Thumper
05-20-2014, 10:14 AM
Believe it or not ... this "new" site has survived and will have been up and running for 2 years as of July 3rd of this year. We originally signed up for a 2-year run to see if it would work and I have to admit, we've cruised along pretty well. We've only needed to be rescued once, but Foo and Mr. Co9 worked their butts off (put in some LONG hours) to get us up and running again. But that wasn't really a fault of the site itself ... it was more of a hacker attack as we had no protections set up at that time. The site was so totally FUBAR'ed after the attack, our only other option was to hire a professional ... so Foo and Co9 saved us a bundle. But ... we knew we were stumbling through this stuff without Archer's help and expertise, so we have to learn from our mistakes and move forward.
We've just experienced another "mistake" but GoDaddy is being easy on us and we'll be forgiven up until June 1st. We're WAY over our limit for our data base ... I mean WAY over! BUT ... we have tons of storage space because we haven't been using it. Like I said, it's a mistake on our part and just part of the learning process. The resident techies are working on moving some stuff from the data base into storage. The worst case scenario would be if we have to delete some old posts. I really don't think that would be a problem as we still have every post ever made here ... but I seriously doubt many of us search back looking for something we posted 2 years ago. We'll see what happens with the juggling act before any deletions are made.
That said .... we just renewed for 3 years (last time was 2 years) at a cost of $251.64. Our renewal date is actually July 3rd ... but it's already a done deal so we don't have to worry about "forgetting" and having the plug pulled on the site if our rent isn't paid on time. The problem is ... our trusty ol' Good Hunting bank account is now overdrawn! I'd like to keep a minimum of $100 in a liquid account (for emergencies), but that's just an arbitrary number and doesn't mean squat. Here is a full accounting of our expenses as I promised to always be transparent here and post our spreadsheet. If anyone would like to donate, I'll accept cash, check, money order, PayPal, drugs, wimmins, whatever and I always keep a full accounting of all donors/donations on file. Here's our current ledger.
Good Hunting Ledger as of 05/20/14
Donations (by member number):
1) $160.65
2) $200.00
3) $25.00
4) $100.00
5) $25.00
6) $70.00
7) $200.00
8) $95.00
9) $75.00
10) $50.00
Grand Total Donated: $1000.65
Expenses:
1) Rent for old site Jan-July 2012 - $183.60
2) Balance of rent for old site after transition (Aug. 2012) - $22.95
3) New site set-up (Aug. 2012) - $25.00
4) Software for new site - $200.00
5) Domain renewal/Site hosting (good until July 3, 2014) - $134.96
6) Gift cards for Foo/Co9 as a "thank-you" for rebuilding site after hacker attack - $211.90 ($100 ea. + $5.95 ea. shipping)
7) Site hosting renewal w/GoDaddy (good until July 3, 2017) - $251.64
Total Expenses: $1030.05
Donations: $1000.65
Expenses: $1030.05
Balance: <font color="red">$29.40</font>
My snail-mail addy is: Jim Kribbs, 5515 North Cove, Lakeland, FL 33809
My PayPal email is: thumper1952@verizon.net
Reminder: ALL donations are totally voluntary!
We've just experienced another "mistake" but GoDaddy is being easy on us and we'll be forgiven up until June 1st. We're WAY over our limit for our data base ... I mean WAY over! BUT ... we have tons of storage space because we haven't been using it. Like I said, it's a mistake on our part and just part of the learning process. The resident techies are working on moving some stuff from the data base into storage. The worst case scenario would be if we have to delete some old posts. I really don't think that would be a problem as we still have every post ever made here ... but I seriously doubt many of us search back looking for something we posted 2 years ago. We'll see what happens with the juggling act before any deletions are made.
That said .... we just renewed for 3 years (last time was 2 years) at a cost of $251.64. Our renewal date is actually July 3rd ... but it's already a done deal so we don't have to worry about "forgetting" and having the plug pulled on the site if our rent isn't paid on time. The problem is ... our trusty ol' Good Hunting bank account is now overdrawn! I'd like to keep a minimum of $100 in a liquid account (for emergencies), but that's just an arbitrary number and doesn't mean squat. Here is a full accounting of our expenses as I promised to always be transparent here and post our spreadsheet. If anyone would like to donate, I'll accept cash, check, money order, PayPal, drugs, wimmins, whatever and I always keep a full accounting of all donors/donations on file. Here's our current ledger.
Good Hunting Ledger as of 05/20/14
Donations (by member number):
1) $160.65
2) $200.00
3) $25.00
4) $100.00
5) $25.00
6) $70.00
7) $200.00
8) $95.00
9) $75.00
10) $50.00
Grand Total Donated: $1000.65
Expenses:
1) Rent for old site Jan-July 2012 - $183.60
2) Balance of rent for old site after transition (Aug. 2012) - $22.95
3) New site set-up (Aug. 2012) - $25.00
4) Software for new site - $200.00
5) Domain renewal/Site hosting (good until July 3, 2014) - $134.96
6) Gift cards for Foo/Co9 as a "thank-you" for rebuilding site after hacker attack - $211.90 ($100 ea. + $5.95 ea. shipping)
7) Site hosting renewal w/GoDaddy (good until July 3, 2017) - $251.64
Total Expenses: $1030.05
Donations: $1000.65
Expenses: $1030.05
Balance: <font color="red">$29.40</font>
My snail-mail addy is: Jim Kribbs, 5515 North Cove, Lakeland, FL 33809
My PayPal email is: thumper1952@verizon.net
Reminder: ALL donations are totally voluntary!