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Recently we have experienced a huge increase of traffic on these forums. And although that is wonderful news as more people find us, it also presents us with a problem.
Right now, we are on a free server. The board has recently been giving members fits. Some members who have been here forever are now back to awaiting email notification, internal server errors are popping up, and other error messages are being noticed and reported. The board is very close to possibly crashing.
In an attempt to stop this, last night I removed several threads that were not cat related, or life related. They were quite long and so I thought that in removing them, I would take some of the burden off the board and stop the Internal Server errors some members were getting. I was wrong in my assumptions (I am not technical when it comes to computers)
What I found out this morning is what causes problems for the board are the photos that are being posted as attachments on the threads. Attachments are stored in the TCS files and take up space and cost money to store.
So what I am asking members to do is to not attach photos that are not cat related to your cats on your threads from here on in? Attachments are when you post pictures using the "attach file" feature.
You can post as many pictures as you like using the IMG tag above your post.
This brings up another sticky problem regarding the Valentine's Day thread- once these card start going up- then this is also going to put a drain on the system and cost money. Could someone come up with a viable alternative? Perhaps someone with some time on their hand could receive all these valentines via email and do a website with them and then post the link? I don't know? What I do know is this forum is very important and I would hate to see it crash and go away.
We can go to a dedicated server at the cost of $200.00 a month- which means we would have to ask our members to pay for membership, and really, who has the money to do that?
As much as I know how all of you who post love it here, I am sure knowing that you had to pay $5.00-$10.00 a month to come here, might dampen your enthusiasm. I know it would mine.
This is not meant to be directed to anyone personally, this is a new problem that has just arised and I was trying to figure out a way around this problem and this seemed to be the first step to help ease the pressure of this board's traffic.
Those of you who got PM's from me last night about your removed threads I offer my apologies, I thought I was doing the right thing, but text does not cost us anything to put here, it is the pictures, and the graphics that are draining the system and costing Anne more money a month. I will be returning the threads to the board as soon as this goes up. I hope I did not hurt anyone's feelings, I was simply trying to avert a problem coming down the pike.
Thanks!
Right now, we are on a free server. The board has recently been giving members fits. Some members who have been here forever are now back to awaiting email notification, internal server errors are popping up, and other error messages are being noticed and reported. The board is very close to possibly crashing.
In an attempt to stop this, last night I removed several threads that were not cat related, or life related. They were quite long and so I thought that in removing them, I would take some of the burden off the board and stop the Internal Server errors some members were getting. I was wrong in my assumptions (I am not technical when it comes to computers)
What I found out this morning is what causes problems for the board are the photos that are being posted as attachments on the threads. Attachments are stored in the TCS files and take up space and cost money to store.
So what I am asking members to do is to not attach photos that are not cat related to your cats on your threads from here on in? Attachments are when you post pictures using the "attach file" feature.
You can post as many pictures as you like using the IMG tag above your post.
This brings up another sticky problem regarding the Valentine's Day thread- once these card start going up- then this is also going to put a drain on the system and cost money. Could someone come up with a viable alternative? Perhaps someone with some time on their hand could receive all these valentines via email and do a website with them and then post the link? I don't know? What I do know is this forum is very important and I would hate to see it crash and go away.
We can go to a dedicated server at the cost of $200.00 a month- which means we would have to ask our members to pay for membership, and really, who has the money to do that?
As much as I know how all of you who post love it here, I am sure knowing that you had to pay $5.00-$10.00 a month to come here, might dampen your enthusiasm. I know it would mine.
This is not meant to be directed to anyone personally, this is a new problem that has just arised and I was trying to figure out a way around this problem and this seemed to be the first step to help ease the pressure of this board's traffic.
Those of you who got PM's from me last night about your removed threads I offer my apologies, I thought I was doing the right thing, but text does not cost us anything to put here, it is the pictures, and the graphics that are draining the system and costing Anne more money a month. I will be returning the threads to the board as soon as this goes up. I hope I did not hurt anyone's feelings, I was simply trying to avert a problem coming down the pike.
Thanks!
