Bloggers,
You may have noticed some missing portions of pages, not pages at all, or other problems on our blogs over the past few days. The problem has arrisen due to the limited space we have available.
Currently, we have 150 mb of space. As the number of bloggers have grown and the size of their blogs have grown, the space we have has gotten rather full.
This morning, in order to fix the disappearing content problem, I upped Ben's Friends capacity to 200 mb. Please continue to be thrifty with the amount and size of photos you upload (those are the general culprit). I know MT makes it wonderfully easy to upload any size photo, but the larger the photo the more space it takes up.
In a larger effort to remedy this situation, I would like to offer two solutions.
The first, is donations. Ben's Friends runs on BigBlueHat's servers and consequently takes up space that would otherwise be used for clients. Many of you have expressed a willingness to help curb the cost of the server space and time that goes into making Ben's Friends the best little blogging community we know. ;) If you are interested (please don't feel obligated), we will be taking donations in the near future. I will post more information once we have the PayPal account setup.
The second, is a file manager. There is one now that's in use by a very few people. If you upload lots of pictures and have wanted to remove old ones, or accidental ones but not known how, the file manager should solve your problems.
Because of the time it takes to set up File Manager accounts I won't be able to set everyone up all at once. I'll need you to comment on this post to let me know you're interested in getting access. Once setup you'll be able to add, delete, and move files within your blog directory. Please be adviced that moving, deleting, or renaming files will likely break your MT post that references that file. Be sure to keep that in mind when making changes.
I want to keep Ben's Friends free for those who are of the same mind and who are interested in getting started in blogging. BBH will be offering full fledged blogging services in the future for those in need of something larger.
Thank you for being understanding and patient with our limitations. We hope that we can continue to improve Ben's Friends to provide the best possible blogging community for our users.
P.S.: Another thing to ponder, if we could raise enough money through donations, we might consider (as a group) the possibility of purchasing the $99.95 Unlimited Personal Edition of MT 3.1. We could upgrade from our existing platform, have more features, and keep the community running smoothly. It's not a must, but something to consider. Thanks for your time.
Posted by TheIdeaMan at September 14, 2004 08:18 AM | TrackBack