Server Move and How You Can Help!

[Player0]

Hi All,

Just wanted to thank everyone here for their help in the past either financially, with hardware donations, or simply by being helpful with the forums. In about 4 months, and unless my math is wrong, LiquidNinjas will become 7 years old. A lot has changed in that time. While I'm saddened to see this site go from 400,000 unique hits per month to under 50,000 in the past couple years, I know my time has gone in to better things such as work and family. LN has always been a hobby for me and the moment it became work I lost interest in it. I'm still very active in overclocking and cooling and gaming and hardware but I don't often share what I'm doing or have done. It takes a lot of effort to share the information, take pictures, do reviews, and there are a lot of other sites with people with a lot more money and time for it than me.

I cut my PHP legs on LN and DCsig and messing around with both has been great for my personal career. As a side effect, I can't sit at work and write reviews and posts like I used to in the past. The people I work with would be smart enough to find where I'm posting and when I'm posting it So no more slacking off for Player0. Which is why DCSig is never finished...

I have no intention on letting LN go anywhere though. If it's a chat site for friends and we all go elsewhere to get our information than that's fine. I hope you will all continue to help share your projects here though. I'll continue to maintain and pay for the server and bandwidth for my own pursuits. I will be moving the server from our current host to Amazon EC2 very shortly.

This is a great time to upgrade LN software. vbulletin, photopost, vbportal all cost money to upgrade. These upgrades add features and security to the website. They're probably fine as is but I am taking donations at this time.

You can send paypal payments to paypal@liquidninjas.com. Do not send messages to me at that email address since I will not see them. Any amount is helpful and I will use the donations to improve LN directly.

Since this site is yours as much as mine, I am also willing to listen to any votes for change. If there are any changes I can make to the site to make it better please let me know your thoughts. My iron like grip on certain rules may be a bit more relaxed now. We'll see what happens

[Player0]

Oh! I don't know if I made it public yet why we'll be moving servers. LayeredTech raised their rates a while ago by a substantial amount and now I'm paying well over market rate for the service I'm getting. $151/mo to be exact. That's damn near a car payment. Amazon will cut that cost down by maybe half and I'll get more performance. Plus I can do some many much needed upgrades to PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc in the process since I'm currently running an ancient Fedora Core 5 install.