Is anyone interested?
Doonhammer commented on my last post.
“I am grateful that you continue to run the Martin S site especially considering your present troubles.”
I will start by saying I am happy [and proud] to be running both Martin Scriblerus and Anna Raccoon. I have the server space and the only cost to me are the two domain names. That cost is less than I would spend on a few pints, but seeing as I don’t drink many pints these days I’m not worried.
However Doonhammer refers to my “troubles” and that brings me to the point of this scribble.
My current foray with cancer has tended to set me pondering my mortality. They say that my particular cancer is not necessarily a death sentence and in practice has an excellent survival rate. I have every intention of beating it and so far there has been little to concern me. However if the cancer doesn’t get me then possibly age or Putin will and that has focused my mind somewhat.
What happens to Martin Scriblerus and Anna Raccoon when I finally go to the Great Smoking Room in the Sky? The answer is simple – unless my hosting bills are paid in my absence they will both vanish, and as I discovered with Anna Raccoon, would be extremely difficult to resurrect.
I hasten to add that I have no intention of disappearing just yet, but I would be happier if someone maybe healthier and younger took on the mantle of hosting both sites.
The proposal is very simple. You [or someone else] opens an account with the company I’m with [to make things a whole lot easier] and pays the account every year. That’s all. It would cost at current rates less than €135 [around £112] a year, and that includes both hosting and domain renewal.
What would it involve then? Well, nothing. I would transfer the sites and continue to maintain them and do the techy stuff. In fact I would possibly set the sites to auto-update so they would happily run forever once the bills are paid.
Thoughts anyone?
I would but you need a young ‘un. Actually more than one, just in case – ‘heir and a spare.’
With RN on this – Would Daughter be willing if some of us subscribed somehow to cover the costs?
I’m even older than Grandad so I’m not an ideal candidate to take over, but I’d be willing to chip in.
Sadly daughter shows little or no interest. i would be loath to involve her anyway as she has enough on her plate.
the idea of “chipping in” is fine but we would still need one central bank account, and people tend to forget chipping in after the first year.
I did receive a mail volunteering which is great, and I would suggest putting up a “donate” button to his account. There is one [to my account] on Anna Raccoon and I think I received one donation over the years!
Particularly for Anna Raccoon is it worth having a backup that a few people could hold and redirect the site of it goes. Proper wp backup not webreaper type
Could be with the same for scribrus but that is more dynamic.
Paul
I am more than happy to provide backups to anyone who wants them. I avoid all the web based services and generate two backups directly from the site – one is a compressed file of the database and the other a compressed file of the site files. It does require a little bit of tech know how to restore them on another server though. You would need to be familiar with WordPress installs, FTP and database setup.
I would put those backups online but they would be an open invitation to hackers.
In other circumstances I would be delighted to help out but I have just given up running a few club/charity sites due to age and health uncertainties. Not in your league of hospital treatments but have had a year of hospital appointments, scans, cameras, pokes, prods and minor op trying to sort out low blood cell count, now waiting for a date for a heart by-pass op assuming the anemia is under control, not looking forward to that one!
Yes, brilliant thing, Grandad.
Happy to do it. And I’m already running a few servers so this would be a drop in the ocean.
It would be an honor.
Planning to upgrade in December. So drop me an Email and we’ll sort something out.