» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | | | | | | | | 08-04-2019, 01:04 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by MisterM52 I know that you dont want to turn this place into a cheap advertising wall, which some folks do when they take over. | I've had offers. I forgot what I was offered at the time. One figure wasn't bad for a small niche forum. But it wasn't anything to write home about either. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 08-04-2019, 01:08 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 118 | Quote: Originally Posted by 1996 328ti I've had offers. I forgot what I was offered at the time. One figure wasn't bad for a small niche forum. But it wasn't anything to write home about either. | And what did they want to do with it? Well, I would say to keep the spirit of the forum this has grown to be, it has to be left the way its found, slightly improved but for the most part, relaxed and left to the public to discuss these cars. Not turned into a cheap advertising / marketing tool for some joint corp. I guess profit is not the reason you created this either so selling for some little money and all may not be as rewarding as passing it down as a legacy to the right person(s) when the time is right. | | | 09-25-2019, 12:51 AM | #3 | Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Ocean Shores Posts: 21 | Also a thought, maybe change the amount that can be donated (unless that causes weird tax issues or something). I'd throw up the whole $180 if that made the difference for a month. | | | 08-03-2019, 07:55 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | I did a quick check. I currently use 55g of diskspace. Not sure if that includes the database) 100-150g bandwidth/monthly Managed dedicated server running 8 processors. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 08-03-2019, 08:39 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 118 | a modern semi dedicated would go for starters, with the low volume traffic we see now a days, dont think we need 8 cpu's either. depends on the age of the hardware too. | | | 08-04-2019, 12:31 AM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by MisterM52 a modern semi dedicated would go for starters, with the low volume traffic we see now a days, dont think we need 8 cpu's either. depends on the age of the hardware too. | I'm figuring a VPS would work. I can't tell how much RAM I have. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org Last edited by 1996 328ti; 08-04-2019 at 12:36 AM. | | | 08-04-2019, 12:36 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 118 | Try this for some historic data, you have cpanel there right? https://forums.cpanel.net/resources/...x-servers.379/ I would say lets start with something like a semi dedicated as here https://www.hawkhost.com/semi-dedicated-hosting or we can even try professional shared (yuk I know) to see how much we actually use realistically, we dont see a thousand members all active on the board at the same time. I am happy to chip in half if you want to cover the other half. Last edited by MisterM52; 08-04-2019 at 12:41 AM. | | | 08-04-2019, 12:49 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | I don't like hosts that claim unlimited. I'm fearful that they oversell. I do think I need to migrate to a new forum though. It's only a matter of time until this version of vBulletin gets hacked. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 08-04-2019, 12:59 AM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 118 | Well, I have used those guys before and can vouch, their service is top notch. But that said there are others too, might be worth while to start looking and settle on one, then move the site, and finally start picking the forum software to use, the longer you stay here on this host the more the costs rack up. Here is also a great one, https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server Last edited by MisterM52; 08-04-2019 at 01:04 AM. | | | 08-04-2019, 01:13 AM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | I created this site because when the ti was new people would create their own personal ti website. Sell the car and delete. Valuable information was gone. It was never about the money. Was hoping to install Xenforo here. Too much is out of date. Requirements not met The following XenForo requirements were not met. Please contact your host for help. PHP 5.6.0 or newer is required. 5.4.45 does not meet this requirement. Please ask your host to upgrade PHP. The required PHP extension Iconv could not be found. Please ask your host to install this extension. XenForo also requires MySQL 5.5 or newer. Please manually check that you meet this requirement. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 08-04-2019, 01:21 AM | #11 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posts: 118 | I know where you are coming from Steven. Thats why I said dont just go and delete it, this site maybe 15 years old but that doesn't mean anything, the Ti is becoming more and more of a niche. Look 5 years ago I would never consider a Ti or a 4 cylinder. I am glad I bought it, and although mine went kaput in a speed bump, I plan to buy a 318ti again when I am in Germany! See, now would I without this forum? Would I care about making supercharger kits for the 318ti? without this community? I know my work will have users here, people will see it, they will like it. We are using the latest PHP 7.2. Now dont try to install Xenforo yourself and do the whole conversion, I say we hire someone to do it. Cut it in half. we can have the forum members pay us some as well. Although you could likely change the ph version yourself from cpanel too, I would suggest not to, it could break things. PS: Whats your number, if you drop me a message with it I will give you a ring later and we can talk over the phone if you like. I tried calling the BMW CCA but they put me on a machine. Last edited by MisterM52; 08-04-2019 at 01:24 AM. | | | 08-04-2019, 03:07 PM | #12 | Z3 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Usa Posts: 660 | I love this site. I go to it weekly. I have been a supporter. I am willing to help. TI's FTW! __________________ Frederic 1997 318Ti M-Tech & 1999 Z3 2.8 | | | 08-04-2019, 09:40 PM | #13 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by MisterM52 I know where you are coming from Steven. Thats why I said dont just go and delete it, this site maybe 15 years old but that doesn't mean anything, the Ti is becoming more and more of a niche. Look 5 years ago I would never consider a Ti or a 4 cylinder. I am glad I bought it, and although mine went kaput in a speed bump, I plan to buy a 318ti again when I am in Germany! See, now would I without this forum? Would I care about making supercharger kits for the 318ti? without this community? I know my work will have users here, people will see it, they will like it. We are using the latest PHP 7.2. Now dont try to install Xenforo yourself and do the whole conversion, I say we hire someone to do it. Cut it in half. we can have the forum members pay us some as well. Although you could likely change the ph version yourself from cpanel too, I would suggest not to, it could break things. PS: Whats your number, if you drop me a message with it I will give you a ring later and we can talk over the phone if you like. I tried calling the BMW CCA but they put me on a machine. | I need to wait until Sept for some free time. I've migrated to a few times. I was a very early adopter of Xenforo. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 08-25-2019, 03:48 AM | #14 | Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: Edmonton Posts: 6 | Does anyone know the admins contact? I'm fairly new here, but I have a server and I'm willing to cover the costs of moving it over and taking over. I would also delegate a couple people to be moderators etc. If the admin reads this, can you please pm me? I'd like to keep this running. | | | 08-26-2019, 11:24 PM | #15 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by dranthony Does anyone know the admins contact? I'm fairly new here, but I have a server and I'm willing to cover the costs of moving it over and taking over. I would also delegate a couple people to be moderators etc. If the admin reads this, can you please pm me? I'd like to keep this running. | In all the years there hasn't been a need for moderators. I'm going move the forum over to another forum package and look for another host. The articles section may not be easy to port over. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti 2003 MINI Cooper S 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | Similar Threads | Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post | CA Extremely RARE and Amazing 1999 Alpine White 318ti - M-tech For SALE!!! | wills318ti | Cars for Sale | 17 | 09-02-2017 01:20 PM | CA 1998 BMW 318ti, M-Sport, DASC, Active | Trusted-1 | Cars for Sale | 16 | 02-12-2013 06:26 AM | KS '95 318ti - Supercharger, Sport Package, Many Extras | onewhippedpuppy | US and North America | 18 | 03-18-2011 02:41 AM | MO 95 318ti parts M42, Getrag Trany, ECU, cluster, exhaust, etc | PhotoMotion | US and North America | 5 | 04-06-2010 06:07 AM | 318ti DASC SPORT ACTIVE HEATED SEATS ALPINE WHITE BBS MOTORSPORT INTERIOR | inlacal | US and North America | 27 | 12-07-2007 04:01 PM | |