Hey there,
I am thinking of giving this forum into other hands. This means: If anyone is interested in hosting our board, please contact me via PM.
Ideally you can host this forum on your own webspace with your own domain. The content of the forum could be transferred via a dump of the database.
You need. SMF Forum software (php, mysql)
Kind regards,
turnaround
What? :o
How long have you been hosting this site? Just curious
More than 10 years for sure, I guess around 12.
Oh.
I mean, can't we keep this same host?
Hi there, are you selling the site? Or just "passing it" to someone who can keep it running?
How many visitors this site has on average?
Quote from: bugmenot on June 28, 2018, 09:26:23 AM
How many visitors this site has on average?
Can you access this page? :)
Then you get an idea.
http://www.swedishsongs.de/smf/index.php?action=stats
I want the forum to be continued. But I don't want to host it anymore on my own webspace as I plan to cancel my subscription.
The costs each year are around 40 Euros so not that much.
You should turn around. ;)
Nice numbers.
You could add a little of adsense and get these 40 Euros, why unsubscribe?
Or you just sick of responsibility?
New laws and regulations in Europe that make it really difficult to host a site in Germany these days. It's really not about the money.
What's the deal about? Privacy?
So to avoid those laws the site should change url from a German domain .de to something else, and the owner should be not an eu citizen?
The site should be compliant to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
And I think we need a https certificate too.
There are law firms who try to sue you because people pretend to have "personal distress" when a site has no https (no joke)
What a nice way to overcomplicate things.
This new law is for business websites. Private websites don't need that and they even don't need to tell anything about the website owner.
I think you should change the domain anyway to a free domain because 40 euro is a lot.
How big is the database? Maybe we find a free server for it, too.
The advantage of free services is you can also stay anonymously to avoid any trouble.
But I think anyway if you don't sell anything nobody could make trouble.
I use bplaced.net and internetworx.org
You could register a domain like this: www.swedishsongs.xhits.de
http://www.internetworx.org/kostenlos/?id=subdomain
I think this service will run for a long time because they already exist for a long time.
Thank you.
As we do not even have a tracker or adsense etc. (no tracking) and the site is absolutely non-commercial maybe we can keep on the current setting and continue by adding privacy statements when registering.
Quote from: turnaround on July 01, 2018, 07:46:16 PM
Thank you.
As we do not even have a tracker or adsense etc. (no tracking) and the site is absolutely non-commercial maybe we can keep on the current setting and continue by adding privacy statements when registering.
That would be great.
You know guys, we don't say this too often, but this forum is great.
okay, great, sounds like it can keep going as it is, hopefully. I haven't been here as much as I used to, however it is a great forum and Turnaround has done an amazing job.
If we finished discussing the future of the forum and this site is so popular, offtopic.
I am looking for a job of content manager in Stockholm.
Does anyone here from Stockholm and their company is looking for content specialist?