Post by clc on Jun 1, 2009 16:55:39 GMT
Hello inspiring sims members; today i would like to ask your opinion on the serious issue of our hosting site.
Are you happy to stay with our current hosting service or would you be more happy to move to a new hosting servce(vbulletin).
My thinking behind this is that vbulletin is a much better host(in my eyes) and provides lots of advantages.
Of course there is downsides to changing host and could be a slight inconvience to members as we would all have to resign up and we would lose all our posts.(most of the posts e.g downloads can be simply copyed and pated anyway).
Also vbullentin costs money(just below £200) i will be able to pay us the intial payment which should last 1 year but after that all updates i would need abit of help with; but obv that would be donations and up to the individual.
But there are many upsides, such as for users who have told me about issues getting to the site or not at all as it takes a long time to load. Also there will be a better profile for you all so you can message each other without pms(will still be able to pm). we can have groups become threads and still have all things we have here(execpt the lottery and money to spend in the shops).
We only have 166 members here so hopefully it wont be to much trouble for you t all just resign up if you would like to(would send email with the new link).
AS you can see there is upsides and downsides to changing. Which is why i am asking your opinion as the members here what would you prefer we do?
Thank you very much for your help, if this does happen i hope to have it up and running by the 7th of july.
Are you happy to stay with our current hosting service or would you be more happy to move to a new hosting servce(vbulletin).
My thinking behind this is that vbulletin is a much better host(in my eyes) and provides lots of advantages.
Of course there is downsides to changing host and could be a slight inconvience to members as we would all have to resign up and we would lose all our posts.(most of the posts e.g downloads can be simply copyed and pated anyway).
Also vbullentin costs money(just below £200) i will be able to pay us the intial payment which should last 1 year but after that all updates i would need abit of help with; but obv that would be donations and up to the individual.
But there are many upsides, such as for users who have told me about issues getting to the site or not at all as it takes a long time to load. Also there will be a better profile for you all so you can message each other without pms(will still be able to pm). we can have groups become threads and still have all things we have here(execpt the lottery and money to spend in the shops).
We only have 166 members here so hopefully it wont be to much trouble for you t all just resign up if you would like to(would send email with the new link).
AS you can see there is upsides and downsides to changing. Which is why i am asking your opinion as the members here what would you prefer we do?
Thank you very much for your help, if this does happen i hope to have it up and running by the 7th of july.