International Cockpit Club www down?

No worries Mark, 3.5GB per month isn’t overly excessive so I’m sure I can help.

Perl/PHP/Mysql etc are all available, no problem.

Give me a shout if you need it.

Roy.

Mark, if you can give me some idea of traffic/bandwidth requirements I may be able to offer a free home too. Let me know.

It would be a linux server running apache with cgi/php etc etc and shell access ok.

Roy.

Roy, thanks very much for the offer, it’s much appreciated.

We are averaging around 3.5Gb per month at the moment and Linux/Apache would be perfect. We also use a MySQL database for the forum, PHP, a bit of Perl etc..

Having said that, and as there is clearly still interest in the site, I’ve stumped up and renewed the current hosting for now and the site is back on-line. That’ll give me some breathing space to get something else arranged. Short term I’m looking to unload the site a bit to avoid the excess bandwidth charges which are the biggest issue. I’ve got something up my sleeve to help with that and will look to put something more permanent in place later.

Thanks again for the offer Roy, I may well be in touch!

Mark, if you can give me some idea of traffic/bandwidth requirements I may be able to offer a free home too. Let me know.

It would be a linux server running apache with cgi/php etc etc and shell access ok.

Roy.

Mark,

Have I got enough bandwidth on GB Airspares to host the cockpit club as well?

Quite happy to do that if you feel it is possible.

Bruce

That’s a very kind offer Bruce. Many thanks. I’ll have a look at the stats and see what spare capacity there is.

Mark,

Have I got enough bandwidth on GB Airspares to host the cockpit club as well?

Quite happy to do that if you feel it is possible.

Bruce

Hello chaps,

I’m afraid the bottom line is that the hosting costs have just become too great for me to continue paying out of my own pocket. On top of the hosting costs I am being hit with a monthly charge because the monthly data transfer totals are exceeding the account limits. It’s a victim of it’s own success I suppose and has too many visitors!

The original club founder covered the hosting costs for the first few years, but more recently I’ve been covering the increased hosting, domain name and excess data transfer costs myself.

I have been exploring cheaper options but, due to a mix up following the original hosting company being taken over by another, the annual renewal has come earlier than expected. Consequently they suspended the site without warning until it’s paid. Catch 22.

Options are to charge a small amount to subscribers (say, a couple of quid per year) to help cover the hosting costs, or to abandon the site as it stands and replace it with a Yahoo group, or to abandon the thing altogether. I would rather not do the latter because clearly some folk find the site useful, which is nice to know.

So, not sure what to do at the moment. Any suggestions welcome!

Don’t know, but I hope it’s up again soon 🙁