Blank Page Issue Is Intolerable - Let's Talk

[Tom Horton]

Speaking as a West Coaster and a Californian, SHAME ON YOU JIM BECKER!!! Starbucks would never sell the lowly doughnut. You have to order a Persimmon/kumquat Scone or a banana/walnut/eucalyptus low-fat muffin or at LEAST a lite macadamia/pecan brownie with orange zest and Norwegian cinnamon.

I'll have just coffee, please. And a doughnut. None of that fancy schmancy foo foo poo poo . And, I'll be sending in a contribution, too. Can't think of a better way to spend my money!

Tom

[Jack Damian]

Contribution sent

chip

Agreed.

[Jim Fancher]

Lease a server in a proper data center. Check out 1and1.com for package deals. Go with a managed server and you wouldn't need Aaron at all.

Go with their "Managed Server 1" for $109 a month. It's enough horsepower to run 50 vbulletin websites and you get 1000GB of transfer a month.

[Aaron Koehl]

Lease a server in a proper data center. Check out 1and1.com for package deals. Go with a managed server and you wouldn't need Aaron at all.

Go with their "Managed Server 1" for $109 a month. It's enough horsepower to run 50 vbulletin websites and you get 1000GB of transfer a month.

Yeah, that's exactly what we'll do. Create even MORE barriers to have to cut through in order to adminster our site. I've had a fill of "managed" deals, heck, Cox even "managed" to screw up our DNS 4 times--and their 24x7 call center was useless.

You cannot run a large forum on shared hosting.. You won't find a server that will run 50 vBulletin websites--unless they have no traffic, and I wouldn't dream of putting this database on a 40GB IDE drive.

I've seen too many horror stories about 1and1, too. Don't forget we (SawmillCreek, owned by Hampton Roads Online) were an ISP in business for 10 years.

$109 will NOT buy the setup we have now, even with any bandwidth issues we might have from time to time.

[Mark Rios]

Hey Aaron, we're paying you the big bucks now to run this show for us. You take care of it the way YOU see fit. You are our IT hero.

Come to think of it, maybe we all should have payed for Jackie to include an extra couple of shirts for you in the order. She could have had them put something on it like, "Official SMC Super IT Guy"................well.....maybe not quite like that but something special on it................heck..nevermind...............

Aaron, you just keep taking care of us the way you are and the way you want to and I thank you very much for doing it.

And we'll just let you buy your own shirts.

[John Miliunas]

Hey Aaron, we're paying you the big bucks now to run this show for us. You take care of it the way YOU see fit. You are our IT hero.

Come to think of it, maybe we all should have payed for Jackie to include an extra couple of shirts for you in the order. She could have had them put something on it like, "Official SMC Super IT Guy"................well.....maybe not quite like that but something special on it................heck..nevermind...............

Aaron, you just keep taking care of us the way you are and the way you want to and I thank you very much for doing it.

And we'll just let you buy your own shirts.

Yeah!!! What Mark said!!!

[John Bailey]

Gee, you go to Greece for 6 weeks and you miss everything. I saw the post about the intolerable blank pages the last couple of weeks, but didn't think it was a money problem. Asleep at the wheel again. Well, I'll get off a PayPal today.

The problem was the title of the post. I think most were like me, didn't know what it was about, and I tend to keep away from the technical stuff. We should have a post with a subtle message. Something like "WE NEED MONEY!!"

John

[John Bailey]

NO - to advertising

YES - to finding a way to pay the sys. adm.

John

[Charlie Schultz]

Pardon me if these have already been discussed...
1. Voluntary dues (ala PBS, mimf.com)?
2. As much as I like FreeStuff, perhaps auction it off instead?

[skip coyne]

Pardon me if these have already been discussed...
1. Voluntary dues (ala PBS, mimf.com)?
2. As much as I like FreeStuff, perhaps auction it off instead?

along the same lines eithr a charge for classifieds or a suggested volantary contribution scale

(for exampe if you sell a 100 item a 5 donation is suggested etc ... )

[Brian Hale]

Seems like it's doing it again.....

The dreaded BPS (blank page syndrome)

Brian

[Aaron Beaver]

Seems like it's doing it again.....

The dreaded BPS (blank page syndrome)

Brian

Getting it again this morning as well.