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    SITE NEWS - Tonight is the Night

    Just letting you all know that we will go live on the new site tonight.
    I don't have an exact time yet, but I'm guessing somewhere from around 11pm.

    The site will be made unavailable, you will see a maintenance page.
    They will sync the data for the final time.
    When complete they have to point the domain to the new IP address. "Usually propagation is completed in just a few hours, but can take up to 24 hours to complete."

    Hopefully Friday morning we will all be on the new server.

    Unfortunately, (as I expected. I do work in IT as well) we have used up our allocated hours, so I will be charged for some additional time.
    I do have funds for this.

    Thanks for all your support and financial assistance.
    I might start looking for a site sponsor to help out. Any takers?? Any ideas??
    We don't make enough from the google ads to support the site. I could always look at ramping that up, but it is my least favoured option.

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    Ask the Swans to sponsor us

    I'll ask my other half, he works in on line advertising & search media, he may have some suggestions
    Also my PayPal account should be unknotted tonight so I can transfer some funds over
    Chillin' with the strange Quarks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Untamed Snark View Post
    Ask the Swans to sponsor us

    I'll ask my other half, he works in on line advertising & search media, he may have some suggestions
    Also my PayPal account should be unknotted tonight so I can transfer some funds over
    Thanks, that would be great!!

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    Scott,

    Firstly, a big thank you for all your efforts in keeping this site going.

    Re the finances, can you give us some idea of the scale of funding we are talking about ... toto funding required and current gap?

    Good luck with the cutover. I have worked in IT as a program director and know the stress this can cause.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matimbo View Post
    Scott,

    Firstly, a big thank you for all your efforts in keeping this site going.

    Re the finances, can you give us some idea of the scale of funding we are talking about ... toto funding required and current gap?

    Good luck with the cutover. I have worked in IT as a program director and know the stress this can cause.
    Yearly charges are approx $436:
    Hosting: roughly $30 per month ~$360. bandwidth is a variable cost. Obviously some months are cheaper than others.
    Domain: $16 per year
    Plus I've also been advised to start do full site images(backups), these should cost about $5 a month in storage.
    I do DB backups on a weekly basis, but not a full site backup.

    Taking out roughly $100-$150 for the extra work for migration, we still have the next 10-11 months covered.
    We are also doubling up on costs since last week, as we have been running 2 servers (old and New).
    I have to keep the old one for at least 10 days after tonight, but I'll scale it back to the bare minimum tomorrow.

    I hope that answers your question Matimbo


    Cutover should be smooth. I'll be asleep when it happens hopefully.

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    It's done.

    You should not notice any difference, except it does seem a lot faster this morning!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottH View Post
    It's done.

    You should not notice any difference, except it does seem a lot faster this morning!!
    I agree about the speed, and with a few more people posting than usual. It'll be interesting to see how it handles the game thread at breaks and afterwards.
    Good work Scott.
    He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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    Quote Originally Posted by dimelb View Post
    I agree about the speed, and with a few more people posting than usual. It'll be interesting to see how it handles the game thread at breaks and afterwards.
    Good work Scott.
    Yes, Should be much better, but no guarantees.
    Usually away from Sydney games are the big stress tests, or losing to GWS.

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    Truly appreciate all the work you do all the best from old south melbourne supporter great what you do hope it all goes well , if you need coin just ask . Never been so in formed .

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottH View Post
    It's done.

    You should not notice any difference, except it does seem a lot faster this morning!!
    Thank you very muchly for your efforts Scott.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottH View Post
    It's done.

    You should not notice any difference, except it does seem a lot faster this morning!!
    Great, I'm going to eat up double my bandwidth now.


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