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O.K. I’ll take the bait, just what does a site/forum cost to operate. I have no idea. Who regulates this type of thing? You just have to pay for the domain and your bandwidth? Fill us in, maybe then someone not so financially challenged will step up to the plate.
Just curious.
K-B

Well...I'm not very computer literate (as many on this site have also confessed), but I sure do hate to see it go away. I have not been real prolific here, with my own writings, but have read every post. I feel like I know so many of you from my readings. Don't know that I am capable of maintaining the site, but I would offer to help any way I can, whether it be with my time, my minimal computer skills or monetary donations.

JL Simpson, aka SkyKing

Okay, here is the hosting information.

1. buy a domain name as it cannot be the same as it is now. www.bike-talk.com is available and from www.godaddy.com is $8.95 a year.

2. www.zerolag.com will host it for $15.00 / month and can leave a link active to bounce it to the new domain name www.bike-talk.com.

That's pretty cheap and if some of you can get together and pitch in you could keep this thing going strong.

Since we are shutting down the phones and email addresses, please post your questions here.

I really hope some of you will step up to the plate and keep this forum alive.

Cool who do I send some money to??

YAHOOO (not to be confused with the email place)

ALLLLright! We can do this **** I will contribute a month and the domain name money ...and I am sure that a lot of people would do something as well.....all we need is another 11 people that will do a month or 33 that will do 5 bucks....hell that is less than going to a movie. Is there a way to set up some sort of deal where we could just make a payment? What do we need to do? I have some time I can volunteer, not a great deal but a few hrs a week at least. I have no idea how these things work...but even if I am half burnt out and senile I can still learn a few things. Come on we can't let this just slip by.......let's make it happen.
Ride Free.......

Well,,, I think this can be do-able. I would like to think that CD will give us another week or so to get our doo-doo together. All we have to do is assign a manager and about 3-4 moderators that will share a 24 hour period, you know, for those that like to cuss and flame others; I’m talking about those that drift in and will cause trouble... As far as the money goes it’s a lot cheaper than I originally thought. So, my only real question is do we use zero lag’s computer as the server or do one of us have to have the capability to be a server? I know my computer would not make a good server.
Food for thought.
K-B

keep it going

i also will donate money,lets get someone in charge with a contact number so we have a place to send the money.....hook

So Chuck, would you like to be manager?

I think Chuck would be a good manager. I can throw in some money. I know nothing about hosting a website or the work involved in it. This year is busy for me..getting married, union collective agreemen and work so time I don't have a lot of but I can ante up about 50 bucks..just need to know where to send it..when I get some time I could learn to help out..let me know where to send the dough.

I'm committed to a months payment we only need 10 more. I can help moderate most days if so desired. And let me know if we need a server I might, I say MIGHT, be able to swing one of those too.

Things needed to host

1. You do not need a server. Zerolag will host (provide server, Internet connections etc) for $15.00 / month.

2. Someone has to step up and purchase the domain name i.e. www.bike-talk.com runs less than $10.00 a year at places like www.godaddy.com they can even host it but, I would be leery of it because of the no "ads" clause. www.zerolag.com will host and leave a redirect (very important) from this URL (http://biketalk.directparts.com) to the new one (www.bike-talk.com).

3. Maintenance and moderation is easy. Several people can be Administrators and others can be Moderators. Admins have control over all site functions, Mods have control over forums and some things like member timeouts. Mods and Admin preferences can be set by the site Admin. V-bulletin is great at helping with setup and sends updates to the site Admin for changes etc. There is a "how to" forum at their site also.

4. It is easy to add things like "Donate to support this site" as suggested. The headers like the top one and others like sidebars are easily edited. The Photo galleries (separate software) would be included.

5. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that since it is already established at www.zerolag.com setup fees to alter the hosting should be minimal. Vanessa@zerlolag.com can give specifics.

6. I will help the site Admin get going. I would walk them through the initial setup in the back end.

Come on, team up and keep this thing going!

The only request I have is that in the header it says something like "Founded in 1997 by Direct Parts" or the like. Sort of a legacy thing ya know...

****it

I did a search and came up with this......the guy registered the name TODAY, to me that STINKS apparently he saw wew were going to do something and scarfed the name.....

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