Impending Doom!

[TG]

Actually not. This is good news!

As you may or may not know, Rainy has been hosting the forums for us for the past 3 years on his dedicated server in Germany, out of his own pocket. Sadly, he now needs to relinquish the (now) old and cranky box, which means that the site no longer has a home.

I have ordered a new (reasonably potent) server for us, from the same provider. The server is on a 100mbit connection, and sadly they have limited our bandwidth to a paltry 2000GB. If we reach that threshold in a month, our speed gets dropped to 10mbit. Villains!

I am busy preparing the new server, and as soon as it is ready (which will be VERY soon), I will take the forums offline, and move the site. The actual move shouldn't take too long, as the servers are in the same data centre (I think), however it may take 24-48 hours for the DNS entry to update, depending on your ISP's DNS server (If you use OpenDNS, I can get them to force the update).

With this new server, I am able to offer web hosting to clan members, either for your own personal page, or for your business, at no charge. Please PM me if you would like to make use of this, or if you want more details. NOTE: Clan members only! And you may make use of it whether you donate or not.

Obviously, the server itself comes at a cost, and the software that runs the forum has an annual support fee, which I am covering out of my own pocket.

If you were to make use of the server as a hosting platform, I would ask you to please consider making a donation (either once off or regularly) towards the upkeep. Even if you don't intend taking me up on my offer, any donations would still definitely be welcome.

All donations will be tracked. Donaters will remain anonymous.

[Darnit696]

Solid! A bigger brighter world! Very nice TG.

A big thanks to Rainy for quietly footing the bill over the last couple of years. I know that you would have also not have said a thing about it but unfortunately for you, you have some big mouthed friends.

So finally after all these years of non payment of my non subscription I finally get to see some service.

The web hosting magoodie sounds like a plan.

[Voicy]

If we donate, do we get fBlue back?

[Noodle]

If I donate can I get the power to Ban Voicy once a month

Sounds perfectly fine to me tg.

[TG]

Just thinking about it, there may not be any recognition for donaters. I don't want people to feel obliged to donate. Although if you donate, I'd like to know who you are so I can keep track of it.

[stinkthumb]

Thanks TG! Sounds like a brilliant plan. Can we buy advertising space on the site with our donations? Shotgun the top banner!

[TG]

Advertising has also been considered, yes.

[WondaWoman]

ooooh a personal webpage dedicated to my Wondafulness! What an idea!!!!

[veer477]

What Voicy said

[Arbythep00nage]

Hooorays teegee, does I get a shell to mess wiff stuff?