Re: [SilverStreak] Website and mailing lists update

["Cristi Cave" <chaya7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, I use the SDF public access UNIX system for my website. The 
cost is very low, but it is not terribly user-friendly. Still, there are help 
pages and bboards to ask for help, and even a non-computer person 
like me was able to publish a website on their servers. You may (or may not) find it useful for your purposes. 
http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi 
Cristi 

----- Original Message ----- 
> Well folks, 
> 
> Here is the latest on the website and the mailing lists. There are 
> two mailing lists involved. The Vintage Airstream list, and the 
> Silver Streak list. 
> 
> The website transferred over to GoDaddy without incident. It is 
> working well, although there are probably errors that I haven't found 
> yet. They should be minor. 
> 
> The mailing list transfer did not work well. I transferred them to 
> GoDaddy as well, but found that GoDaddy has a limit of 1,000 relays 
> per day for a hosted website such as mine. The two lists together 
> have almost 800 members. Therefore, if a one mailing is sent to each 
> person on the two lists, that will count as 800 relays. The 1,000 
> limit was reached within minutes of getting the site transferred. 
> That is why the e-mails cut off on June 24th. 
> 
> To resolve this problem, I moved the mailserver back to the old 
> server, and complained to GoDaddy. There is about a month and a half 
> left of my contract on the old server. 
> 
> GoDaddy came back to me, and upped the limit to 8,000 per day. I 
> advised them that while this limit might work on some days, it would 
> not on others, and asked for a limit of at least 20,000 daily relays. 
> GoDaddy declined to give me this requested amount. They told me to 
> work with the 8,000 and if no-one complained about me being a spammer, 
> they might consider upping the limit in the future. 
> 
> I advised them that this did not resolve my problem, and left me with 
> no option but to look for another hosting company that would not have 
> this kind of limit on relays. 
> 
> So, for now, the website will continue to stay on GoDaddy. The 
> mailserver will continue to work on the old server. All will continue 
> working just as it does right now. 
> 
> Meanwhile, I will be looking for another hosting company and server. 
> The old hosting company did not have any limit on the number of 
> relays, and I have found others that do not as well. Unfortunately, 
> this means that another transfer of the site will be in the works in 
> the future. 
> 
> If you have any questions, please contact me off-list. 
> 
> -Tom 
>