ATTN: SCS Members

[burntire]

And for those of you who don't know I put this site back together in 2006 when the server plug got pulled on Lou with no backup.
Then a few years later Lou was given a few days notice that he was losing space on the old modular fords server. I moved the site to my old server keeping the lights on until Mike took over two years ago.

[PaxtonShelby]

I didn't know that Jeff. Sending you a very late "Thank you!"

[Wolfpack Speed]

I didn't know that Jeff. Sending you a very late "Thank you!"

Jeff is a good dude, he did a good job and helped me out a bunch! He also knows what the fastest color is!

[somethingclever]

Sounds like it would be a good idea to knock down the server to keep costs such that the site could be fully or partially group funded.

[PaxtonShelby]

Jeff took me for my first ride in a Fox-5.0. Sideways on the 1-2 and 2-3 shifts...good time!!! The rest is history!! Another late "Thanks!!" Jeff!

[AdamantiumSilvr]

I really hope we all can come together and keep this forum alive!! It along with FB and youtube are really some of the only sites I go on. I'm down to donate some loot too! I have met n made some great friends on here and purchased ALOT of my Stangs parts from here!
My full name is Brent Bubash on Facebook so whoever wants to, can friend me. I am a Admin/Co-Founder of Allsquad a Secret group that my one great friend helped start up for the heck of it. He didn't care if it was me, my dad, uncle and him when we first started it. Now we've grown and also have a Open ALLSQUAD Classifieds group to keep For Sale and Trade stuff off the Main wall. We also just recently had a member start up a Allsquad Erie Chapter too. Again hopefully we all can keep in touch and keep the local and International underground forum Car Scene alive and thrivin!!

[Stangman701]

$1620.00 per year. Seriously?
I admin a vbulletin site with over 1400 members and over 600 users login per day and we do not pay anywhere near that with servint.
This site does not have the traffic to justify the Ultimate VPS cost. This site will run fine on the $55 plan as long as the server is optimized for vbulletin.
Downgrade the server and I will gladly help get it optimized.

So if this is true it sounds like we've got enough people to keep this thing afloat for at least another year. At $55/month we'd only need $660/year. At last count in this thread we had 23 people willing to donate at least $25. You can add me and a couple more to the list and we'd have the $660 we need. What can we do to make this happen in the next few weeks?

I'm similar to what a lot of people in this thread stated, I get on the site almost every day, and usually multiple times per day during the week but I don't post all that much. I'd really hate to see it go and I'd be willing to help however I can to keep it around

[PaxtonShelby]

If we're able to keep things afloat in the short term by a few of us kicking in a little $, how about giving this a shot... We have 1400+ "members". If 25% of them are remotely active that's about 350 members. At $5 a year that's more than enough to keep things going. Even if only 10% of the 1400 stick around that's enough to cover the downgraded hosting fee. New folks could get a 30 day trial for free and then join for the $5 per year. Just brainstorming here. I know it is easy for me to sit back and throw out ideas...I don't know how it all works behind the scenes. Just trying to help. Seems like several of us are willing to contribute to keep things afloat in the short term...so it stands to reason that many more would be willing to pay a very small membership fee.

Let's keep the dialogue going here guys - it can't hurt!

[John4cam]

4 guys said 50 bux. so we should be very close.....

[2000GT]

Put me down for 50

[1320goat]

I've already donated to the site. I'm sure a few others have as well. If you guys figure out a plan I may donate again, but at the moment I'm pretty neutral on the situation.

Sent from my HTC One_M8

[burntire]

Jeff took me for my first ride in a Fox-5.0. Sideways on the 1-2 and 2-3 shifts...good time!!! The rest is history!! Another late "Thanks!!" Jeff!

Are you saying I was burning tire?

[burntire]

Jeff is a good dude, he did a good job and helped me out a bunch! He also knows what the fastest color is!

Just keep the site and downgrade the server. There are donation scripts that can change usergroups to something like SCS Supporter etc. Looks like you have the donations to keep the lights on.

[Dan B.]

Just a thought.............maybe Mike wants out of the website business. I modded for a long time on a very active message board and it just got to be a bother. Maybe it's for sale because he does not want to own it anymore, regardless of its cost.

Again.............just a thought.

[Wolfpack Speed]

Just a thought.............maybe Mike wants out of the website business. I modded for a long time on a very active message board and it just got to be a bother. Maybe it's for sale because he does not want to own it anymore, regardless of its cost.

Again.............just a thought.

You are 100% correct! Bingo, we have a winner!!!!

Sorry, don't have time to elaborate or comment on the other posts right now....

[Slow01GT]

Yeah I assumed that was made clear many pages ago

[95V6]

We just need someone who is able to take over. I think there is enough guys with money in here that could take care of the cost. I'd be willing to go up to $100 if others match that.

[burntire]

We just need someone who is able to take over. I think there is enough guys with money in here that could take care of the cost. I'd be willing to go up to $100 if others match that.

No Mike has the site for sale. Not sure what the price is?

[95V6]

Yes, he sells the site. We take over financially but someone or others need to run it. I know nothing about running a forum. I'd just be a silent investor. lol

[no1sirbutler]

Price I saw posted here was $2500. And after reading this, I'm guessing that no sponsors signed up again the SCS account is empty......if that is true I don't see this site being worth the asking price