stevestojan Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Scott pays money to keep this site running. But lately, during games, it doesn't hold up. He has zero reason to keep this site going other than to keep this distinctional group of fans in one spot. During games, the site crawls. So let me be the first to offer up $200. Who will come together and help? You know you use this site daily and server space isn't free. Starting at 200. Every penny counts. Who's in?
phypon Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I say get a new host, possibly new board software and setup a donate button. Donate could be via PayPal. I'll donate. The site performance really is horrible. Def need a new host though.
thewildrabbit Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Is this site in the Bills red zone in the second half? predictably slow, and takes forever to work.
boyst Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I don't have much but I would offer up a heifer, maybe a steer if you talk me in to it. I'll throw in a couple bucks, too.
BilLions Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Click on the ads and that will help with revenue.
smuvtalker Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I am willing to contribute. It will have to wait til payday though, you see my checking account is linked to my savings account, and then that account is.... Seriously though, I love this site. I will contribute something just because..
PolishDave Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Can I donate some deer meat.... a doe maybe? Shotgun opens Saturday......I can mow em down....
Pilsner Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 t We need a "donate" button. I agree. I'm willing to throw in some $ too. This site has brought a lot of good people together. I'll throw in a Pilsner too for what it's worth.
stevestojan Posted November 14, 2014 Author Posted November 14, 2014 Donate button seems like the best idea. A pinned thread with a Donate button.
Max997 Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I say get a new host, possibly new board software and setup a donate button. Donate could be via PayPal. I'll donate. The site performance really is horrible. Def need a new host though. I agree with this approach as it's how another board I belong to handles it and seems to work well enough to where they don't even need ads on the site. There is def something going on though as the performance has really dropped last few months
bbb Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Good thing we never make the playoffs. It was impossible to get on here after the Music City MIracle. I'm in for a donation for sure.
SDS Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Bandwidth isn't the issue. The size of the database is. There are two true ways to deal with this. 1. Buy another license to offload 3 million posts. 2. Get a cloud server (I am sort of out of my league here) so that when we need more hardware additional resources can be used for that event. This should be more efficient since we only need those resources less than 100 hours a year. But it is difficult for me to price that out because of the way it is done.
eball Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Bandwidth isn't the issue. The size of the database is. There are two true ways to deal with this. 1. Buy another license to offload 3 million posts. 2. Get a cloud server (I am sort of out of my league here) so that when we need more hardware additional resources can be used for that event. This should be more efficient since we only need those resources less than 100 hours a year. But it is difficult for me to price that out because of the way it is done. I think there a lot of folks around here who would pony up on a subscription basis to keep things running smoothly. And hey, if you charged a subscription for such things as posting rights some of the riff raff might even disappear.
SDS Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 But in the first case I don't know how that really can be done because you'd have to synchronize certain parts of the database so that user names etc. were functional. In fact the more I think about it I doubt it could be done.
xsoldier54 Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 I'm willing to help out as well. Just add the donate button that others have suggested and I'm in.
HOUSE Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) I asked NDBUFFCUSSFAN to donate a few bucks, he said &BU^$% #&&$T#%%....R$%%^&@# ... no! .. Edited November 19, 2014 by HOUSE
BillnutinHouston Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 If a payment mechanism is announced, I'll pay up.
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