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CHC Website
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:13 pm
by Domino
The CHC Website and forum was set to be shut down Effective November 10, 2014. Do to significant interest in keeping things going, that has been delayed to provide an opportinuty for new Management
At this point in time there is no paying sponsors and no funding to maintain the site hosting and software support.
The cost of hosting the forum is not high, about $600USD per year. There are some additional licensing and support costs. Say its $1000 all in to provide an idea of the costs.
If there is any interest in maintaining the forum, please contact me as soon as possible.
email:
Domino@ontarioconditions.com
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:04 pm
by Autumn Walker
Domino - highly interested in maintaining.
I will shoot out an email.
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:47 pm
by Khamul
Thanks for posting in the Public section as we discussed.
I would like to put forth the amount of $250 and have my company Logo up..... can we get three more?
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:36 am
by GreenMeanie
Nov 10 2015?? That is over a year away or did you mean 2014??
It was to be expected i suppose. There has been little activity here in recent years. I drop in once a week to see whats going on and not much interest overall from what i can see. A week can go by with no new threads and months if your an H1 guy. The group is so spread out geographicly that even small meets are expensive and hard to co ordinate.
I think it takes a hell of a commitment to keep a site like this going with such a small number of active members and costing what it does. I had no idea it cost that much to run this site.
Given the cost,,,
I say just make a new smaller reflective forum and get all the active members emails signed up and get a webs account for under 100 bucks a year. I run my two sites for even less. As it stands there are well less than 100 active members so its not a huge database. The CHC had a lot of sign ups but most are no longer active and most have sold, moved on, perhaps lost interest. These days i run into more CHC members on Facebook. Perhaps a Facebook group page could provide a meeting place and a worthy consideration being free and much higher visibility overall. A You tube account to upload relevant media which most of us have already and best of all a user run page that costs nothing.
Anyway just a thought whatever its worth.
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:47 am
by ROADBLOK
Nov 10 2015?? That is over a year away or did you mean 2014??
It was to be expected i suppose. There has been little activity here in recent years. I drop in once a week to see whats going on and not much interest overall from what i can see. A week can go by with no new threads and months if your an H1 guy. The group is so spread out geographicly that even small meets are expensive and hard to co ordinate.
I think it takes a hell of a commitment to keep a site like this going with such a small number of active members and costing what it does. I had no idea it cost that much to run this site.
Given the cost,,,
I say just make a new smaller reflective forum and get all the active members emails signed up and get a webs account for under 100 bucks a year. I run my two sites for even less. As it stands there are well less than 100 active members so its not a huge database. The CHC had a lot of sign ups but most are no longer active and most have sold, moved on, perhaps lost interest. These days i run into more CHC members on Facebook. Perhaps a Facebook group page could provide a meeting place and a worthy consideration being free and much higher visibility overall. A You tube account to upload relevant media which most of us have already and best of all a user run page that costs nothing.
Anyway just a thought whatever its worth.
It doesn't help that the forum president has pretty much up and disappeared! He hasn't been around forever. I know that from the grapevine that he has been busy like the rest of us, but come on! How hard is it come on and post a local meetup to get everyone to come out and see each other? Before you say that anyone can, which is true, it's his site, if he wants traffic and activity, he needs to have a proactive role.
As for the cost of the site... Why not use a forum like proboards? They are free and great. I run two forums on there and have no complaints about it. There is support staff for any kind of help you would need.
Derek, if you ever come on this site... YOU HAVE A PM!
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:30 am
by Autumn Walker
Awaiting response to email...
I run my own web hosting business and I run other Invision Power Boards - if we can get a couple members to kick in some sponsorship for licensing costs I will throw in the domain / server costs. We can easily keep this board alive from a technology perspective.
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:23 pm
by ROADBLOK
Problem is we need the members and to be active, and as of last year, they haven't been. I myself am guilty of not being here. There is no one talking or no events taking place to peak my interest. It's sad! I like the people I've come to get to know from this site.
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 2:25 pm
by Autumn Walker
[quote="ROADBLOK"]
Problem is we need the members and to be active, and as of last year, they haven't been. I myself am guilty of not being here. There is no one talking or no events taking place to peak my interest. It's sad! I like the people I've come to get to know from this site.
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Truth - step 1 is keeping the board alive though.
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:28 pm
by whitehumh2
I had been away. My dad was sick and just passed away and many things have changed legally in Québec regarding trails but I was going to start posting stuff like crazy this weekend!
How much to do the Pro Boards???
I am sure we can kick start this site again!
Re: CHC Website
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:54 pm
by Khamul
I had been away. My dad was sick and just passed away and many things have changed legally in Québec regarding trails but I was going to start posting stuff like crazy this weekend!
How much to do the Pro Boards???
I am sure we can kick start this site again!
Sorry to hear Bro.... Nothing but love from outwest!