Unsurprising, I guess Morturn, but still disappointing. I donated by bank transfer (details in first post) so all ok.That’s, that means a lot to us. Much appreciated.
There is a lot happing in the background with regular attempts by spammer to set up fake accounts for fraudulent activities. A lot of it originating in Russia, China etc.
Jim, consider it done by snail mail as always.This is a first time for me since I took over the running of this Forum over 20 years ago, I am sorry to say that funds that are raised by donations has nearly run out of money, the last 12 months have been very costly to keep going as it not like Facebook sites, we actually own our server, which means we don't have anyone restricting our content or telling us what we can or can not do.
Of course we lost a lot of funding when Covid pandemic meant we couldn't hold our meet ups where a lot of income was raised by raffles etc.
We need to raise money so that Warren , my son , who is our guru and dedicated to the day to day running of the site and fixes things.
I know that most funds are raised by some members who donate on a regular basis, and for that I really am really grateful.
Please could you come to our aid so we all can carry on enjoying this special site.
Don't forget (every little helps )
Thank you in advance.
Jim a.k.a postie.
Jim
I am sure all members are sorry to hear there are problems and would be glad to help. From what Warren has said it would appear that there are problems with the hardware. It is important to the survival of the forum that this is remedied. Also important that there is a reliable good backup separate from the main machine , so that any problems in the future are minimised (It would seem that now, presumably because of compression , photos from the backup seem to show less detail). I hope you will be able to ensure that you can restore the forum to full working
indeedySo the full offsite backup is still there, and the images will be back to full size when the new system is in place?. Had not realised that.
Is this different to Eddie Waring's famous 'up and under'?it will be what we call a lift and shift
oky doky. mr shifterit will be what we call a lift and shift