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biobee · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:08 am Post subject: Apology for the downtime...

...over the weekend.

This was caused by exceeding our allotted bandwidth of 75Gb, which shows how popular natural beekeeping has become.

I was away from home teaching all weekend and could not contact my server tech support. I am currently looking at other hosting options, but I will need to lay out more money to improve on what we have.

If you have found this place helpful, PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION to Friends of the Bees to help defray our costs. If we cannot raise money this way, I will have no option but to deploy more advertising, and I really don't want to go further in that direction.

Trip · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:40 am Post subject:

Phil,

Thanks for the reminder, it's been too long since I last made a donation and have rectified the situation. I find the site and the community invaluable and appreciate your efforts holding the electronic bits together so we can support each other.

Trip

stevecook172001 · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:25 pm Post subject:

No problem Phil. I bought the book, but must admit to feeling little guilty about not making a donation to this great site, given the amount of info I have got from it.

Will rectify that. Gotta admit, when the site when down I was beginning to panic a bit! I'd be knackered without it.

biobee · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks, guys.

Just for clarity, book sales help to keep me afloat, but donations to Friends of the Bees go towards running our projects and not to me.

Currently, we need funds to establish our Black Bee Project on a permaculture farm in South Devon - more about this later.

Jt · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject:

I came in from checking the bees on Sunday and wanted some advice. Obviously shocked to see the site down. Perhaps you could give us an idea of running costs for such a forum? I think an open approach to how donated monies are used will give confidence to contributors. I have taken the insurance from FOTBs but have no idea how much covers the liability insurance or goes towards other projects and running costs?

Keep up the good work!

Amber · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:57 pm Post subject: Apology for the Downtime

A good reminder, it's easy to take the forum for granted.
But it's greatly appreciated by a huge number of enthusiastic and caring beekeepers.

CeeBee · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: Apology for the downtime...

Cie · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:20 am Post subject:

I'll wave the flag for Bitfolk who have provided hosting and support that are second to none.
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biobee · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:17 am Post subject:

Bitfolk say "We're currently out of capacity and cannot accept new customers at this time. We're expecting to be able to take on more customers towards the end of April, but capacity will likely become available sooner due to cancellations."

I currently favour Fasthosts, as their rates are competitive and they don't seem to limit bandwidth on their business accounts. Anyone have an opinion on them?

zaunreiter · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:41 am Post subject:

My two cents: Most traffic is generated by spam and spambots. You can cut down spammers by using a very small company that is hosting. A small provider also has very short communication routes, so if there is a problem, you simply ring them up and the problem is done.

I tried a lot of the bigger companies here in Germany, they all lack service and they certainly do attract spammers and hackers. Those spammers are not interested in smaller hosts.

So I just can recommend a small provider, best is near you. There are many and it is worth to search for them and pay them some money. Localize!

WileyHunter · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject:

I actually used to use, and resell Fasthost about 5 years ago here in the US. There were very minimal downtime issues ever complained about to me by my customer base, and they provided excellent services to both myself and my end users. Unless they've completely fallen into the toilet since then, I'd highly recommend them. In fact, now that you've prompted that memory, maybe I need to re-look at the resell options again.

ourMikeGeorge · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Apology for the downtime...

H1veHead · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 5:39 pm Post subject:

Hi Phil

Just to put my two-penny-worth in, I've been using UK2.NET for my hosting for about five years and never had anything but good service and no downtime. Not sure exactly without looking what their costs are but maybe worth you having a look?

Cheers!
H1veHead

ourMikeGeorge · Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 5:10 am Post subject:

Another thought - if you're moving to another host you could use it as an opportunity to upgrade to the v3 forum software and enforce the 'location' rule Wink

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