This forum was founded in 2001 (internet archive), and has been an invaluable source of information and help for over 24years and during this time the forum has always been free for anyone to join and participate.
Following on from Mel's post, as it stands one person is paying out of pocket for the hosting and domain renewal, but that person is retiring from the role. I/we would like to try and keep the forum online and avoid all of the incredibly invaluable information contained within this forum being lost. So off the top of my head we have following options -
- Someone takes over the hosting and domain costs in their entirety.
- I setup some kind of crowd donation page and ask for donations, over-donation would simply be saved for the following years costs etc.
- Or I try and figure out how to migrate the entire forum to a Raspberry pi or Mini Pc, and cover the cost of the domain name myself.
The annual hosting and domain name cost, is about the same a pair of tyres. Most of that is the hosting cost, which can probably be reduced, if I can figure out how to safely reduce the amount of space the forum is using. [/size]
]I'm a computer engineer in my day job, but I know very little Linux. MyBB, hosting and domain forwarding would all be an almost vertical learning curve for me. And that's before I even look at the feasibility of doing a migration from online to local hosting.
Following on from Mel's post, as it stands one person is paying out of pocket for the hosting and domain renewal, but that person is retiring from the role. I/we would like to try and keep the forum online and avoid all of the incredibly invaluable information contained within this forum being lost. So off the top of my head we have following options -
- Someone takes over the hosting and domain costs in their entirety.
- I setup some kind of crowd donation page and ask for donations, over-donation would simply be saved for the following years costs etc.
- Or I try and figure out how to migrate the entire forum to a Raspberry pi or Mini Pc, and cover the cost of the domain name myself.
The annual hosting and domain name cost, is about the same a pair of tyres. Most of that is the hosting cost, which can probably be reduced, if I can figure out how to safely reduce the amount of space the forum is using. [/size]
]I'm a computer engineer in my day job, but I know very little Linux. MyBB, hosting and domain forwarding would all be an almost vertical learning curve for me. And that's before I even look at the feasibility of doing a migration from online to local hosting.