This place is BOOMING, and apparently booming = EXPENSIVE.
Discourse recently hit me up asking for up to $12.5k per MONTH due to our high traffic. Those numbers are not even in the same universe as the ballpark, so we will hopefully be moving to a new server shortly.
I have never done this kind of transfer before, which is why I have my trusted Professional Swedish Webman on the job.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU and the rest of the OG is that we will probably be losing some posts/threads during this transfer.
Discourse has to get me a FULL BACKUP of the site, then we have to upload that backup to the new server. I believe they have already started packaging the data, so I advise you to hold off on your next big blockbuster thread for now.
Please be patient as we wade into uncharted waters. Some stuff may be fucky at first, but I will get it all fixed ASAP.
I’m ultimately excited to be untethered from any parent service, and beholden only to maritime law.
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That’s out of my hands, unfortunately.
As I said, I think Discourse is packaging the data NOW, so all of these posts may be lost. I’m not 100% sure though.
See, I KNEW I was making too many ultra-entertaining high-value posts. Now everyone wants a piece of the action. I can try to dial it back a bit to slow down the traffic increase if it will help.
Did they happen to say what was the source of the bandwidth? Not text posts but media I imagine. Is there an alternative way to set it up? Possibly like I was saying before, only paying subscribers get the convenience of uploading and kids have to hotlink? Just spitballing.
I understand that The OG.UG was Myspace level of remedial crap but if Sherdog and TMMAC manage a level of forum ness without paying through the nose why can’t it be done here?