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[Hydrogen]

The Neocodex Administration is glad to announce to you all that we have decided to upgrade our hosting package to semi-dedicated! Neocodex receives at least 300 unique members each day posting on its forums along with hundreds more guests. The sheer amount of users Neocodex serves is so high that our shared hosting solution can no longer handle our growth and size. This news post is to inform you that this process should be seamless for you all and there should be little to no downtime on our part while the host moves all of our files onto a new server which only a few other websites will be on. However, we are just letting you know incase there is some downtime so that you all know what is going on.

With this new move to semi-dedicated hosting, Neocodex will see faster speeds on its forums and a goodbye to all of those pesky server busy errors. Since the server we will be on only hosts a few other sites, we will be able to more efficiently use the servers resources for our ends.

The new semi-dedicated server, albeit a little costly, will greatly help us handle our growth in recent days and is promising for Neocodex's future.

The Neocodex Administration wants to thank you all for your patience during those server busy errors and also for your support througout our history. We are sure that this new development is just the beginning to a new age to come for Neocodex!

[Random]

Very cool, I hope it encourages more posting and growth for Codex

Lyke zomg first post.

Edited by RaNDoMNesS, 19 March 2007 - 05:31 PM.

[Hawk]

So... who is going to pick up the extra cost/How many new adds are we going to get?

[Hydrogen]

So... who is going to pick up the extra cost/How many new adds are we going to get?

Everything will be staying constant and we wont be getting any new ads. If we do get some new ads, they will be in non-intrusive places where you wont be bothered too much by them .

The Admins had a discussion over the past day and a half taking into consideration our finances and all that good stuff. We should be good for a while based on average income per month and what we already have .

[Quadra]

Everything will be staying constant and we wont be getting any new ads. If we do get some new ads, they will be in non-intrusive places where you wont be bothered too much by them .

The Admins had a discussion over the past day and a half taking into consideration our finances and all that good stuff. We should be good for a while based on average income per month and what we already have .

Good to know Codex is growing so well without getting into financial difficulty. Hopefully the improved service will attract new members so that the good pace we are on can continue.

Edited by Quadra, 19 March 2007 - 05:46 PM.

[padora]

That's very nice to hear. You can be expecting more donations from me in the near future.

Go NeoCodex!

[ArchAngel.]

Lol...
That conclusion can compete for one of the corniest things you've ever said, but alas.
A development known to come sooner or later.
Gratz Codex.

I'll be helping out with the costs soon.

[Gargar]

Good to hear.

[ShadowLink64]

Backups have been made, so the worst case scenario is that we lost 19 hours of Neocodex activity.

So... who is going to pick up the extra cost...

That's the beauty of it... surprisingly, no one. We evaluated our current revenue and semi-dedicated has recently become an achievable purchase for us. We will only be sharing the server with 3 other users, compared to sharing with 956 users like we're doing right now.

[Bryan]

That sounds awesome =] Glad to see that activity has caused such a dramatic increase. If I can find any prepaid credit cards around the house I'll shove a couple bucks in donations =P

[Cory]

TBH I made a nice sarcastic comment, but I got the error and it was erased. : (



Good news for Neocodex.

[foogie]

hot damn!

I was getting so pissed at those damn server busy things!! XD

[Eeyore]

Oh awesome!!! Whoot for codex!

[Waser Lave]

Woot, interesting definition of seamless though.

FIRST POST ON THE NEW SERVER!!

Edited by Laser Wave, 21 March 2007 - 08:41 AM.

[Tetiel]

Google ads pays well on a site like this. Instead of a pay per click, I'm assuming Hydro does something where codex gets paid per 1k views of an ad. Which... think about it. With the amount of people on this site posting randomly and refreshing we see A LOT of ads. Ignore them, but they still load. Which means money for the site

[Nick]

hot damn!

I was getting so pissed at those damn server busy things!! XD

[Black Flame]

Sweet! The server-busy things are gone ...for now

[Silk]

Woot, interesting definition of seamless though.

Ha ha, was going to comment on that too.

Nice to be back, nayways.

[Waser Lave]

The error returned was:

Sorry, the server is too busy to handle your request, please try again in a moment

[ShadowLink64]

The error returned was:

Sorry, the server is too busy to handle your request, please try again in a moment

Yeah, we're just calibrating our monitor to see how much the server will handle. I cranked the limit up a bit, so please let me know if you see any more.

[Hydrogen]

Woot, interesting definition of seamless though.

FIRST POST ON THE NEW SERVER!!

Yeah ... Hopefully it wont be that way again . We had some miscommunication and things went all bad from there . Good thing is that we can host many projects on the server now

Google ads pays well on a site like this. Instead of a pay per click, I'm assuming Hydro does something where codex gets paid per 1k views of an ad. Which... think about it. With the amount of people on this site posting randomly and refreshing we see A LOT of ads. Ignore them, but they still load. Which means money for the site

Unfortunately, those ads are still pay per click . There are some ads on codex which aren't though . Per view ads would be cool . Maybe we can get some of those too once I find another non-intrusive area on the board .