DGN's Recent Downtime

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The website was offline due to a circular argument with our previous web host(IPS), which after days of trying we had to switch away from (we are now with HostGator.com). Essentially despite DGNs low-ish "footrraffic" the website itself has grown to a fairly large size, and, the old host wanted to charge a TON of extra money to keep hosting as usual, (despite all the things you see about "unlimited" bandwidth/hosting when you get into the details of what you actually need, a website like this doesn't fall under the "cheap plan" category) I thought we could just remove some parts of DGN, but that proved unrealistic as the amount they wanted to get rid of was over 2/3rds of the site.

Unfortunately they didn't give us any time to switch to a new host and just sort of dropped this on us, with no way for me to access the email notifications to let people en-mass know what was going on. The transition took longer than it would have otherwise. The transfer to the new host (which is more expensive, but not the $120 dollars a month that IPS wanted) unfortunately due to the half a week of downtime several donation subscribers quit, which essentially left us with not enough money for the month, I paid it with money I don't have, hopefully things will pick up by the time the next month rolls around. (as it is there is a $20 bill for the domain names (detroitgothic.XXX) that we don't have money for coming in a week).

Sorry for the trouble, its really been a ton of stress getting it back up.

[Fierce Critter]

Thanks for the efforts and expenditures, Troy.

Again, sorry I don't have the $$ to help. I had to turn down several things I donate to this year and handmade most of our Christmas presents.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Thanks for the positive thoughts.

I do understand. Heck if I had the money I'd just pay for the whole thing myself and not even have a "donations" section.

[deadcoldgothgirl]

I missed this place. I was really happy when I saw feeds for it in my email box.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I missed this place. I was really happy when I saw feeds for it in my email box.

Its nice to hear. Sometimes I start to feel like all the effort is pointless but then I remember why I do it when I read stuff like this.

[deadcoldgothgirl]

Its nice to hear. Sometimes I start to feel like all the effort is pointless but then I remember why I do it when I read stuff like this.

This is like a home away from home. I might not know a lot of the people on here in person, but I do feel connected to people that actually care when I come on here.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

This is like a home away from home. I might not know a lot of the people on here in person, but I do feel connected to people that actually care when I come on here.

[*Siren*]

I'm so happy to have DGN back! I've missed everyone here.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I'm so happy to have DGN back! I've missed everyone here.

Unforutnately I think we lost a lot of people in the "downtime" which, will take a lot of work to get back.

[*Siren*]

Unforutnately I think we lost a lot of people in the "downtime" which, will take a lot of work to get back.

Once people know that DGN is up and running, they will come back.

[n0Mad]

"If you fix it, they will come."

[Saint Germain]

I am most time more a lurker than an active user. But the downtime made me really missing the community.

Nevertheless, hope that I could help.

Edited December 26, 2011 by Saint Germain

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I am most time more a lurker than an active user. But the downtime made me really missing the community.

Nevertheless, hope that I could help.

thanks sir, the help was much appreciated.