Florida Shooters Network

Will we get a refund for our membership when the site goes down again?

Situationalray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:48 pm Will we get a refund for our membership when the site goes down again?

If it was the case, no, as the money would be used to pay for the service and it is always paid in advance. But a pay option in unlikely to yield this problem if chosen wisely.

Situationalray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:48 pm Will we get a refund for our membership when the site goes down again?

I imagine our money would be going to enterprise servers that aren't in someones garage/office so if they DID go down it wouldn't result in another wipe of our database.

I have owned and hosted a web forum since the early 2000's.
At first on my own server which proved to be a lot of work. As web hosting sites became a business, I tried a couple 3.
I have been with Blue Host for 5 years now with no issues. Its a premium host for under 400/yr that includes daily backups, tech support, email servers and the such.

I had a porn attack right before the switch to blue host and switched to manually reviewed member requests and have had no issues. No hotmail or any of those two bit email clients are accepted as registration contacts. Nothing since.

No paid memberships, donations more than cover the cost of hosting and a few extras.

The biggest difference between that and this site is the general discussion is designated to the main topic of the web site only. All bitching, complaining, general skirt wagging and the such is not allowed nor are internet MMA tough guy competitions. Thats what facebook and instagram are for.

Chigger wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2019 12:01 pm All bitching, complaining, general skirt wagging and the such is not allowed nor are internet MMA tough guy competitions. Thats what facebook and instagram are for.

we get a little of that here, and they are usually the highest viewed topics

I like this idea alot

Chigger wrote:I have owned and hosted a web forum since the early 2000's.
At first on my own server which proved to be a lot of work. As web hosting sites became a business, I tried a couple 3.
I have been with Blue Host for 5 years now with no issues. Its a premium host for under 400/yr that includes daily backups, tech support, email servers and the such.

I had a porn attack right before the switch to blue host and switched to manually reviewed member requests and have had no issues. No hotmail or any of those two bit email clients are accepted as registration contacts. Nothing since.

No paid memberships, donations more than cover the cost of hosting and a few extras.

The biggest difference between that and this site is the general discussion is designated to the main topic of the web site only. All bitching, complaining, general skirt wagging and the such is not allowed nor are internet MMA tough guy competitions. Thats what facebook and instagram are for.

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If I have to pay for membership, do I get a refund when the forum goes down again?

Though I have to admit I might be more willing to pay if it were to guarantee the forum stays up instead of randomly going offline for a time ever year or two.

Jeff

Whatever it takes.

I donate annually to a couple forums which I enjoy using. I quit the forum that instituted a membership fee.