Changes Coming

[Mrs blueskyracer]

Well it seems that hydroracer has outgrown its shared hosting situation. We are now getting over 5 million hits a month!!! Some of you may have noticed a "resources exceeded" message recently. I have personally gotten it a couple of times. Or a page unavailable message is the other thing I have gotten.

While that is good in the promotion of our sport, it does have some drawbacks.

It is substantially more expensive to get a dedicated server. While we have a little in reserve for hosting and licensing it won't be enough to cover the expenses for the upcoming year.

It is time for our annual membership drive to get 2013 team members and I am hoping that everyone can step up and send a few dollars each so that we can continue to keep the site up and running. Any help that can be offered is always greatly appreciated. You can use google checkout for team memberships or paypal for donations. If you prefer a snail mail address, private message me and I will provide one.

For anyone who wonders what that money goes towards, it is hosting, software licensing, domain registration and security and back up of the site, there is no adminstrator pay for doing this job or purchasing computers to run it. (That is why I still have a full time job!) This is truly a labor of love kept alive with donations from folks that use the site.

Thanks for all you do
Teresa

[Mrs blueskyracer]

Transfer is all complete. You may have noticed a little disruption in service over the last few hours. We are now on our own island! Kind of exciting and kind of scary let hope that the site is faster and better than ever.

[Smitty]

Mailing address??

[blueskyracer]

PM sent

[Graham]

Membership

How much $$ of a donation are you looking for?? Need mailing address.

Thanks,
Don Graham III

[Mrs blueskyracer]

For those who don't know on the portal page https://hydroracer.net/modules/Jig/index.php at the bottom there is a google checkout cart for team memberships for the year. They are priced at $25.00, $50.00 and $100.00. Or there is also a donate button that can be used to make a donation outside of those amounts (either higher or lower).

If you need a snail mail address, private message either Blueskyracer or myself and we will be happy to respond.

Those that donate a team membership amount get the team member logo in their signature line and our sincere thanks for helping to defray the hard costs involved in keeping hydroracer.net alive. Thank you!

[daveracerdsh]

Hydroracer

Mike/Teresa: I will be happy to make a donation to the cause. As long as we all work together to promote the sport, both thru APBA, NBRA, and wildcat clubs I think you can count me in as well as a lot of other racers and non racers. Dave (AKA 9US)

[blueskyracer]

Mike/Teresa: I will be happy to make a donation to the cause. As long as we all work together to promote the sport, both thru APBA, NBRA, and wildcat clubs I think you can count me in as well as a lot of other racers and non racers. Dave (AKA 9US)

Yes Dave our dream for 2013 is that all groups could get over their differences and work together for the promotion of boat racing. We are crossing our fingers. I think the bottom line is we all love the sport!!