Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:43:09 10/06/98
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On October 06, 1998 at 20:47:05, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On October 06, 1998 at 18:46:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On October 06, 1998 at 14:25:51, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>>Starting shortly, we will archive all posts over >>>one week old (down from 3 weeks), >> >>This is no big deal. >> >>> and we will have to >>>put the default setting for messages back to 12 hours >>>(from 36 hours). It is sort of good news and bad news. >> >>This is awful. You force people to read the board more than twice a day unless >>they want to risk missing something. >> >>bruce > >What would be more awful is the closing of CCC altogether. > >At 11:13 this morning our ISP shut down the our site for about >15 minutes because it was using 90% of the server's CPU capacity. >This is way over what we had contracted for. > >With the CCC (and Your Move sites) continuing to grow geometrically, >in both hits and new members, we have to take some measures to ensure >that the growth stays within the confines of the monetary budget >that we have set for it. > >When the Computer Chess Reports was by subscription ($25 per year), >all of these additional costs could be met, but now that we have >made the decision to offer the CCC and CCR and Resource Center for >free to the public, we must create some limits. And what you see in >the Resource Center now is just the very beginning of what is >planned. > >Something had to give now. We tried the most innocuous solution. >I fear that the seams will swell again in the near future because >CCC is getting record numbers of new members and our "newbies" >forum has not even begun yet, not to mention the other sections >that are currently being worked on by Fernando and our staff. > >- Steve (ICD/Your Move) ICD/Your Move has been a great service to us all, but are you sure there is no way to convince another server to handle us? James
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