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Even if you have your own server sitting in your living room, stuff like this is going to happen -- the only difference is YOU can get to it faster. But having a server offsite means you pay someone else to touch it and interface with it in situations like that and you're at their mercy.

And seriously -- if you can't survive 24 hours (even 48 hours) without a hobbyist's website and feel the need to malign the volunteers and the website, then you've got some serious problems.

I'd sooner see donations go into a great chat program than a server box in my/Spinner/MikeT's living room. Other than the odd hiccup, the site runs fine and we've tonnes of bandwidth and storage.

My two cents.

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Dean do we need a vote? I personally would be willing to donate to the cause to help get a secure chat program.

Well, first lets find what we want and then we can see what we have to do to get it. I know there are people just dying to advertise on the site and that could pull in the cash over a year to buy a nice chat system...

Let us know your wishes Terrific Forum Master!

:blush: Don't go saying stuff like that. I just want to be a normal member like everyone else.

We CAN open up the club paypal account to accept donations but until we know what we want, should we be hording cash? I don't know...

If you are hot to trot to help out maybe you could take on a job of finding out what our members want. A nice 20 questions type thing and see where people want the club to go... I'm just thinking out loud.

All I know right now is I'm so fried I don't want to think for a bit... :lookaround: But we have MANY wonderful mods/admins helping out here to ensure that this is the best club ever! :clapping:

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what do I care, I barely post on this site anyway :)

But seriously though... fundraising can be done if it is necessary. We shouldn't blow this out of proportion though... attacks happen regardless of what you do. A dedicated server is often EASIER to bring to its knees because the people running them don't necessarily know what they are doing. With a virtual/shared/managed server you get (hopefully) professionals on the other end doing what they do to minimize problems and provide premium connectivity.

As for the chat - if I recall, it was a test thing anyway to see if it was actually wanted... did we figure that out? If not, then perhaps a vote is in order! If only very few people used it, is it worth the expense to bring it back?

- Steven

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Thanks, Spinner. I don't know who pissed in who's cornflakes, but people speaking out of their asses is just so infantile. *sigh*

Now we've taken on a political tone! :snooty:

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Just think of that Cindy Laupar song. "Smarties just wanna have fun!" ;)

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I missed this site for the short time it was off and what mostly surprised me was that even tho I could not get on the chat here which is where I have been hanging out I never did try the chat on the other site, Funny because I just realized that and I love chat, it is where I get to know evwryone and find the most instant info. To me it is like going out to the local club right here in my onw home,,,, I sure hope we will be getting a new one soon. Let me know where to send a cheque.

Glad we are back :beerchug:

Thanks for all that you do TFM :ballons:

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so far thats 4 or 5 people willing to donate! and i could maybe squeese in a few bucks too... since I'mm the one who recruited people to chat a lot of the time.

I started a poll to see who wants a chat and who doesn't... so in a few days we'll see how it goes and waht to do next :)

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Yeah - a server in some dedicated building that has it's own power and a good internet connection or somebodies basement... I can see which would be the better idea.

That sigma chat looks better than the last one.

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I need CHAT, I went to chat aholics anonomonomouse today and they say I am in really bad shape........They told me to get a fix soon or I was not going to make it....

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