Short outages over the next two months as I prepare for migration an upgrade.
 

This site is hosted on a 7 year old box, using 14 year old software on a 22 year old internet connection, only .3meg a second out DSL :( . All of which is in my home. Literally after six years of trying to upgrade and move us (we kept losing our polls when I tried to upgrade), I think the latest version of the upgrade software finally has a path to move to a real web server.

I may lock posts, or shut down both with and without a landing page (without meaning no response), for up to a couple of hours. Don't worry the site is just moving onto something that will be faster, more mobile friendly, have better spam filters, and no matter how good I have been at uptime, it will be more robust.

Thank you all for your patience.

Onward and upward.

Kato

Thank you for the update, Kato, and for keeping this place going.

- C.

I appreciate the work you put into this site. Thank you

Magnificent, Kato. If there are costs involved I would gladly donate funds.

A migration will actually drop costs significantly (due to the very high costs of maintaining my duplicate internet connection which allows hosting). In addition to being the smart thing from a usability/reliability/stability point of view, this has made financial sense for a decade, but the migration has always been time consuming and, until the latest upgrade version, flawed in terms of its execution (lost data).

I might try to look into something where the relatively small monthly(/yearly) website payments can be continued by crowdfunding even if I pass away (no worries, it is just none of us are getting younger), but it is probably just easier for me to get a family member to do it.