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    Homepage of the Dead was a moment away from dying today

    I had an automatic renewal fire through today for my hosting charges. It was around 3X what I paid last time (renews every 2yrs).

    I contacted the company and the amount they were willing to reduce it by was so little, even after tens of minutes and me proclaiming the site had been with then for 25yrs and being forced to close it over a huge price hike was heart breaking, I was seemingly left with nothing to do but close up shop. I even asked to repeatedly speak to a supervisor etc etc. I was about to do the horrid dead but the line dropped/failed.

    I contacted them again half an hour later and this time they about halved the cost. It's still around double my last cost, so annoyingly high, but I just didn't have the heart to turn off the life support

    So the site lives on but with price hikes like that it's getting hard to justify
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Happy the place is still going. But, seriously, if the site is costing you too much to keep going then it might be worth letting it end. No sense in getting into financial difficulties for a website.

    A 3x price hike though? Fuck me. What was their justification for that?

    It seems these days, companies think that they can just lob on any old price increase to their "product" and everyone will just play along.
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    Price gouging chancers.

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    When this comes up for renewal again Neil please put it out in the wild.
    I would be more than willing to help with costs. If you don't want to do that then shoot me a message.
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    Just to set expectations - As it stands, this site will probably end in about 1yr. The hosting prices increased dramatically when I paid them this time last year, to the extent I don't feel I just justify them going forwards. So according to my diary, in about year....

    Just had to pay the annual backup service bill which only adds to the costs...
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quite the ride.

    Gonna enjoy it while it's still rolling, though.

    Perhaps the Facebook group version could take over afterwards, be revamped, whatever?

    We'll need a rescue station...
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    Thought I looked at the chat features on facebook and it was almost zero?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Thought I looked at the chat features on facebook and it was almost zero?
    How do you mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    How do you mean?
    When I looked many years ago there was nothing within Facebook that offered a forum half as solid as say this one in features.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    When I looked many years ago there was nothing within Facebook that offered a forum half as solid as say this one in features.
    I see.

    Yeah, it's a very different platform in style and function. Rather than being able to revisit topics and dip back and forth, they kind of come and go. It's a far more fleeting environment than a forum like this where you can delve back into old topics, or revisit things intermittently.

    Can you even set up the ability to have pseudonyms instead of real names (so folks would know who was who RE: HPOTD?).

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    This site will always be legendary. Appreciate having it up throughout the years. Even though I didn’t post as much, always enjoyed the banter and debates about my favorite zombie flicks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Just to set expectations - As it stands, this site will probably end in about 1yr. The hosting prices increased dramatically when I paid them this time last year, to the extent I don't feel I just justify them going forwards. So according to my diary, in about year....

    Just had to pay the annual backup service bill which only adds to the costs...
    But where else can I read debates about which happens first, the events of Day or Land?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaldoTheKid View Post
    But where else can I read debates about which happens first, the events of Day or Land?
    Well, you may find out in about 11 months...
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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