Advanced warning: some NSC disruption likely in the short-medium term

[Bozza]

I've just received the hosting bill for the last month, and it's our highest ever at $791, equating to around £500 at current exchange rates.

Such bills, for any period of time, are simply unsustainable for NSC at current revenue earning rates. As such I shall begin the search for (yet) another hosting solution for our community. As ever I'll be trying to get the balance right between site performance and hosting cost but we all know from experience that it's not always as easy as we'd like.

I will, of course, attempt to provide as much notice as I can of any downtimes that are likely. Such downtimes are typical when the site has to be moved between hosts.

All very annoying as it did look as though we'd found a permanent home that could cope with the peaks in our usage.

 

[Marc]

cor imagine if we ever get in the PREMIERSHIP Bozza, you'd need to find a host that could cover £2000 per month

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Have you looked at cloud hosting yet? Can dynamically handle the spikes in traffic. Rackspace are the most reliable (I have a contact there if you want) but not sure what the costs are for 100% up time guarantee. PM me if you like or just call them.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Might need a drastic solution such as a small yearly donation from everyone.

 

[Bozza]

Have you looked at cloud hosting yet? Can dynamically handle the spikes in traffic. Rackspace are the most reliable (I have a contact there if you want) but not sure what the costs are for 100% up time guarantee. PM me if you like or just call them.

We are currently hosted on Rackspace's cloud solution.

 

[sam86]

Assume you've been on dedicated servers?
What was the spec / cost?

 

[Bozza]

Assume you've been on dedicated servers?
What was the spec / cost?

We were on a dedicated before moving to Rackspace. Spec was low (can't remember specifics) and so was the price. NSC hit 300 users or so and things s-l-o-w-e-d a lot! The cloud approach appealed due to allowing the site to tick along even when NSC gets swamped at those occasional times - new manager, fixtures out etc etc

 

[c0lz]

does seem dear, i can have a word with some one i know who host severs, i copied home page stats but any more details if you could let us know

 

[hitony]

Might need a drastic solution such as a small yearly donation from everyone.

Thats been discussed many times, the complications with that is massive.

 

[manilaseagull]

Make it 10-20 quid per year.. it might get rid of some of the morons and schoolkids..

 

[manilaseagull]

Thats been discussed many times, the complications with that is massive.

Why?

Plenty of other boards are pay? its easy to pay now with paypal etc...

No pay no access, it don't seem so hard really, would just take time to set up.

 

[DanielT]

I have a discount code for Squarespace if you want. It scales bandwidth to your sites demands so it should not slow or crash

 

[c0lz]

ok ive spoken to someone who want to know how much traffic site uses per month roughly, but says can do it a lot cheaper

 

[Bozza]

c1000gb a month, c4,000,000 pageviews.

I've had a recommendation and quote for what seems like a very powerfully specced dedicated server - happy to listen to others (from friends of friends etc) - PM or email me with details.

 

[mwrpoole]

c1000gb a month, c4,000,000 pageviews.

I've had a recommendation and quote for what seems like a very powerfully specced dedicated server - happy to listen to others (from friends of friends etc) - PM or email me with details.

Bozza my company provides systems to councils across the UK via the web and we use a company called Titan Internet ltd to host it all for us. My IT guy researched it fairly extensively and reckons these were the cheapest he could find.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Is it all the Amex photos that are causing the problems?!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Cheap isn't always the issue - sometimes it's about up time and performance too. People would moan like crazy if NSC slowed down or dropped out.

 

[c0lz]

c1000gb a month, c4,000,000 pageviews.

I've had a recommendation and quote for what seems like a very powerfully specced dedicated server - happy to listen to others (from friends of friends etc) - PM or email me with details.

ok have sent details to them and will pm the details to you sometime tomorrow

 

[Biscuit]

Bozza, is there an easy way to donate to NSC? Rather than clicking on the links?

 

[Hiney]

Bozza, is there an easy way to donate to NSC? Rather than clicking on the links?

I guess you could look on the Player Sponsorship thread - the NSC Paypal details are on there.

I think