John,

How about a little technical info on the hardware behind this forum? What are your plans for upgrading as/when the registration and participation grows? Any more sponsors lining up to keep this place funded?

Regards.

John

The forum itself is vBulletin, which is the best forum software on the market. It's run in php, which is much faster than cgi or asp. I'll let John answer the rest, since I don't know his plans.

It's run on a Linux server using PHP/MySQL/vB3. The hardware is just a PIII 800/256 MB RAM/80 Gig. I'm going to build a new server very soon, as I expect this one is not going to last much longer at the current rate of growth.

I should mention that my main transformation site is on a different server.

As for sponsors, I want to keep this site pretty independent. All I have and plan to have are the google ads, which everyone seems to have stopped clicking. :whistle:

The forum itself is vBulletin, which is the best forum software on the market. It's run in php, which is much faster than cgi or asp. I'll let John answer the rest, since I don't know his plans.
Much faster than cgi, yes, true.
But not faster than asp. It's all about how you code it yourself.

As for sponsors, I want to keep this site pretty independent. All I have and plan to have are the google ads, which everyone seems to have stopped clicking. :whistle:
Hey John, one of the thing that I noticed with the Google ads, they are the same ones every time I go to the site. I know that Google determines what gets displayed, but if it's the same all the time, then people will tend to ignore them. Maybe there is a setting on the Google control panel that allows them to be rotated more often?

Are you running this site off of a dsl or cable modem? Just curious. Mine does also, but I was afraid of the bandwidth issues involved with larger traffic patterns. How has it handled it?