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  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665

    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.
  • Untamed Snark
    Senior Player
    • Feb 2011
    • 1375

    #2
    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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    • ScottH
      It's Goodes to cheer!!
      • Sep 2003
      • 23665

      #3
      Originally posted by Untamed Snark
      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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      • Matimbo
        Warming the Bench
        • Apr 2009
        • 334

        #4
        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.
        CIA Agent to Policeman: "Have you ever had anti-terrorist training?"
        Policeman: "Yes, I was married once."

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        • ScottH
          It's Goodes to cheer!!
          • Sep 2003
          • 23665

          #5
          Originally posted by Matimbo
          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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          • ScottH
            It's Goodes to cheer!!
            • Sep 2003
            • 23665

            #6
            It's done.

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

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            • BobLog
              Pushing for Selection
              • Apr 2014
              • 63

              #7
              Love your work.
              Using Tapatalk

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              • dimelb
                pr. dim-melb; m not f
                • Jun 2003
                • 6889

                #8
                Originally posted by ScottH
                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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                • ScottH
                  It's Goodes to cheer!!
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 23665

                  #9
                  Originally posted by dimelb
                  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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                  • tasmania60
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Jul 2013
                    • 276

                    #10
                    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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                    • Swansongster
                      Senior Player
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 1264

                      #11
                      Originally posted by ScottH
                      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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                      • ugg
                        Can you feel it?
                        Site Admin
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 15976

                        #12
                        Originally posted by ScottH
                        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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                        • ScottH
                          It's Goodes to cheer!!
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 23665

                          #13
                          Originally posted by ugg
                          Great, I'm going to eat up double my bandwidth now.

                          Just don't eat up RWO's!!!!!!



                          Thanks all for the comments

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                          • CJK
                            Human
                            • Apr 2006
                            • 2170

                            #14
                            Great work Scott - as always.

                            Just a little feedback FYI - tried to post a .gif in another thread and it only displayed as a .jpeg. Also can't delete the image when editing my post.

                            I'll post another .gif in a post below this one - see if it's across the board. Sure we'll live if .gifs are no more but just FYI

                            - - - Updated - - -

                            Test gif

                            Hannibal Wink.jpg

                            Mads sure anit winking at no one. Fail.
                            -

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                            • ScottH
                              It's Goodes to cheer!!
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 23665

                              #15
                              Originally posted by CJK
                              Great work Scott - as always.

                              Just a little feedback FYI - tried to post a .gif in another thread and it only displayed as a .jpeg. Also can't delete the image when editing my post.

                              I'll post another .gif in a post below this one - see if it's across the board. Sure we'll live if .gifs are no more but just FYI

                              - - - Updated - - -

                              Test gif

                              [ATTACH=CONFIG]1008[/ATTACH]

                              Mads sure anit winking at no one. Fail.
                              OK, thanks.
                              Might be something I can work out.

                              EDIT: Actually were they working in posts before today?
                              I just check ROK Lobsters avatar, and it is still a working GIF

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