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As most of you are well aware, today our growth finally reached the limits of our current hosting plan and the site was plagued with database errors, slow performance, double posts, and other problems. I've been fighting with this and trying to come up with a workable solution literally all day, from 8am until now, 3:37am.
I've known for a while now that our current host wasn't cutting it, but I was really hoping we wouldn't have to make the jump to the next level until after we were able to secure additional sponsors in order to stabilize our revenue. As everyone saw today, we can't wait for that any longer. After spending the last six hours researching hundreds of webhosts, I just got off the phone with the one I've selected to be the new home of NWFA.
The migration from our current host to our new one is going to be difficult. There are many potential problems along the way, but I'm confident we can pull it off. I ask all of you to please bear with me during the next seven days during the transition period, the results should be well worth the wait. I hope to have everything switched over and fully functional by Tuesday, January 20th. Downtime should be mimimal, but likely.
Once this migration is complete, it should be comparable to us trading in the NWFA Kia Rio for an NWFA Corvette. Unfortunately, along with the upgrade comes increased cost; double to be exact. To attempt to offset this added burden I'm going to be working on making t-shirts and decals available for purchase as soon as possible. Those of you who have supported us so far, I really appreciate it.
If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm going to get some sleep
I've known for a while now that our current host wasn't cutting it, but I was really hoping we wouldn't have to make the jump to the next level until after we were able to secure additional sponsors in order to stabilize our revenue. As everyone saw today, we can't wait for that any longer. After spending the last six hours researching hundreds of webhosts, I just got off the phone with the one I've selected to be the new home of NWFA.
The migration from our current host to our new one is going to be difficult. There are many potential problems along the way, but I'm confident we can pull it off. I ask all of you to please bear with me during the next seven days during the transition period, the results should be well worth the wait. I hope to have everything switched over and fully functional by Tuesday, January 20th. Downtime should be mimimal, but likely.
Once this migration is complete, it should be comparable to us trading in the NWFA Kia Rio for an NWFA Corvette. Unfortunately, along with the upgrade comes increased cost; double to be exact. To attempt to offset this added burden I'm going to be working on making t-shirts and decals available for purchase as soon as possible. Those of you who have supported us so far, I really appreciate it.
If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm going to get some sleep