- Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:34 pm
#17220
In a couple of months the hosting account storing Driver Madness will most likely be closed due to the financial crisis. Over the past couple of months I've been watching the US dollar plummet causing hosting costs increasing by almost 40%.
With no ability to fund the website I'm having to relocate Driver Madness, hoping to reduce fees by almost 70%. This movement will cause the website a couple of days downtime and a lot of non-forum related content removed due to new storage and bandwidth restrictions.
Because of this I have to remove inactive websites including
dpl-list, drivermods, gunsinthetrunk and more.
Over time I'll restore, "gunsinthetrunk".
But dpl-list is old, unefficient and soon to be replaced with the DriverWiki.
The drivermods website will be removed after discussion with it's owner.
A major change which will affect Driver Madness is the complete removal of the 20 to 30 gig Download Base at http://www.downloads.drivermadness.net . This has to be removed in order to reduce hosting costs, if it feels necessary I'll make my own backup of everything uploaded ready to restore in the future if I ever decided to spend more on hosting again.
http://www.images.drivermadness.net may also be removed, all images should be available on DriverWiki by that time otherwise I'll restore the images section.
I'm still thinking about the entire issue, in order to save costs I'm thinking of removing the DriverWiki domain and using wiki.drivermadness.net at least until the project becomes fully successful.
With large changes in place I'm thinking about changing the websites name from drivermadness.net to something else, during the next couple of weeks I'm going to discuss this matter with drivermadness members via. MSN (if you want to add me to MSN please PM for my new active address).
After checking Ad-Revenue generated from the site we have earned less than a dollar in the past two months, so this isn't helping and I don't intend to increase the amount of ads displayed on this site.
I plan on contacting my current host to see if there is anything they can do to further limit my data storage and bandwidth usage to reduce hosting fees, in this case I can clean everything up and only remove least downloaded items. Currently our bandwidth usage is 4gig a month compared to 25gig a month when the downloads script was up.
I'll keep you all updated on this situation.
If you want something from the download base start to plan and download it. There are lots driv3r videos from ababbs, demos, trailers, mods and more. You can check out http://www.downloads.drivermadness.net
There is still a while until my account expires.
I'm just planning in advance, to make sure downtime is small.
With no ability to fund the website I'm having to relocate Driver Madness, hoping to reduce fees by almost 70%. This movement will cause the website a couple of days downtime and a lot of non-forum related content removed due to new storage and bandwidth restrictions.
Because of this I have to remove inactive websites including
dpl-list, drivermods, gunsinthetrunk and more.
Over time I'll restore, "gunsinthetrunk".
But dpl-list is old, unefficient and soon to be replaced with the DriverWiki.
The drivermods website will be removed after discussion with it's owner.
A major change which will affect Driver Madness is the complete removal of the 20 to 30 gig Download Base at http://www.downloads.drivermadness.net . This has to be removed in order to reduce hosting costs, if it feels necessary I'll make my own backup of everything uploaded ready to restore in the future if I ever decided to spend more on hosting again.
http://www.images.drivermadness.net may also be removed, all images should be available on DriverWiki by that time otherwise I'll restore the images section.
I'm still thinking about the entire issue, in order to save costs I'm thinking of removing the DriverWiki domain and using wiki.drivermadness.net at least until the project becomes fully successful.
With large changes in place I'm thinking about changing the websites name from drivermadness.net to something else, during the next couple of weeks I'm going to discuss this matter with drivermadness members via. MSN (if you want to add me to MSN please PM for my new active address).
After checking Ad-Revenue generated from the site we have earned less than a dollar in the past two months, so this isn't helping and I don't intend to increase the amount of ads displayed on this site.
I plan on contacting my current host to see if there is anything they can do to further limit my data storage and bandwidth usage to reduce hosting fees, in this case I can clean everything up and only remove least downloaded items. Currently our bandwidth usage is 4gig a month compared to 25gig a month when the downloads script was up.
I'll keep you all updated on this situation.
If you want something from the download base start to plan and download it. There are lots driv3r videos from ababbs, demos, trailers, mods and more. You can check out http://www.downloads.drivermadness.net
There is still a while until my account expires.
I'm just planning in advance, to make sure downtime is small.