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[Eugen]

Bill, first of all, so nice to hear from you! Great story about the 4118!

If you can, please come by more often. As for the donation, I'll send you a private message. We're OK for another 1.5 months but we need to go to a new provider and it's most economical if we subscribe for one or two years in advance. Scott @sdunt has already donated $25 and all other donations will go towards that. I'll have to recreate the site on a different provider system, so it won't be the easiest task there, but we must move.

[Seabee]

Eugen, I assume you have my email to post to me. Glad to do it. Last summer when I was trying to sell the 4118, I had somehow misplaced my ability to sign into this site, and it was a very busy time due to some other issues, so I just wasn't getting signed back in. I enjoy this site and it has a purpose that needed to be addressed at the time the other site was sold again. Some of their issues have been address, some have not.

I recently tightened the security on my web browser recently , just to discover that it no longer wants me to sign onto the other site because it has advertising on it. I knew that, but never thought of it till it no longer allowed me easy access because of that advertising.

Oh well ! Life goes on and you are doing a great job!

Thanks! Bill

[propane1]

Eugen, I would like to contribute something, but have no idea how to. And so if you could let me know what to do, I’ll try and do that. I’m not to smart at doing this stuff, so I will get my son to help.

Noel

[DavidBarkey]

Eugen, I would like to contribute something, but have no idea how to. And so if you could let me know what to do, I’ll try and do that. I’m not to smart at doing this stuff, so I will get my son to help.

Noel

Same here Eugen
Dave

[Harry]

Let me know how I can help also.

[Eugen]

OK folks, I'll follow up with instructions.

I feel motivated right now so I'll go ahead and place an order for a new server over at the new host. It'll be $142.45 USD. I'll pay for it and then accept donations. It'll take me a little while to move the site over to the new host, but should be done by the end of the current pay cycle at the old hosting service, which is about 1.5 months from now. At some point I'll announce a downtime for the final switch. Will keep everyone updated. Also, I'll let everyone who said they could help with funds know how it can be done, in a private message.

[Eugen]

Forum update, April 2nd 2026
We are now full moved to a new provider server. The new server is paid for one year in advance, for the sum of $161 USD. This was discounted for new customers, probably next year it will be a little more. I think the price is normally $14.50 USD per month.

I've taken the opportunity to upgrade the forum software, which was long overdue. It all seems to work but if you discover issues, please report. I've also removed the google restriction so now we will be invaded by crawling bots; the benefit is that we might get new users, as the forum will once again show in google searches.

The only thing that I haven't yet configured is an email sending security mechanism, so, unfortunately, email messages sent by the forum to user accounts might be put in the spam folder. I'll fix this issue in one of the next few nights, which is the only time I get to work on such things. To give you an idea what I'm working on during the day... bricklaying.

[myerslawnandgarden]

Eugen,

Thanks for the update and your hard work.

I've sent you a PM regarding this move.

Thanks again,

Bob

[DavidBarkey]

Thats more than just anouther brick in the wall .