Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by martin:

Posted by BRIGGS:

Posted by martin:

Hi BRIGGS.

We were down yesterday for a couple of hours and then we were down last weekend while the both of us were out of town. We think something is messed up with our firewall.

I guess we should set up a distribution list or something when we go down so that everyone does not think we have shut our doors and gone to a third world country.

Why does everyone take it so personal when we have a snafu?

Martin--this is the only website that I could not access on the net for over a week. I knew it was down but when it came back up I still couldnt enter. I cant enter the website via the url--I have to use a proxy[which took an idiot like me time to figure out]

usually that means something else on your end has changed. We haven't made any changes on our side.

Martin,

Is your firewall blocking any ip address ranges? Maybe BRIGGS ip address is in one of those ranges.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by eViL:

Posted by martin:

What do you guys think?

Should we open a tip jar and accept some donations and then put this site up on a hosted environment where it will go down less (hopefully never)?

Yeah. You should. This site has so many visitors, both regular posters and lurkers -- that it shouldn't require much from every individual to kick in a little and have it total out to a lot.

I'm more than willing to make a donation.

Posted by JohnWallace44:

Martin, you should look at ways to generate revenue from the site if its just meant to maintian the site, or if its to give you enough dough to buy a place on the South Fork.

If you want to create merchandise that can be sold on the site I can help you figure out ways to do that. The company I work for runs Sports Illustrated's merchandise development and sales. Making some sweet UK shirts, jerseys etc, shouldn't be too tough.

You should be able to sell advertising space on the site as well. One banner on each page isn't going to kill anyone. Maybe Bangbros would buy some space.

Posted by martin:

Posted by BasketballJones:

Posted by martin:

What do you guys think?

Should we open a tip jar and accept some donations and then put this site up on a hosted environment where it will go down less (hopefully never)?

I think it's a good idea. I don't suppose the google ads are enough to cover it? Is there a co-location facility nearby? I've got a box in a colo for $100 a month. Of course, it is a rack-mount machine, which you probably don't have... You could also look at managed hosting.

I guess the first thing would be to find out how much it's going to cost & see if it's reasonable to expect that much in donations, then maybe setup a pay-pal account and ask for donations. Or sell UltimateKnicks T-shirts and caps or something like that.

Also, people who donate should get an icon and special powers on the board .


[Edited by - BasketballJones on 08-25-2007 14:33]

I've never co-lo'ed before... what are the down sides to it? do you have a server and firewall or just server? We do have a rack-mountable server right now.

Posted by JohnWallace44:

Martin, you should look at ways to generate revenue from the site if its just meant to maintian the site, or if its to give you enough dough to buy a place on the South Fork.

If you want to create merchandise that can be sold on the site I can help you figure out ways to do that. The company I work for runs Sports Illustrated's merchandise development and sales. Making some sweet UK shirts, jerseys etc, shouldn't be too tough.

You should be able to sell advertising space on the site as well. One banner on each page isn't going to kill anyone. Maybe Bangbros would buy some space.