New website design

Submitted by K3BAY_Steve Kelly on Wed, 07/22/2015 - 20:30
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As many of you may have noticed the club website has taken a slightly different look. A lot of the same functionality exists while some of the features in the old site have now been removed do to limited activity.
If you have an idea for a forum category please let me know and I will get it added. The three that we currently have were the most popular with the old site.

Post and enjoy, remember it's your club site share your thoughts and questions so we can once again build these message threads

N3ADF - Thu, 07/30/2015 - 14:26

I'm curious if the AARC web site is hosted on a personal server or a hosting service?
I'm the web master for PGARES.org and ClanWallace.org. The service I use is HostingInsiders.com. It has only been down once in 14 years and then only because the Eastern Seaboard DNS server crashed when it was moved from NJ to NC. That wasn't the host's fault. HostingInsiders.com only charges me $35.40 per year including the domain name registration and they give me 1Gb of space and 50Gb monthly bandwidth and 1,000 email addresses. The hosting site runs the CPanel Accelerated2 front end and has all the buttons, whistles & bells such as .PHP, ASP & shopping cart. It is mirrored in two places for redundancy.
Yours, Aye! & 73
Jim"Bowie" - N3ADF

K3BAY_Steve Kelly - Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:12

Hi Jim,
Currently we do host with an ISP, been with them for about 8 years. Our current issue was something that has happened once and reliability with them has been near perfect. When all content has been restored we average about 2-3 gigs of storage, with unlimited storage, and unlimited bandwidth. Not knowing the exact issue that our ISP dealt with, RAID failure, Infection, or simply hardware failure due to poor maintenance is an issue that us as a customer will probably never know. Moving forward I can also take part of the blame, we do have the ability to back up our databases and site, but the current backup we had was nearly a year old. The decision was made to upgrade the website with the latest Drupal release and rebuild. Moving forward backups on our side will be more consistent in the event that this was to happen again.