Thie is in case you didn't see the notice at the top of the page;
"SOH Upgrades
Over the past 10 years I have always kept us running, now the time has come to go to the next teer
Downloads have went from 1 MB to now up to 1 GB and our server is having problems keeping up.
You all have noticed the slowdowns. I have my hands full keeping the site running.
I bought us a new web server which will take us into the future.
I plan on moving all the uploads/downloads to the new server to free up resources, this will also be a windows server so now we can finally have a game server with FSHost'ing and maybe TeamSpeak. Most big websites have 2 servers running so we will join them. I made a deal on a new web server.
Intel quad core 2.5 GHz
1 terabyte Hard drive
4 gigs of ram
2000 GB bandwidth
100 MB network (hole to the internet)
8 IP's 5 usable
this comes with a special card so we can add software too.
Windows 2008
This will cost us another $3000 per year We will run the bandwidth drive until March 01, 2010
I see no options to give, as we in the staff forum talked about this all day.
We could, which I have done already to keep the server loads down is to cut downloads from 100 at a time to just 15 and the number of downloads to 3 per IP
Cut the sized of downloads to 50 MB.
I do not like this ideal.
We could invite advertising, but this is against all we have fought for, and I for 1 hate pop-ups and flashing banners most want to be at the top of the page, than the problem getting paid.
This weekend Canelo and myself are going to install a new version of vBulletin 4.1 which just came out and this will fix all the errors.
Next I will be setting up the new server, moving all the download file
note the site may be unavailable since this is labor intensive. John C will be assisting.
Next Mopar Mike will be installing the software and working out the bugs for the game server.
I only hope you all approve and dig a little deeper and get the other members to join in and become a charter member, we need your support to carry on into the next decade.
Thank you
Ickie"
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"SOH Upgrades
Over the past 10 years I have always kept us running, now the time has come to go to the next teer
Downloads have went from 1 MB to now up to 1 GB and our server is having problems keeping up.
You all have noticed the slowdowns. I have my hands full keeping the site running.
I bought us a new web server which will take us into the future.
I plan on moving all the uploads/downloads to the new server to free up resources, this will also be a windows server so now we can finally have a game server with FSHost'ing and maybe TeamSpeak. Most big websites have 2 servers running so we will join them. I made a deal on a new web server.
Intel quad core 2.5 GHz
1 terabyte Hard drive
4 gigs of ram
2000 GB bandwidth
100 MB network (hole to the internet)
8 IP's 5 usable
this comes with a special card so we can add software too.
Windows 2008
This will cost us another $3000 per year We will run the bandwidth drive until March 01, 2010
I see no options to give, as we in the staff forum talked about this all day.
We could, which I have done already to keep the server loads down is to cut downloads from 100 at a time to just 15 and the number of downloads to 3 per IP
Cut the sized of downloads to 50 MB.
I do not like this ideal.
We could invite advertising, but this is against all we have fought for, and I for 1 hate pop-ups and flashing banners most want to be at the top of the page, than the problem getting paid.
This weekend Canelo and myself are going to install a new version of vBulletin 4.1 which just came out and this will fix all the errors.
Next I will be setting up the new server, moving all the download file
note the site may be unavailable since this is labor intensive. John C will be assisting.
Next Mopar Mike will be installing the software and working out the bugs for the game server.
I only hope you all approve and dig a little deeper and get the other members to join in and become a charter member, we need your support to carry on into the next decade.
Thank you
Ickie"
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