Let my website expire?

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Greg S
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Let my website expire?

#1 Post by Greg S » Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:40 am

www.vanislelandrovernetwork.com

This has been around for about 24 years and used to be hosted by an internet service provider for an annual cost of $0.00.
The domain name was about five bucks a year and photo posting was free. All that has changed now so it is now about $200.00 a year to keep the site running. All this is expiring in the next few days.
Do I just keep paying? Or should I let it disappear forever?
All editorial content is my own writing and there is no commercial advertising to support it.

Let it go? Or keep bleeding? Does anyone look at websites anymore? I see the forum here is pretty inactive.

Greg Sutfin
Duncan BC
vanislelandrover.com

StuartC
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Re: Let my website expire?

#2 Post by StuartC » Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:51 am

Greg
Inactive forum....let it go.
Seems too be more interest in using Rover-Landers of BC on FB Groups.
Stuart

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Re: Let my website expire?

#3 Post by bsa_m21 » Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:01 am

$200 per year is ridiculous. We (the club) are paying less than that for our site and forum.
If you want to keep it, I suggest you look at a new provider to host it. Most will give you preferential pricing to move to their platforms.

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Re: Let my website expire?

#4 Post by island dormy » Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:38 am

Howdy Greg

It was a great site way back when for us Island rover owners, thanks for doing it all these years. It will be a shame to lose all the old photos.
But Id let it go, these days there are just too many options of ways to communicate on the same subject which unfortunately dilutes the content on all of them, you cant join them all. Take this forum for example, it is very very slow on here maybe everybody's on facetime. I rarely check it anymore.

Talk soon Victor

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Re: Let my website expire?

#5 Post by harv » Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:50 am

It is a little slow, but it’s the best forum for all local information concerning LR’s. I still check it very regularly.

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Re: Let my website expire?

#6 Post by RobinS » Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:48 am

I don't do facebook so I also check this forum quite often. I agree not a lot of action here lately but that could all change when someone finds a wonderful old series in a field somewhere

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Re: Let my website expire?

#7 Post by franko » Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:40 pm

Sucks, but I agree best to let it go. Hope all is well Greg.

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