914world is showing its age Options

[SirAndy]

914world is showing its age (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The recent outage was not due to some cyber attack or malicious plotting from the darkest depths of the interwebs.

It was simply due to the forum software being overwhelmed by the amount of data stored here combined with the amount of traffic we're receiving.

Fact is, the software we're running on is more than 20 years old, written at a time when the internet was a much different place.
It was never meant to run for this long or handle the amount of data we have accumulated.


So what are our options?

- Keep going until everything crashes and burns into a pile.

- Start over fresh with a new server with new forum software. We'd be losing everything we have.

- Try to fix some of the issues by re-writing parts of the software, reworking the database and changing the way uploaded images are stored. Maybe even update the server itself while we're in there.


While the last choice seems the obvious one, the problem is that i do have a day-job that needs my attention and my time is limited.
It would also mean i'd probably have to shut down the site for a longer period of time, maybe a week or two, and maybe more than once.
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[Montreal914]

Will gladly contribute to this too.

I have recently gone on FB and it's probably me but I wouldn't know where to start to find information (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) . This feed thing (like LinkedIn) doesn't apply to the type of activities we have here.

I fully trust the brain power here to address the issue, just like it does for our beloved little car! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Thank you Andy for everything you do and for the daily dose of therapy... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

...plus, we need to know what happens to the Ferrari build! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

EDIT: I believe Go Fund Me takes a chunk of the donation (obviously). Seems like the direct money transfer would garanty all the last coins to be used towards this place.