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The server issues we had last week reminded me we still have to move to another ISP. I talked to swingue and he has no other significant sites on this server so he wants to terminate the contract and I agree with that decision.
That said that means our years of free hosting are over ![]() First I'd like to ask you if you know any good and not to expensive ISP's. At the moment we're using up 16GB of serverspace (yes, that's quite a bit indeed) although I suspect we can prune in old uploads and reduce that with 25%-50% or so. Still I suspect we'll be pushing the 10GB limit still and should we host at my regular ISP we'd be facing a € 70,- a month (excluding VAT). I think cheaper options are available and hope you can help. VB forum software is a second issue. We're running a rather old version atm and it seems smart to upgrade, even for security reasons only. Here we'll be facing a $195 investment as well, although I feel that's worth it for the quality of the VB software. We could look at other free alternatives (like the phpBB I installed on the temp site) but we'd face another difficult migration then and I feel VB is easier and better in terms of admin and mod control as well. But before I buy anything I'd like to hear your opinion on VB and better alternatives should you know any. Finally I'd like to say that I really like CDZ for what it is, a small fun community where rules can be relax and I'm willing to keep paying for that. But looking at the total costs we're gonna face I would appreciate people chipping in. Just like it was in the very old days when CDZ had a donation programma it will be on a voluntarily basis only. I'll start a new paypal account for this soon and post details. For the really old crowd PLEASE DO NOT USE THE OLD PAYPAL ACCOUNT WE HAD BACK IN 2005!!! I can't access that anymore, only anarres has the log in credentials and he's disappeared from the face of the earth. Regards PP
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I'm more than happy to chip in, but 70 euros a month seems like a steep price.
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I garee with Shabba.
There are perhaps 15-20 people wiilling to pay something?
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As always I am willing to chip in. And vb seems best, gareed.
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+ 1. Would be nice if it has e-mail / webmail facilities as well.
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I also want to chip in.
I'm getting .70 EUR per CAD right now. Although not as good as the 0.80 of last year, it's way better than the 0.60. I had in December 2008 the last time i travelled in Europe. Maybe I can wait until Greece goes bankrupt. I may be able to play twice as mutch.
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@Beam I really like that too, so I'll be looking into email options as well. I don't expect that to be a problem though as most hosting packages include a lot of pop accounts these days as does VPS hosting.
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Dunno, we get it for free.
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I am not a techy nerdish freak like all of you guys but Googling ISP vergelijken (Comparing in Dutch) got me dozens of results. Some for € 25 a year! That sounds realy cheap compared to € 840,- a year, but hey!
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