. Help keep this site going".
2. If at the moment the site is overloaded with users, maybe you can consider closing down new members registration temporarily. If number of members keep increasing everyday, the overloading will get worst.
I don´t know if those are real options, but may help.
Best regards,
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein