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In case you haven't noticed, there have been significant slowdown issues for everything hosted at younglifenorthdekalb.com for the past couple of months or so, including your stats site. I've filed multiple support tickets, made over a dozen phone calls, and it hasn't gotten better for any extended time. The bottom line is that we're on a shared server, and there's too much stuff (not the other FOF leagues....there are *hundreds* of other web sites on the server). It's time to make a move. Here's where I am on this:
1. From talking to some true experts on the subject--especially Simms--I've come to the conclusion that I need to do what he has done for his personal site + FOBL + FOFL + IHOF--move to private hosting, rather than shared hosting.
2. I've tested a move to a VPS server, and I like the results I've gotten.
3. The move would be an increase of ~$25 per month in hosting fees.
4. Between the leagues fully hosted on my server (CCFL and USFL), and the leagues that use it for a database (FFL, IFL, OSFL, HFL, PFL, CyFL,) I'd like to feel like I can count on the owners to cover that increase with a once-per-year donation campaign. In short, I want to raise $300 every late June/early July at a minimum to keep this thing going.
5. Given that 95-99% of my bandwidth usage is for FOF MP, and a fair bit of it for leagues I'm not in, it'd be nice if the community could more or less cover my hosting costs if possible. That said, the $35 per month I'm currently paying has been in my budget for a while now, so no huge deal if not.
So, I'm moving, and I'm doing the first once-per-year campaign to cover the cost. Ideally, I'd hope to see it break down like this:
TO COVER ALL HOSTING COSTS
ideal amount
CCFL: $180
USFL: $180
OSFL: $60
FFL: $60
IFL: $60
HFL: $60
PFL: $60
CyFL: $60
TO COVER THE INCREASE
(want this much at a minimum)
CCFL: $75
USFL: $75
OSFL: $25
FFL: $25
IFL: $25
HFL: $25
PFL: $25
CyFL: $25
BENEFITS
1. Much faster load times.
2. Better customer service when things do go bad.
3. Leagues I'm not in should have direct access to their league's PhpMyAdmin, which means that they can update their owner info and player ratings without going through me.
RISK
Very little. I've been researching this for a few weeks, and had narrowed it down to two plans. I posted an FOFC thread last night, and nothing that has been posted there has changed my thinking. If I go with Simms's company, we have the demonstrated usage at FOBL/FOFL/IHOF and my own tests on that VPS. If I go with the other plan, I have a 30-day guarantee to run similar tests and then move to the Simms plan if there's something about this other plan that we're both missing. Simms himself has said that the other plan has what we need, and looks better than what he has, so that's the #1 option right now.
TO DONATE AND HAVE IT EARMARKED FOR IFL----> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...=ATMJK5RQ6NBC6
Thanks in advance for your help/attention to this, and sorry for the recent inconvenience of the slowdown.
--Ben
1. From talking to some true experts on the subject--especially Simms--I've come to the conclusion that I need to do what he has done for his personal site + FOBL + FOFL + IHOF--move to private hosting, rather than shared hosting.
2. I've tested a move to a VPS server, and I like the results I've gotten.
3. The move would be an increase of ~$25 per month in hosting fees.
4. Between the leagues fully hosted on my server (CCFL and USFL), and the leagues that use it for a database (FFL, IFL, OSFL, HFL, PFL, CyFL,) I'd like to feel like I can count on the owners to cover that increase with a once-per-year donation campaign. In short, I want to raise $300 every late June/early July at a minimum to keep this thing going.
5. Given that 95-99% of my bandwidth usage is for FOF MP, and a fair bit of it for leagues I'm not in, it'd be nice if the community could more or less cover my hosting costs if possible. That said, the $35 per month I'm currently paying has been in my budget for a while now, so no huge deal if not.
So, I'm moving, and I'm doing the first once-per-year campaign to cover the cost. Ideally, I'd hope to see it break down like this:
TO COVER ALL HOSTING COSTS
ideal amount
CCFL: $180
USFL: $180
OSFL: $60
FFL: $60
IFL: $60
HFL: $60
PFL: $60
CyFL: $60
TO COVER THE INCREASE
(want this much at a minimum)
CCFL: $75
USFL: $75
OSFL: $25
FFL: $25
IFL: $25
HFL: $25
PFL: $25
CyFL: $25
BENEFITS
1. Much faster load times.
2. Better customer service when things do go bad.
3. Leagues I'm not in should have direct access to their league's PhpMyAdmin, which means that they can update their owner info and player ratings without going through me.
RISK
Very little. I've been researching this for a few weeks, and had narrowed it down to two plans. I posted an FOFC thread last night, and nothing that has been posted there has changed my thinking. If I go with Simms's company, we have the demonstrated usage at FOBL/FOFL/IHOF and my own tests on that VPS. If I go with the other plan, I have a 30-day guarantee to run similar tests and then move to the Simms plan if there's something about this other plan that we're both missing. Simms himself has said that the other plan has what we need, and looks better than what he has, so that's the #1 option right now.
TO DONATE AND HAVE IT EARMARKED FOR IFL----> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...=ATMJK5RQ6NBC6
Thanks in advance for your help/attention to this, and sorry for the recent inconvenience of the slowdown.
--Ben
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