Aaand we’re back

[Beany]

Instagram vids used to play on the page, maybe it’s a insta change but thought it may just be something on here..

@Beany

I'll drop your motherfucking subnet, Ian.

I’m in Vegas.. a B21 will drop my response off shortly

Uh huh.

Nurse, the meds, quickly.....

[Rich B]

Thanks for sorting it Matty, much appreciated as always!

[Matty]

It absolultely feels a bit zippier - I'm familiar with the hosting company, and while I have strong opinions on them that rule them out for me at work, can't grumble about the underlying hardware specs. Just the upgrade at a basic hardware level (not even amount of RAM etc, just more modern CPUs) should handle the bot load better, etc.

And credit where credit is due for doing an upgrade on a Friday night for a server that costs you money rather than making you money, and where the userbase are a bunch of cunts nice one!

Well I was with Linode, I've been with them probably 20 years now, recommended by our former alumni David Brown. Alas over the years they've very much moved into the "premium" end of hosting and their prices have increased to match, so now is a good a time as any to move.

It was a toss up between OVH, Netcup and Hetzner for hosting - latter two have good reviews but no UK hosting options. They all lack the premium support or backup options that Linode has, but I've now configured it to backup to my own NAS so that's covered, and I rarely needed any support anyway with the amount of resources for stuff like Ubuntu out there now.

[mik]

Stuff

I don’t know what most of that means, but is there any way we can contribute to costs Matt? Please.

[scotta]

Stuff

Is there any way we can contribute to costs Matt? Please.

This.

You shouldn’t be out of pocket for running this for us.

[Rich B]

Yep, i’d be more than happy to send a voluntary yearly sub or whatever method worked to make sure one of us isn’t stitched up with the whole cost (bearing in mind i have zero clue on what sort of figures it takes to host a forum!!)

[Matty]

Unfortunately I only take payment in Lotus cars, so if you'd all like to have a whip around....

I appreciate the gesture, but honestly, the hosting fees are now down to £65/year, and Google ads from CL bring in about £120/year which covers it, so it's all golden. Some of the other tech work gets done during my downtime at work....so....you're all technically paying me to do that from the public purse anyway

[jamcg]

Glad you’re not out of pocket, I’d have thrown something in too, but in the absence of funds to send you a car do we all need to put 50p in and get you a nice keyring for Christmas instead

[scotta]

Glad you’re not out of pocket, I’d have thrown something in too, but in the absence of funds to send you a car do we all need to put 50p in and get you a nice keyring for Christmas instead

[nuttinnew]

Seems faster since the upgrade. Does the forum hamster now have a carbon fibre wheel now?

do we all need to put 50p in

The problem was caused by Beany putting 50p in the hamster.

so if you'd all like to have a whip around.

The problem was caused by Beany having a whip around the hamster.

[nuttinnew]

Thanks, Matty

[Beany]

Seems faster since the upgrade. Does the forum hamster now have a carbon fibre wheel now?

do we all need to put 50p in

The problem was caused by Beany putting 50p in the hamster.

so if you'd all like to have a whip around.

The problem was caused by Beany having a whip around the hamster.

Better than you putting your tuppence in the dog.

...honestly, I'm not even sure if that makes sense. Sounds a bit horrid though, doesn't it?

[nuttinnew]

Better than you putting your tuppence in the dog.

...honestly, I'm not even sure if that makes sense. Sounds a bit horrid though, doesn't it?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... nce&page=1

[Beany]

Better than you putting your tuppence in the dog.

...honestly, I'm not even sure if that makes sense. Sounds a bit horrid though, doesn't it?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... nce&page=1

You pervert.

[nuttinnew]

Mole black?

[Beany]

Mole black?

For the header ov9 image, yes.

Which is now back.

Nice one Matty