TPR Needs Funds

[robin_hoods]

Hi all its that time of the year when I ask for donations to keep TPR going for another year .
This is the state of play trainzproroutes.org is set to expire on Saturday Nov 28th, 2015
We need approx 160$ dollars to keep going for anther year.
Please go to http://www.trainzproroutes.org/ and scroll down to where it says Donations and at the bottom click onto Make a Donation.
Thanks in advance to any one who can help

 

[torino72]

Sent you $25 via PayPal scheduled to pay (according to PayPal) on Oct 28th. Thanks for keeping the site up and running.

 

[DELETED-aYx9Q4SYwhiI2h6]

I have done the same thing ($20) because this site is a good source of NG items and some routes and needs to be kept alive.

Dave

 

[mikeaust]

Sent my yearly donation,
good luck and thanks for being there,
cheers,
Mie

 

[robin_hoods]

Sent my yearly donation,
good luck and thanks for being there,
cheers,
Mie

Just to let you now I am waiting till the end of the month to see if we have enough funds to carry on for another year.
Thanks to those who have already donated but we do need a few more donations

 

[amigacooke]

I see that TPR has 26 listed members. Are they no longer interested in keeping their own site going?

 

[cascaderailroad]

We will keep your float a boatin' ... er' I mean: your boat a floatin' !

 

[VinnyBarb]

Just chipped in with $25.00 to help out. I hope others will too.

VinnyBarb

 

[pdkoester]

what is the size of all the storage used on the content? that might be cheaper or free, depending on how much is needed.

 

[RRSignal]

I contributed $25. I just noticed that http://trainzproroutes.com/ is expired. I've usually used the .org but I was wondering if this is something you had planned to keep or renew.

 

[johnwhelan]

what is the size of all the storage used on the content? that might be cheaper or free, depending on how much is needed.

The 1and1 web sites offer unlimited storage and there are a number of us who have one so just adding on the TPR content could be done by a number of people at no additional cost. I think the question is more transferring the domain name and the way the site was built. What is interesting is that SSL ie HTTPS is now offered for $15 a month together with unlimited etc etc.

Cheerio John

 

[robin_hoods]

I contributed $25. I just noticed that http://trainzproroutes.com/ is expired. I've usually used the .org but I was wondering if this is something you had planned to keep or renew.

Re http://trainzproroutes.com/ is expired.
Yes that is correct we had to close that down owing to lack of use and cost of running it.
The Download depot and Forum are still running.

 

[robin_hoods]

The 1and1 web sites offer unlimited storage and there are a number of us who have one so just adding on the TPR content could be done by a number of people at no additional cost. I think the question is more transferring the domain name and the way the site was built. What is interesting is that SSL ie HTTPS is now offered for $15 a month together with unlimited etc etc.

Cheerio John

Since I only look after the TPR Depot I cant tell you the size of the size of the Web site including the Depot
i would say that I dont think it would be possible to transfer all the content over to another site owing to the size of the content on the Depot.
I will pass your info about unlimited storage to Michael Hurst (aka) Meridious who does run the site

 

[robin_hoods]

The 1and1 web sites offer unlimited storage and there are a number of us who have one so just adding on the TPR content could be done by a number of people at no additional cost. I think the question is more transferring the domain name and the way the site was built. What is interesting is that SSL ie HTTPS is now offered for $15 a month together with unlimited etc etc.

Cheerio John

Just got my calculator out and found that 15$ a month would come to 180$ per year which is more that we are currently paying

 

[johnwhelan]

Just got my calculator out and found that 15$ a month would come to 180$ per year which is more that we are currently paying

I'm currently paying $5 a month for unlimited bandwidth and storage by paying for three years at a time, the full rate is $9 a month, HTTPS is just sort of interesting as until recently it has been an additional $10-$15 a month just for HTTPS, Google and some others have been pushing HTTPS for some time as a way to make the web a little more secure.

Personally I suspect that the hassle of moving the web site would be too high to consider changing.
Cheerio John

 

[JCitron]

Hi robin_hoods,

I just sent over some dough.

I think that should nearly cover the annual bill.

Regards,

John

 

[robin_hoods]

Hi All I can now announce that we now have enough funds to continue for another year.
I would like to say a big thank you to all those who contributed donations to TPR

 

[captainkman]

Hi robin_hoods,

I am glad to hear that the excellent resource that is TPR can be kept running for another year. I am sorry that I could not donate this year, but hopefully I can contribute next year.

Hopefully I'll stop spending so much of my money on model trains by then. :hehe:

Kieran.

 

[RRSignal]

Sweet! TPR is a very valuable resource and well worth the donations.

 

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