Welcome back! - again
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:08 pm
How'd you all enjoy our bi-annual forum downtime? 
As some of you may have noticed, we'd gone dark for a couple of days. It turned out we had exceed our monthly traffic limit three days before the end of the month, resulting in a suspension until the beginning of the next billing cycle. Which is today, obviously. We could've bought extra data, but that's very expensive, so we decided to just sit it out.
With our current donation funds, we also cannot afford to upgrade to a bigger web hosting plan any time soon. We'd run out of money in less than two years if we did that. So, we'll have to find a solution for the growing traffic usage.
Now, normally, we only use up around 75% of our monthly allowance, but there was a peak this month. We've concluded that this must have been due to the rise in people uploading their photos as attachments, rather than hosting them off site on sites like Imagebam. For that reason, in order to avoid having to upgrade to a bigger plan too soon, we will no longer allow attachments to posts.
In fact, I've turned off the ability to upload attachments for most users.
The only attachments that are still allowed are ones that come with a donation. PM me if you're interested in that option.
And now, back to gloving!
As some of you may have noticed, we'd gone dark for a couple of days. It turned out we had exceed our monthly traffic limit three days before the end of the month, resulting in a suspension until the beginning of the next billing cycle. Which is today, obviously. We could've bought extra data, but that's very expensive, so we decided to just sit it out.
With our current donation funds, we also cannot afford to upgrade to a bigger web hosting plan any time soon. We'd run out of money in less than two years if we did that. So, we'll have to find a solution for the growing traffic usage.
Now, normally, we only use up around 75% of our monthly allowance, but there was a peak this month. We've concluded that this must have been due to the rise in people uploading their photos as attachments, rather than hosting them off site on sites like Imagebam. For that reason, in order to avoid having to upgrade to a bigger plan too soon, we will no longer allow attachments to posts.
In fact, I've turned off the ability to upload attachments for most users.
The only attachments that are still allowed are ones that come with a donation. PM me if you're interested in that option.
And now, back to gloving!
