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Hey guys, now that I ave your attention...

The company I work for is kinda struggling right now. There is a pretty good chance that it will not make it through the next few months..unfortunately.

The website is hosted by my company (for free)...and so, if the company goes under, so does the website ...

Since the site has lost A LOT of steam over the last year, I will be very hesitant to spend my own money keeping it alive. If, the hosting discontinues ... I would need to know if you all would be willing to pitch-in to keep it alive.

It would SUCK to lose the site...but it wouldn't be the end of the world. We still have facebook. It may not seem as official, but either way, it would be up to ALL of us to keep it alive.

---I would most likely charge a yearly, "subscription" fee or take donations ... i honestly do not know. lol, losing my job would suck also Smile hopefully none of this happens. This is just a warning in case you come here and it says "website not available"

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Well you can count on me to help out Sharper. I may not be on much (money or the xbox, lol)(well,.. at all of recent times) but I still want this site to survive,...

We'll keep it hosted somewhere somehow,... how much is the hosting these days? How longs the domain leased to thee for?

Let us all know any other details,..

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Well, the domain name is all i have to pay for right now (it's only like $11.00)

The site is currently hosted at Aztec (the company i work for) so it's free at the moment. If Aztec were to close, I would lose the hosting within a month of closing.

at that time, if we were to keep the site, with all of the current content, hosting could run up to $10-$15 a month. so roughly $190.00 a year<-----WHICH WOULD SUCK for a site that gets partial use.

I would suggest moving to a free forum (like we had before).
This site isn't used to promote a product or sell anything. It isn't promoting a business .. so there is no income.

We do not have sponsors ... and I do not know anything about getting them.

I also do NOT want to charge you guys to access a website .. when we can easily do the same thing for free ... on a forum site.

--either way, as of right now, Aztec is still open, and we are still safe.

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isnt it only the Domain name we gotta pay for? if so how much is it for the year?

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sorry to hear that Sharper, hopefully things will pick up before anything drastic happens. Like you say though, it would be nice to keep the site after everything you have personally put in to it ..... but you have to put yourself first and foremost.

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That sucks sharps, i for 1 dont have FB because i got bored of all of these social network sites so if the site goes i guess ill catch you on xbl, hopefully you dont lose your job mate.

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