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[KERRSURF]

here look, he actually went for it, good lad.

Bahamas no less.

http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/forums/sh...ad.php?t=42380

[KERRSURF]

To you or Koi?

you mean it's meant to go to Koi?

[Albannach]

I just asked a newbie for a tenner and he is paypaling the money.

job done.

get out there troops and get collecting!

To you or Koi?

[Bibs]

I just asked a newbie for a tenner and he is paypaling the money.

job done.

get out there troops and get collecting!

I'll do my bit an put a flyer on the one next to my work. Where are the flyers you can print out????

I do have the URL on my bonnet for all to see for advertising

[MattF]

If I remember correctly, Lucky would already have a good idea on that side of things. I believe his areas of interest/expertise include SQL, PHP and the like.

[KERRSURF]

I just asked a newbie for a tenner and he is paypaling the money.

job done.

get out there troops and get collecting!

[Albannach]

still waitin in for my stickers

I didn't get any stickers, but that's not why I subscribed. I subscribed because I'd found the info I got from here saved me a fortune.

What about chargin to change your user name!!!!!

I suggested that to Koi, just after I changed mine

One suggestion for financing the site but keeping it free for newbies and lurkers is: Annual Site Costs/Number of fee paying members = Annual membership fee.

How about deleting accounts not posted from, for say one month after creation? But e-mail the user before deletion asking for a contribution.

Tiered memberships is a great idea, as is micro shops and affiliate links to Milners, LAS, Tony (sorry, but you make money from here too), 4Crawler and Rough Trax.

What needs to be remembered is that individually, most of the ideas in this thread won't be enough, but collectively they could keep the forum alive.

[MudSurfer]

Just going on a slightly different tack Andy/Nigel, have you ever considered using a forum software that is possibly less resource intensive than VB? (Working on the assumption that server load itself is one of the problems you are having).

That's what we're talking about, bringing your talent to the table - what sort of work would be involved in moving to a Unix/Linux environment and not losing any of the data stored???

[MattF]

Just going on a slightly different tack Andy/Nigel, have you ever considered using a forum software that is possibly less resource intensive than VB? (Working on the assumption that server load itself is one of the problems you are having).

[pirate-storm]

although i prob cant afford it but im willing to pay £20 a year to keep forum id be lost without you guys as i cant fix my truck myself

[MattF]

Cool - let's host it at Matt's.....

VB and MySQL. Ooh, that combination is getting me all tingly..........


not.

[MattF]

These two appear to be well recommended, however:

http://www.theplanet.com/
http://www.ovh.co.uk/

[MudSurfer]

I don't.

Cool - let's host it at Matt's.....

[MattF]

Who do you use?

I don't.

[nero279]

effectively we are trying to find £40 a month at the minute? = £480 a year

How many blue star members do we have? I'm gonna hazard a complete guess at 60.

£480 / 60 = £8, i think £18 a year subscription would seem a little high to many although some would be more than prepared to pay that.

I would say put the annual subs up to £12.50 should bring in around £150 of that,

leaving £330 p.a. shortfall.

I'm gonna be flippant again and suggest we maybe we would get 1 or 2 new subscribers a month if we pushed the voluntary subscriptions working on one a month at £12.50 p.a. = £150

still leaves £180 a year to find.

An annual fundraiser? As has already been mentioned most driving events would be governed by MSA etc... So a non-driving annual fundraiser?

Even just a membership push? if everyone was to print 6 calling cards and place them on surfs, we are basically looking for an extra 15 paying members a year at £12.50 on top of what i already allowed.

Not sure i agree with a dual layer membership, but i'm sure the admin ain't gonna say no if an extra cheque falls on the door mat every now and then? There's already people basically doing that anyway though in their own subtle ways (thinking Bushwhacker & Splasher, vixxen also has a blue star i think, and possibly there's others too)