Status Update
Sorry for the long silence. Things have been slow going due to:
1. RL; and
2. the fact that the hosting company's in Denmark, Jean's in UK, and I'm in Australia and all emails from the hosting company is in Danish, which means Jean has had to translate and get back to me about it as due to RL situation, she does not have a lot of time to deal with the website issues.*
Anyway, long story short. The annual invoice they sent out went missing from our (the admins') email and none of us got it. This means the site wasn't paid for and they suspended it. We have the money, which some of you have kindly donated, sitting in a paypal account, now it's just paying it.
I'm right now in the middle of sorting through it, and once again, it's slow since Danish is not a language that I remotely understand and I have to get stuff translated and make sure I'm clicking the right buttons for payment. I'm hoping that they haven't cleaned out their server memory and the site's still stored on it so once payment's gone through, it'll be back up.
* This is also the reason why we have been looking for someone for the last 2-3 years to take over the day to day running of the site. Since we finished university and started working, neither Jean nor I have the time and/or energy to be dealing with the site. Right now, it's almost 11pm my time and I'd rather be in bed. I only got home from work at 8pm after spending almost 11 hours at the office, and to be completely honest, this is the last thing I want to be dealing with, but it has to be done.
While the site practically runs itself most days, we need someone on board who's able to answer questions from fellow members and deal with the general administrative side of things like paying for the hosting and make sure the site stays up etc. You don't need HTML or a lot of computer/technical skills for it, just the time and desire to help keep the site up. So please, someone, anyone, let me know if you can help. Just reply to this entry.
1. RL; and
2. the fact that the hosting company's in Denmark, Jean's in UK, and I'm in Australia and all emails from the hosting company is in Danish, which means Jean has had to translate and get back to me about it as due to RL situation, she does not have a lot of time to deal with the website issues.*
Anyway, long story short. The annual invoice they sent out went missing from our (the admins') email and none of us got it. This means the site wasn't paid for and they suspended it. We have the money, which some of you have kindly donated, sitting in a paypal account, now it's just paying it.
I'm right now in the middle of sorting through it, and once again, it's slow since Danish is not a language that I remotely understand and I have to get stuff translated and make sure I'm clicking the right buttons for payment. I'm hoping that they haven't cleaned out their server memory and the site's still stored on it so once payment's gone through, it'll be back up.
* This is also the reason why we have been looking for someone for the last 2-3 years to take over the day to day running of the site. Since we finished university and started working, neither Jean nor I have the time and/or energy to be dealing with the site. Right now, it's almost 11pm my time and I'd rather be in bed. I only got home from work at 8pm after spending almost 11 hours at the office, and to be completely honest, this is the last thing I want to be dealing with, but it has to be done.
While the site practically runs itself most days, we need someone on board who's able to answer questions from fellow members and deal with the general administrative side of things like paying for the hosting and make sure the site stays up etc. You don't need HTML or a lot of computer/technical skills for it, just the time and desire to help keep the site up. So please, someone, anyone, let me know if you can help. Just reply to this entry.