I just received our monthly bill for hosting of the site and forums, and we hit a new record, $393.20.
We had a huge overage on bandwidth usage which I'm going to take a look at. That's not such a bad thing though - hopefully it just means that lots of people are visiting and making good use of the site.
However, the other large overage area was the number of old stored posts. Yes, we pay extra not only for total disk/storage space used, but for the total number of posts stored.
I don't want to delete a lot of the old PUBLIC threads and posts because members and visitors do go back and read those and learn from them. But if you have some old Private Message threads that aren't needed, you can help out by deleting those.
How?
In the row of green buttons above, click on Go, then select Personal Zone, then Private Messaging. On the screen listing all of your PM threads, click the little box to the left of a thread you want to delete. Then click the Delete button at the bottom of that page. Of course you could copy the thread into a Word doc on your own computer first if you think you might want to refer back to it.
I will be looking at how we can reduce the cost a bit by possibly switching to a different price plan offered by our current host, but you can help immediately just by deleting some of those old Private Message threads.
Thanks!
Julie
