Good afternoon, OGBoarders.
As many of you have noticed, we hit our bandwidth cap (350gb) about a week ago. We received a 50gb extension and proceeded to hit our cap again last night during the game. We managed to convince the host to give us another extension until the cap reset at 12am. The good news is that our traffic is through the roof. The bad news is that there are no more levels of shared hosting with which to upgrade.
As such, we will be upgrading to the first level of Virtual Private Server(VPS) hosting. This will give us 2TB of bandwidth and greatly increased performance. This should also help us loosen the security restraints that existed on the share server which some of you have triggered.
Monthly fees will increase from $24.95 to $60. This monthly fee is sustainable for just under 2 years at our current funding level and will support all but the most explosive user growth.
Tonight at 11:50pm EST, we will be shutting down the boards so that our hosts can transfer our site from our current shared server to the VPS. We don't expect it to take longer than 1 hour.
As always, we appreciate your patience as we continue grow and evolve.
The Moderator Team
As many of you have noticed, we hit our bandwidth cap (350gb) about a week ago. We received a 50gb extension and proceeded to hit our cap again last night during the game. We managed to convince the host to give us another extension until the cap reset at 12am. The good news is that our traffic is through the roof. The bad news is that there are no more levels of shared hosting with which to upgrade.
As such, we will be upgrading to the first level of Virtual Private Server(VPS) hosting. This will give us 2TB of bandwidth and greatly increased performance. This should also help us loosen the security restraints that existed on the share server which some of you have triggered.
Monthly fees will increase from $24.95 to $60. This monthly fee is sustainable for just under 2 years at our current funding level and will support all but the most explosive user growth.
Tonight at 11:50pm EST, we will be shutting down the boards so that our hosts can transfer our site from our current shared server to the VPS. We don't expect it to take longer than 1 hour.
As always, we appreciate your patience as we continue grow and evolve.
The Moderator Team
