Received Ann email yesterday morning that IXWebhosting is shutting down effective 28 August. We have to move the entire eangus site/system to another server. This is not something that our developer believes will be too difficult, but it will require time and the longer we wait to start, the less time left before the 28th for testing, copying, etc. so, we need to discuss and decide on Saturday and get our developer started. This will affect every state and every thing, so we can’t afford to wait on a decision. Here are the details:

We currently spend $650-ish per month for the current Webhosting space. Our developer says he can get us into a better and faster server with a reputable company that he has other clients on, for about $450-ish per month. Further, he can do most of it, and perhaps all of it, just using the hours that we are already paying him for. But, you never know, so I recommend that the finance committee set aside some additional funds just in case in this years budget. I think $10,000 is plenty enough, and we only use it if absolutely necessary.

Lastly, while we are making this move, I recommend that we get the entire system converted away from the LANGEA.org main domain, and make EANGUS.org or something else like that to replace it. If we are ever going to make that move, now would be the time. So, sorry for the last minute news, but out of our control. I’ll have a one page proposal from Aaron on Friday for the finance committee and the EC to look over, but it’s a lot of technical stuff that Chuck Kasin won’t understand anyway......bam.

We have to make the move, regardless. We will tell the developer to make extra sure that states taking registrations on the sites are given extra attention so as to not affect their conferences.