Forum Performance Issues

[GeoffA]

.......flying this morning......hope it stays that way.........

Well, it was good while it lasted...........

[grafy82]

Exactly !
Can someone pm me when things have improved ,
Until then , thank you all and goodbye .....   

Come on guys, you can't be serious, can you? It will do some of us some good to be off the computers for a while. Even if it means a drop in post counts.
    Let's stop complaining about such a good forum that costs us nothing.

Cheers

Wes

[bobnrob]

by UTE 701

Quote from: xcvator on 21 September 2012, 09:56:12

Continually having all of the above, and have a look at the post count dropping every day, people will leave and not come back, pity

Exactly !
Can someone pm me when things have improved ,
Until then , thank you all and goodbye ..... 

But if you're not here...how will you see your PM???     

[UTE 701]

Come on guys, you can't be serious, can you? It will do some of us some good to be off the computers for a while. Even if it means a drop in post counts.    Let's stop complaining about such a good forum that costs us nothing.

You mean I should just continue to accept hitting the button at least a dozen times hoping I don't get " Connection Problems " for each topic I wish to read ( or reply to ) .. You are the one that can't be serious !
Anyway , I don't have any friends or life outside My Swag , in fact it probably saved me last year when I lost my job as well .
And the subject of " it doesn't cost us anything " ... well I think that has been covered plenty about how people want to contribute $$'s .

But if you're not here...how will you see your PM???     

Um ... you get an email notification ....

[ozbogwam]

You mean I should just continue to accept hitting the button at least a dozen times hoping I don't get " Connection Problems " for each topic I wish to read ( or reply to ) .. You are the one that can't be serious !
Anyway , I don't have any friends or life outside My Swag , in fact it probably saved me last year when I lost my job as well .
And the subject of " it doesn't cost us anything " ... well I think that has been covered plenty about how people want to contribute $$'s .

Um ... you get an email notification ....

Yeah why not? Or if it doesn't work the first just go and do something else. It's not the end of the world if the forum crashes.

[bobnrob]

by me
But if you're not here...how will you see your PM???     

by UTE 701
Um ... you get an email notification ....

I hate it when people use logic 

[Hairs]

Hi Guys,
I think, yep I do have a moment every now and then, and sometimes it can scare the crap out of those around me 
MySwag is having some growing pains, we will all live through it 
Lets not turn on each other, sure we all have a different opinion on how things should be but, the world wont end.
Hey, do as we did this weekend, we went to somewhere new, a little further than we would usually go and I broke a few bits in the scrub, I stepped outside my comfort zone and it was great.
I will post up a trip report in a few days 
One of my favorite quotes is,
Get outside every day, Miracles are waiting everywhere.

[Camping Grant]

Perhaps one to the mods could give us an update on where things are at at the moment?

Cheers
Grant

[Snow]

We just have to have a bit of faith Brett will secure a favourable outcome for the forum. Until then patience and perseverance is the order of the day.

Heck I just had a divil of a time getting the Sept POTM voting post to post up....what an epic that was but!! it is up so get voting!!!

[xcvator]

We just have to have a bit of faith Brett will secure a favourable outcome for the forum. Until then patience and perseverance is the order of the day.

Heck I just had a divil of a time getting the Sept POTM voting post to post up....what an epic that was but!! it is up so get voting!!!

Problem is my name is Keith not Joab

[nab]

I find it quite ironic that of the 13 threads I opened up, the only one that worked was this thread...

Carry on 

[xcvator]

C'mon mods, this is now worse than my dialup of 10 years ago
There have been offers of financial help and technical help from lots of members, including me
but in return I have seen nothing so much as an acknowledgment these offers of help 
So at the risk of being banned from "myswag" I am now having an official   WHINGE about the forum performance, tonight it is pathetic at best.
Please,
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grumpy, disillusioned Keith

[booga]

I have a VPS setup and waiting to accept the forum, should make it 30 times faster  just waiting on a go signal (anyone?)

[Brett]

Here is a quick update.

www.myswag.org is moving to Australia!

Now with this news comes a substancial ongoing cost of over $2k per year. Now we have had many offers of cheaper (VPS) shared server options that have been very appreciated but with over 50GB hosted and 250GB in bandwidth no shared server is going to give us the room we need to grow compared to our very own dedicated server. But once again thank you for your offers.

In the past, we have covered costs via the sale of merchandise but we don't make anywhere near enough to cover the new server costs. So to take up on the offers for financial support we will have a paypal option up soon to help cover the new server or in the mean time you can email orders.at.myswag.org  (replace .at. with @) with the amount you wish to help out with and we will invoice you with payment details.

As for a migration date, we are looking towards the end of next week or early the week after if all goes to plan. But we will keep you posted.

[Kit_e_kat9]

Here is a quick update.

www.myswag.org is moving to Australia!

Brett ... You Now Rock! 

Looking forward to contributing financially and emotionally again ... 

Kit_e

[Symon]

$2k a year, over 10,000 members.

I'm pretty sure we can cover it people!

[Hairs]

$2k a year, over 10,000 members.

I'm pretty sure we can cover it people!

X2 Agree 

[xcvator]

wacko, beauty, great, super, you little ripper   

[Frostd]

Fantastic......great work Brett and everybody involved 

[Jillsy]

Don't forget folks - the other way to support the Forum is to purchase Myswag.org Merchandise!

Click on the link in my signature to see what we have and how to order   

[GeoffA]

Hey Brett,

You have mail..........


Geoff

[D4D]

$2k a year, over 10,000 members.

I'm pretty sure we can cover it people!

I'm suggesting a ratio of 1 cent per post in your post count, that should well and truly cover it.

[Brett]

Ok we now have PayPal account setup. Please click on the button below and it will take you to PayPal. I have set it at 1 unit = $1.00, Please adjust the unit numbers as you see fit.



Please also keep and eye on the Announcements Section -> Click Here

[GeoffA]

I'm suggesting a ratio of 1 cent per post in your post count, that should well and truly cover it.

I like your thinking there, D4D.

I've adopted a roughly similar approach.........well, sort of.....

[McGirr]

Brett

I have, like many others, donated to the on going growth of this forum. I will not post the amount but am happy to donate the amount sent. I used the PayPal account.

Many thanks for the on going work and effort you , Jill and everyone that has built this forum to the standard it is today. 

Mark