Well... Calvin's employer (who hosts our server) is going through some financial troubles... like the rest of our world...

So we will be needing to find a new home for our server.

We really have no sort of budget for hosting... so hopefully someone here can hook as up with reliable service like Calvin did. Even so... anything thats dirt cheap will do.

Calvin will reply to this with details on what sort of bandwidth/etc well need.

I know many of you work for ISP's so help us out!

Ideally, we have a few weeks for this. But as with everything in life... the sooner the better.

[ 08-06-2001: Message edited by: soopa ]

 

$40/set-up, $10/month for 500 megs of server space.... green box's site is using this.

[ 08-06-2001: Message edited by: Dyno_CL-S ]

 

naa, we have a server.

we just need a place to co-locate it.

basically, we just need some bandwidth somewhere.

 

soopa,
might want to try www.burlee.com. They're hosting a site i have. So far so good.

 

I also have www.burlee.com Love it! No problems yet!

 

whoa, small world There service and prices are pretty competative. If we need to organize some kind of money thing again, i'll send some in.....didn't do it last time and so i need to make up for it

 

Yeah let us know if you might need some $$. I did it befor and I could do it again...I would hate to see this place go down!

 

Hey guys, well things are really shitty here. I was one of the last few people left. We need to move the site ASAP before they shut it off. Right now they don't know about it. That is Corp. Reliant does not know about it but they will in the next week or so. I can only hold them off for so long then its game over. I am not really in the mood to talk right now but I can say I will be back in a few days.

 

what kind of bandwidth are we talking about ?

 

Just FYI...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.ht...ne/tech/993962

 

sorry to hear about that calvin...

 

its too bad, i have my own server on a t1 but cannot add another server to the line, maybe host the site on my server, but sounds like you would like to use your own

 

I gto $10 for ya Soop....just tell me when you need it...

 

nothing a hub cant fix
no one would have to know

 

Any chance of a possible “KISS & make-up” with the TL guys ???

If not, I have no problem at all with making this a PAY site.
I have learned so much here (and hopefully shared some knowledge as well) it would be well worth it to me.

Shawn S

 

Hey Calvin,
Drop me a note, haven't talked to you in awhile, if there's anything I might be able to do for you let me know.

-Johnny

 

OMG!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

toker you okay man?? i know exactly what you going through. went through it twice. last job they layed off everyone except me and 2 other guys. this job went from a team of 7 to 3. lay off's SUck

 

hmmmmmm

[ 08-07-2001: Message edited by: kbslacker ]

 

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t4807.html

 

is there a reason why u put a link to Automotiveforums ? I'm just curious

 

Adam, now you know all you had to do was ask Give me a call (908-222-7207) and we can chat about putting you on our server.

 

W/T, sorry to hear about this little "speed bump" in your journey. Believe me, it's no more than that. If there is anything I can do to help, just let me know. Be it ACURL-CL.COM, or personal. I am happy to do all that I can.

 

There seems to be some confusion.

We don't need a web host...
We don't need space on a server...

We have a server! We simply need to find a socket with bandwidth to plug it into.

We need to slip it into a server farm somewhere. ANYONE?

 

Thank you Rock....couldn't have said it any better.

 

Well - I love this board as much as the next guy, but here's a reality check.

All the "inexpensive" colocation providers are dying painful deaths - as 'toker knows all to personally.

So IMHO, you have to ask yourself if you HAVE to use your own server, or if you could run it on another server.

If you find co-lo space, then that's fantastic. If I still owned my ISP (www.fcol.com - sold it a few years ago), I'd drop it in in a microsecond.

A lot of other co-hosting facilities offer the type of service you're looking for - but they charge outrageous prices.

So - you have a decision to make. 1) Let the site die (I'd pay a bit of a tithing every month) 2) hope and pray someone comes forward with rack space or 3) share a server until you DO find the rack space you want.

Option 3 allows you to continue to run in a less than desirable mode until you find just what you want.

My bets are on option 3.

IMHO.

 

{BUMP}

This is a fairly FUCKING important thread.

 

YES it is...we cant let this place die! I have goton to much helpful info from here! What can we do to help?

 

naa, they are in the same boat... they were being hosted by Calvin too.

Like Rock Dog said... we already have a machine and everythings all set up... we just need to find somewhere to plug it in

I'll do some shopping today... if we have prices perhaps then we can find a way to pay the bill every month.

Yes this is very important... but dont worry too much just yet.. well figure something out.

Oh & BTW... we wont be partnering with anyone... or switching servers... or selling off. We just bought a $2000 machine for this site... I want to get more then a month of use out of it!

Ron, if youve got bandwidth somewheres lemme know. Or are you just being hosted elsewhere?

[ 08-07-2001: Message edited by: soopa ]

 

whatever you need soopa, the soliders of this board are ready to throw down Fists or money.....

 

FYI

Just to let some of you lurkers know, I called this company today to get a quote and more details. Their web site is somewhat misleading (you must read the fine print). The "unlimited" space refers to HTML code only. My web site is over 400 MB in size, this includes videos and graphics as well as HTML code.

Here's the problem:

The Company's "unlimited traffic and storage" offer is to provide the Company's customers with storage space and bandwidth for active Web pages and cannot be used as a "storage space" for electronic files. An example of sites that fall under "electronic storage" are large archives of images, compressed files, movies, or sound files. The Company permits up to 15 megabytes of archive storage, e.g. avi or wav files, images, compressed files, shareware, games, programs, etc.. All HTML pages MUST be linked to files (HTML, .jpg, .gif, etc.) stored on Company's server and vice versa.

The Company does not permit sites in the Unlimited Plan where 20% or more of the monthly traffic is from file downloads, or sites that use more than 10% of system resources, or sites which in the Company's view are detrimental to the enjoyment of the Company services by the Company's other clients, or are in the sole and final judgment of the Company, detrimental to network or business operations.

 

yeah, the cheapo plan isn't that good. I was going to use the unlimited plan but i went with the next best plan.

 

Damn...I love this place! You guys were very helpful to me on various car issues. I would like to thank you all. Calvin sorry about your troubles....I mean can we all pitch in still have the site with Calvins company? Im ready to put in some money.

 

What type of bandwidth is being used right now?? Average and peak??

 

Unsure, Calvin needs to chime in... but I havent heard from him since I posted this topic yesterday.

Hopefully all is well with him.

 

I would'nt pay to use this site. Hell no. I cannot even get Soopa to respond to my e-mails, and I already donated $10.

 

Yeh, same here. I donated $20 and he has never cashed the check, nor will he respond to my e-mails. Oh well, after 6 months the check will be void and I won't have to pay $20 to cancel it.

 

So how do we stay in touch if they pull the plug in the middle of the night? Soopa, do you have emails on everyone? I guess we could reassemble over at Honda-Acura.net. You think they'd have us back?

 

we'd probably bring their server to its knees.

 

Hey guys, just FYI, the site gets about 5000 visitors a day, thats vistors not hits. The bandwidth graphs say we are running at a average of 350 - 400 kbits per second.

 

god damn.. you guys need some serious bandwith, good luck