EDIT>> Off-Topic Now a Members Only Forum
I'm going to try this out for a while to see how it goes... only members will be allowed to view and post to the Off Topic forum in an effort to hopefully encourage stronger participation in a more private setting. You'll need to be logged in to even see a mention of the off-topic forums now. Post away!
Google AdSense Banners now in forums
As you may have noticed by now, I've set up Google AdSense banners for the forums and will be deploying them through the rest of the site over the next little while, that is assuming there aren't many strong objections.
Don't think I'll make a ton from them but thought we might as well give it a try to at least offset volvoxc.com's hosting fees.
New Hosting
As mentioned in another thread, I've moved volvoxc.com over to a new host. Originally these names have been hosted on a friend's server Downtown Vancouver but I really wanted to get a hold of some more server features in order to build out the site properly (eg PHP and MySQL).
xc70.com remains hosted free of charge at Combustion Hosting (many thanks again) to serve you our both our forums and photo galleries. The forums and photo galleries consume a lot of processor and bandwidth and I didn't want to start pushing our luck by offering even more dynamic features on their servers, so any new features will be located on volvoXC.com and we'll keep xc70.com status quo.
New Forums
As you may know, I've tried a test install of PHPBB running with MySQL on xc70.com but wasn't too pleased with the performance. Once I get the performance issue and the other details some members had mentioned, sorted out I'll be moving the entire forums over. For now, we remain with the CGI scripted Ikonboard product.
New Features
Oh, and those new features I mentioned. Those would include things like browser based news posting and updates, a review engine, knowledge base and dynamic how-to section as well as a more useful links page. A big list but hope to start pluggin away at it soon now that I have a few more resources available to use.
Thats all for now, thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Taylor.
PS, you may not have noticed, but there's now a "Make a Donation" button at the bottom of each page in the forums. Not entirely necessary, but if you find the want or need to give, that'd be the button to click
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