Due to some forced changes with our hosting provider, I am having to either move to servers that don’t use Plesk (a server control panel) or pay upwards of $45 a month additionally for Plesk licenses for them all. I would prefer not to have to pay $500 a year for something that is free on other hosts, so I am looking at migrating the sites I can by the deadline (Nov 1st). I may need to just buckle down and buy a license for Armorama and potentially AeroScale as well. Right now I am just focusing on the smaller, easier to move sites like Model Shipwrights and Automodeler.
Once I decide what I am doing with the bigger file sized sites, I will update this post and let everyone know what is going on. It may be we will need to halt adding new content at some point for those sites.
I would say for Model Shipwrights and AutoModeler, don’t add any new content until I give the all clear. It’s not like they get a lot added daily as it is.
This is all making me re-think my choices for software for these sites. I am once again going to run into the dreaded PHP version update wall at some point and I am kicking myself for ever thinking that this one-man-show content management option was ever going to work. We need something more like this forum software that is updated weekly (daily even).
Anyway more on that later. Have my hand full as it is. I actually had to take off a week of my part-time work to get this done.
Cheers,
Jim
PS: For any non-supporters reading this… this is why we have supporters! Sites like these cost $$$ and time, and if we had 160 new supporters instead of 16, well I would be able to spend even more time doing this kind of work. Hint, hint.
A public thanks to both of you. Your generosity has gone a long way to helping defer the cost of getting the annual license for Armorama and AeroScale (whose server includes ModelGeek and Railroad Modeling as well).
Hi Ron,
Do you mean via PayPal or via our subscribe option through Stripe? I have turned on quite a few EU options including paying direct via debit and paying via bank wire. They even listed one that was specific for for NL and it’s active. Let me know if that doesn’t work please.
Here is the direct link to our payments page: Payment Link
I’ve signed up a couple of days ago with a monthly Paypal donation, never heard of Stripe until reading the above but already setup the Paypal by then.
Ok, I created and added my Stripe contribution, will my Patreon be automatically cancelled, or is that something I need to do manually? If so, how?
Thank you.
