I am kind of new to this board but have noticed the board is on the slow side.

I went through a similiar situation on another board I frequent (bimmerfest.com) and we, the members of the board gave a small contribution of around $10 to $20 each through paypal and the owners of the site bought a better server.

I would definitely do this and was wondering how many others would do this as well ?

Also, who is the person that owns the board that we could contact to suggest this ? ?

There was a donation drive last year, and new servers were installed sometime last fall (?timing?). Performance improved greatly then, and it's actually only been the last 2 days that it's become a problem again. I'd suspect external issues first...

Regards,
Gordon

I'd give 10 or 20 bucks, I love this site!

I already gave them $50 in the last drive. maybe they can set it up again for the new guys as our numbers are growing...

I will donate - perhaps an open donation process with occassional financial drives would be the way to go. Paypal is my preferred method - secure and easy. Easy to record and track donations. John

As Gord has said, the response has been fine since the upgrade - it's only over the last few days that it's degraded to pre-upgrade levels. Whatever the cause, I suspect it's a transient problem that won't be cured by throwing more money at it at this time.

already did.

Originally posted by Gord96BRG
There was a donation drive last year, and new servers were installed sometime last fall (?timing?). Performance improved greatly then, and it's actually only been the last 2 days that it's become a problem again. I'd suspect external issues first...

Regards,
Gordon


From the first time I started visiting this site months ago I always had a problem when there are attachments (such as pictures) in the evening when I suspect the traffic is at it's highest, it sometimes takes forever to get the attachments opened.

During the daytime it usually isn't a problem so I would suspect a server upgrade would eliminiate this.

In the evening I use 2 different computers (desktop & laptop) to go onto this site with and both are VERY fast compuiters with Cable modems. I know this isn't my computers problem when I have both computers having trouble with the same site.

there is a disagreement between IE6 and either vbulleting or the database. it's being worked on

Personally, I feel that those who benefit the most (i.e., make a living off of sales from this site) should pay for the upgrades. Just my .02!

Originally posted by RCCAZ 1
Personally, I feel that those who benefit the most (i.e., make a living off of sales from this site) should pay for the upgrades. Just my .02!

From what my understanding is, these guys who create the site aren't making much of a living off of it.

Only when they grow the site to be very large like for example, edmunds.com then they could make a living on it.

Methinks prhaps he was referring to the sponsors and vendors.

Grrr... can we please post this stuff in the right forum? And many of us already HAVE donated money, and we got a lovely new server out of it. Until yesterday, my DSL connection has had no issues opening anything on here, unless they are exceptionally large pictures linked to other sites. Which may be some of the problem for some people who complain that "attachments" don't load quickly enough. Attachments are limited in size, and you're probably having problems loading linked pictures hosted elsewhere.

And, I just realized that the slow-as-dirt internet station at work I'm currently at is flying on this site at the moment, so I assume whatever it was is now fixed.

usually pretty fast. was slow a couple of days ago but seems ok today

What hurts?

Remember...you guys are passing through a DMZ to get to this server...you may have DSL and Cable or T1(in my case) but that doesn't matter...internet congestion will slow transmission down...unless you are on the LAN this server is running on you always have this chance of slowness....doesn't matter what ISP or speeds your running at work/home...