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admin · 01-02-2013, 10:45 AM

It's been a few years since we've upgraded our server, but the reason YorkieTalk has been having some issues the past few days is we've outgrown our current server again!

With over 100,000 members, 4 million posts, over 370,000 photos, the server has to handle a lot in order to make YorkieTalk work.

We are accepting donations for our new server, or if you just want to donate to YorkieTalk.

Here is more information on donating:

DONATIONS - Support YorkieTalk Today! - YorkieTalk.com Forums - Yorkshire Terrier Community

To send a donation or payment via credit card, we can only take that through Paypal. You can sign up for a free Paypal account at www.paypal.com

Then click on the Send Money tab after you have logged into your Paypal account and send money to donations@yorkietalk.com to make your donation. Please remember to let us know via PM or in the Paypal remarks what your YorkieTalk username is. We will process your payment within 48 hours, usually sooner.

Thank you very much for your kind support! We appreciate it! Without donations, YorkieTalk would not be alive today!

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The new server will be approximately $3000 for what we anticipate will hold us for the next two years. YorkieTalk overall will be a lot faster and easier to use as well. We've already gone through four server upgrades, we're just amazed that we continue to grow so fast. We thank you for that!

This is where we are asking you for help. Donations will help us greatly. If you feel YorkieTalk is a useful resource and can spare a few bucks, we would appreciate it greatly. You can send donations via Paypal to donations@yorkietalk.com or you can PM us for the mailing address to send a check or money order. The ads and donations we currently receive would not be enough to handle the bandwidth costs and server costs, too.

We'd also like to sincerely thank each and every person who has donated to YorkieTalk in the past, as you are the reason that YT is alive. It would be impossible to pay for costs for a community this large without your help!

If we don't get a new server, we may have to limit certain functions on YorkieTalk, such as search, picture attachments, and the Photo Gallery. We've had to remove a few boxes from the main YT page because of this server issue. Any restrictions would be a last resort, and we hope we don't have to do that, but we may have to to be able to serve all Yorkie owners without the server crashing.

Your contributions have helped thousands and thousands of Yorkie owners since 2004 (almost nine years now), and we hope we can continue to be able to be your Yorkshire Terrier community. Thank you for reading this.

01-02-2013, 10:45 AM	#1
admin *Administrator* Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: USA Posts: 3,246 Blog Entries: 3	YorkieTalk Needs a New Server! It's been a few years since we've upgraded our server, but the reason YorkieTalk has been having some issues the past few days is we've outgrown our current server again! With over 100,000 members, 4 million posts, over 370,000 photos, the server has to handle a lot in order to make YorkieTalk work. We are accepting donations for our new server, or if you just want to donate to YorkieTalk. Here is more information on donating: DONATIONS - Support YorkieTalk Today! - YorkieTalk.com Forums - Yorkshire Terrier Community To send a donation or payment via credit card, we can only take that through Paypal. You can sign up for a free Paypal account at www.paypal.com Then click on the Send Money tab after you have logged into your Paypal account and send money to donations@yorkietalk.com to make your donation. Please remember to let us know via PM or in the Paypal remarks what your YorkieTalk username is. We will process your payment within 48 hours, usually sooner. Thank you very much for your kind support! We appreciate it! Without donations, YorkieTalk would not be alive today! --- (ADDENDUM) The new server will be approximately $3000 for what we anticipate will hold us for the next two years. YorkieTalk overall will be a lot faster and easier to use as well. We've already gone through four server upgrades, we're just amazed that we continue to grow so fast. We thank you for that! This is where we are asking you for help. Donations will help us greatly. If you feel YorkieTalk is a useful resource and can spare a few bucks, we would appreciate it greatly. You can send donations via Paypal to donations@yorkietalk.com or you can PM us for the mailing address to send a check or money order. The ads and donations we currently receive would not be enough to handle the bandwidth costs and server costs, too. We'd also like to sincerely thank each and every person who has donated to YorkieTalk in the past, as you are the reason that YT is alive. It would be impossible to pay for costs for a community this large without your help! If we don't get a new server, we may have to limit certain functions on YorkieTalk, such as search, picture attachments, and the Photo Gallery. We've had to remove a few boxes from the main YT page because of this server issue. Any restrictions would be a last resort, and we hope we don't have to do that, but we may have to to be able to serve all Yorkie owners without the server crashing. Your contributions have helped thousands and thousands of Yorkie owners since 2004 (almost nine years now), and we hope we can continue to be able to be your Yorkshire Terrier community. Thank you for reading this. Last edited by admin; 01-02-2013 at 01:44 PM.