Peter
Administrator
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2018
Apologies for the recent downtime on our main site and forums, but we have now fully migrated over to our new hosting servers. We still remain on a shared hosting platform, but we are top of the bracket, with the best you can get. We were previously on a Shared Plus package, but we are now on the Shared Business Pro package, which includes a high performance server. I am hoping this will suffice for the weeks and months ahead.
If it's not enough, then we will need to look at alternative arrangements, such as VPS servers. Dedicated servers are out of the question for a site such as this, due to how expensive they are, and the average traffic we would get over a 12 month period. I always said i would be honest and upfront with the costs of this site, so the breakdown of the Business Pro 12 months cover comes to $271.44. Our weekly streams have raised $200 in the past 10 months, so thanks to the generous donations and subscriptions from viewers, the offset for myself to pay was $71.44. I also need to cover the domain costs, as well as the XenForo license but that's still on me. I am happy to keep covering that, and thank you so much to those who kindly donate and subscribe! You guys are amazing!
Also a personal thank you to all of the staff behind the scenes for helping out with this, as well as forum member @LemonHaze who proved himself invaluable today in particular. Going forward, we are still not stopping as we prepare for Shenmue 3. We will be looking at the staff levels of the site , as well as the site and forums themselves to see what improvements we can make. I will also be finishing up the remainder of the History section within the coming weeks (currently at over 15,000 words plus images), and also, moving a lot of our content to a CDN to help take more stress off of the sites servers in anticipation of any sudden spike in traffic. I said the site wouldn't crash under my ownership, and i am still so humbly sorry that it did in March with the release of the MAGIC 2019 Shenmue 3 trailer. Finally, we have some site and forum tweaks which we will keep under wraps for now, but once again, thank you all for being here and for supporting this amazing franchise.
The story goes on...
If it's not enough, then we will need to look at alternative arrangements, such as VPS servers. Dedicated servers are out of the question for a site such as this, due to how expensive they are, and the average traffic we would get over a 12 month period. I always said i would be honest and upfront with the costs of this site, so the breakdown of the Business Pro 12 months cover comes to $271.44. Our weekly streams have raised $200 in the past 10 months, so thanks to the generous donations and subscriptions from viewers, the offset for myself to pay was $71.44. I also need to cover the domain costs, as well as the XenForo license but that's still on me. I am happy to keep covering that, and thank you so much to those who kindly donate and subscribe! You guys are amazing!
Also a personal thank you to all of the staff behind the scenes for helping out with this, as well as forum member @LemonHaze who proved himself invaluable today in particular. Going forward, we are still not stopping as we prepare for Shenmue 3. We will be looking at the staff levels of the site , as well as the site and forums themselves to see what improvements we can make. I will also be finishing up the remainder of the History section within the coming weeks (currently at over 15,000 words plus images), and also, moving a lot of our content to a CDN to help take more stress off of the sites servers in anticipation of any sudden spike in traffic. I said the site wouldn't crash under my ownership, and i am still so humbly sorry that it did in March with the release of the MAGIC 2019 Shenmue 3 trailer. Finally, we have some site and forum tweaks which we will keep under wraps for now, but once again, thank you all for being here and for supporting this amazing franchise.
The story goes on...