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Alpine Spirit

Alpine Spirit

First Fill-Up (of many)
Founding Member
Location
South Park, CO
Larger forums don't run we'll if at all on 4.95 hosting. You are extremely limited by the number of processes you are allowed on a shared server. So you have to step up to semi dedicated hosting or dedicated. Price goes up substantially.

Paying for any needed tech support, software upgrades in the future. Etc. etc etc.

Not free.... Thankless job.... Only for the dedicated.
 
Macland

Macland

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
SW OK & formerly Eastern NM
We already discussed and decided against any chat rooms because of difficulty moderating them, for the time being. We have the great post whore society that does a great job anyways.
 
dhyde79

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
Alpine Spirit said:
Larger forums don't run we'll if at all on 4.95 hosting. You are extremely limited by the number of processes you are allowed on a shared server. So you have to step up to semi dedicated hosting or dedicated. Price goes up substantially.

Paying for any needed tech support, software upgrades in the future. Etc. etc etc.

Not free.... Thankless job.... Only for the dedicated.
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alpine...I promise, the basic hosting account for 4.95/mo at lunarpages.com is much more than enough to support this site on it. I've had multiple 50-100 user forums running on one account on there, plus hosting my personal photography site, my portfolio, and running as an offsite backup for all of my important files. I've not had any issues with them in the decade I've used them, and, again, as I said above, I pay $5/month, and they renew my primary domain every year for free.

oh, and their tech support is free...
 
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drbandkgb

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Yeah we did talk about doing a chat room..
Issues most had with it was a lack of storing the posts.. It seems like TNX had this and no one ever used it too...

90% of all monies collect on XN head right back to sponsor other Xterra events and clubs.

goneMOAB
East Coast Xterra Challenge
The National Xterra Meet
Site give aways and contest

XN is not a rich forum by any means but we are damn sure going to help where we can!
 
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drbandkgb

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
And this site was paid for in the 1st 6 months... ;)

I do plan on upgrading it to VB5 in 6 months or so.. I have also paid for a front page and more goodies, If I could just grow the balls to install them hehee
 
dhyde79

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
Kudos drb...

as far as logging goes, that's not an issue, I can help set up an eggdrop bot that'll log the entire chat, and as far as number of users, there wasn't a shortage of people that popped into the site, it was a shortage of people that understood that IRC chats aren't instant gratification things, the person you're trying to talk to might have stepped away from the computer for a minute and thus aren't answering immediately. We had probably 15 or so people that'd log in every day, ask a question or say hi or see if anyone was around, wait 5 minutes at most, then leave because they hadn't gotten an answer. during the busy times like we have here, we could actually get some activity on an IRC chat...

I understand if you don't want to add one though, it could be a bit more difficult to manage.
 
dhyde79

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
I think that was the point, a way to save what we have for later but not make it so we're out of space... (Or, if we're nowhere near the server's allowances, up the limitations on how many messages we're allowed)
 
TKDx00

TKDx00

Lockers Installed
Founding Member
Location
S.Subs of Chicago, IL.
^^^ What he said... I've got some good info saved in pm's but would like to free up space in the inbox & sent boxes. I suppose I could create a word doc, copy/paste and save to an external hard drive then delete from XN.
 
Macland

Macland

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
SW OK & formerly Eastern NM
dhyde79 said:
I think that was the point, a way to save what we have for later but not make it so we're out of space... (Or, if we're nowhere near the server's allowances, up the limitations on how many messages we're allowed)
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That would be something Dave would have to weigh in on. It's doable, maybe people with paid memberships could get a bump in space allotted.
 
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drbandkgb

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
I'll take a look at it.. I think your a lifetime guy.. So I may have forgot to bump those up.. I'll get it today
 
TheFauxFox

TheFauxFox

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Huntsville, AL
This issue still plagues me, at the very least:
Using the search bar function to search for titles of threads doesn't work. Example below:
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This just an example of a search for TGPWS thread. I can type in any combination of the words from the thread title and will not get the thread. This is would be a good fix if the search bar could search for thread titles.

FTR: Mozilla Firefox [Latest]
 
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drbandkgb

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Some of that has to do with adding keywords at the bottom of threads...
And some of it is due to vb's search bar
 
TN4x4Xterra

TN4x4Xterra

Suspension Lift
Location
Knoxville, TN
TheFauxFox said:
This issue still plagues me, at the very least:
Using the search bar function to search for titles of threads doesn't work. Example below:
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This just an example of a search for TGPWS thread. I can type in any combination of the words from the thread title and will not get the thread. This is would be a good fix if the search bar could search for thread titles.

FTR: Mozilla Firefox [Latest]
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Aww I feel loved seeing my sn plastered all over the search engine! ;)
 
TKDx00

TKDx00

Lockers Installed
Founding Member
Location
S.Subs of Chicago, IL.
Suggestion:

Being that I'm sometimes lazy this may just be one of those times. Is it possible to create sortof like an "at-a-glance" listing of who sells what?
Gen1 bumpers - ???
Gen1 sliders - ???
Gen2 roof racks - ???
Gen2 light bars - besides B&N if needed
etc...

I just think it would be easier to have 1 place to go instead of having to go site to site searching. Or is this somethig that a member should do? Remember I'm lazy.
 
dhyde79

dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
TKDx00 said:
Suggestion:

Being that I'm sometimes lazy this may just be one of those times. Is it possible to create sortof like an "at-a-glance" listing of who sells what?
Gen1 bumpers - ???
Gen1 sliders - ???
Gen2 roof racks - ???
Gen2 light bars - besides B&N if needed
etc...

I just think it would be easier to have 1 place to go instead of having to go site to site searching. Or is this somethig that a member should do? Remember I'm lazy.
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Agreed, that'd be cool...
 
Macland

Macland

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
SW OK & formerly Eastern NM
This wouldn't be my call so I'm only giving an opinion but I think that would give free advertising to non paying companies rendering sponsorship moot. Just make a favorites folder with all of the sites.
 
Creepy Cruiser

Creepy Cruiser

Sliders
Site Sponsor
Founding Member
Location
6 Feet Under
Macland said:
This wouldn't be my call so I'm only giving an opinion but I think that would give free advertising to non paying companies rendering sponsorship moot. Just make a favorites folder with all of the sites.
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I personally agree with Mac. Sponsors are a very important part of keeping a great site running.
 
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TKDx00

TKDx00

Lockers Installed
Founding Member
Location
S.Subs of Chicago, IL.
Macland said:
This wouldn't be my call so I'm only giving an opinion but I think that would give free advertising to non paying companies rendering sponsorship moot. Just make a favorites folder with all of the sites.
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I'm not quit sure I understand. What I was looking for was a list of what our sponsors have. If you mean other companies other than our sponsors... OH HE!! NAW. My problem is not remembering who sells Gen1 stuff, who sells Gen2 and who might have both. BUMP ANYONE ELSE!!!
 
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