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Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Sep 28, 2002.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] Just in case any of you haven't seen this on the front page, here it is again:

    As you've probably noticed, Sorcerer's Place was down for the last 6 hours or so. I've finally decided to terminate my current hosting plan since SP was obviously more than they could handle and *drumroll* bought a dedicated server for Sorcerer's Place. What does this mean?

    Well, for one thing, this means that I have direct admin access to the server, including all support. So if the server goes down, I can reboot it myself or request a reboot, without having to wait for half a day for my host to show up. It also means that the site should not be going down at all, since it will be the only website running on the server, not sharing it with any others to slow it down. This new server is also a much faster machine (Pentium 4, 1.7Ghz, 40GB HD, 512MB RAM), so your surfing around Sorcerer's Place should be smoother.

    I am beginning the transition right away, but since moving to a totally new server requires a lot of adjustments some things on SP may not work right over the next few days until I can get to them all... You *should* be able to reach either the old or the new server during this time, so non-active content (everything but the news and message boards) should be accessible to anyone. Once the transition completes, only the new server will remain and everyone will be reaching that one.

    So, yes, there's a lot of good news. Now for the not-so-good news. Buying a dedicated server has drained all my money reserves, so I'm basically at 0 right now. And as you probably know, buying a server isn't a one-time purchase, but requires monthly payments from me. So please, if you can spare ANY amount of money, donate ( http://www.sorcerers.net/Main/helping_sp.php )so I will be able to pay off the server... Donations have been very slim over the last two months, so no, there is no gold pile for me to revert to... All the extra money was spent so that SP finally has its own server.

    A big *thank you* to all of you who have already donated to SP and helped me out, and to all of who will do so in the future. I couldn't have done it without you.
     
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    Taluntain, Sep 28, 2002
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