Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2017, 01:08:05 PM
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SRGC Website - major update work in progress
Fred Admin is engaged in major update work on the SRGC websites - this includes a server change. While this work continues, which may take some time to complete, given the complexities and size of our sites, there may be periods when parts of the site and the forum may be offline and so inaccessible. The work being done will bring the Club's server right up to date and will we hope, mean that the whole resource we curate here will be safeguarded for some considerable time before another major update is required. It is the nature of the internet that ongoing work is required to keep up with changes and security needs and so on.
We would ask you for your understanding during this time.
Kind regards,
SRGC WebTeam
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Scottish Rock Garden Club
Do you regularly read the Forum , the Bulb Log or the International Rock Gardener ?
Do you really enjoy visiting the Forum and have registered to enable you to take part? Do you just come here as a happy "Lurker" to read and enjoy the Forum?
Here is a request to those of you reading this who are not fully paid up members of the Scottish Rock Garden Club, but who nevertheless are able to search these pages and benefit from them:
Please seriously consider joining the SRGC.... it is easily achieved online, see here: http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/join-renew (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/join-renew)
As part of the remit of the SRGC to encourage the interest in and knowledge of rock garden plants, the website and forum is (with the exception of a tiny area only for registered forum members) open to all to read, enjoy, register and contribute to the Forum.
Provision of this facility does not happen by magic, however: it takes effort, and, as with most things, certain amounts of cold hard cash! While the costs of hosting the website and forum, (the payments for bandwidth and so on) are minuscule in comparison to the costs of producing the Journal (and capable of reaching far larger numbers, it must be said) they are still costs which must be met by the SRGC.
All of the work of the SRGC is done by volunteers, of course.
I would like to urge all of you who appreciate this website and Forum to give thought to how, very simply, you might easily help to support its future.... Join the SRGC.... you will not only have the satisfaction of knowing you are contributing to the upkeep of this place, but also you will receive the super twice yearly journal, be eligible to take part in the seed exchange, have free entry to all SRGC Shows, the chance to become a member of a local Group for those of you in the UK
.....goodness me.... how could you resist?
Or, as an alternative:
The sharp eyed amongst you will have noticed a new banner at the foot of each Forum Page
This enables anyone to make a donation to the Scottish Rock Garden Club, via PayPal.
We know that many folks who are not members of the SRGC do find the Forum very useful, in so many ways and this is a simple way for them to make a gift of money to the Club in appreciation of information the Club and the Forum has provided. Or you may just feel the SRGC website and Forum are an integral part of your gardening life and want to show your thanks
For whatever reason, we hope the addition of this facility will prove useful to those of you who have asked how you might easily make a contribution to Club Funds in thanks for 'services rendered' !
The PayPal system is secure, none of your card details are passed to the Club.
You may use it to make any donation large or small.... all will be gratefully received to help support the Club in its work online.
Thanks to those asking how they can contribute to the work being undertaken to keep this site up to date. The SRGC is most grateful to those who do donate via the link at the foot of these pages and gifts to the Club to help with these current forum costs will, of course, be just a gratefully received.
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Attachments have now been disabled until after the transfer has completed. you can still post, but not attach pictures until this is done.
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Tomorrow - 24th March - the SRGC Forum will be unavailable while updates are implemented. It is hoped that this will not last more than one day but we cannot be sure.
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Great news -
as posted by Ian Y .
"Fred has done most of the work moving the Forum overnight so it is now fully operational again - other parts of the site have still to be moved so may become unavailable while they are being moved over to the new server.
Thank you Fred."
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Very many thanks Fred.
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Much faster loading too, to my eyes
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I thought that too, but wasn't sure. :-\ Hope so!
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Well done!! ;D
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I'd agree, it does seem to be faster.
A good job well done and well worth doing.
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Fred still has a big job to move all the main website, he is working at full tilt!
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It will hopefully be a bit faster, the new server has a much higher spec. The old one was over 5 years old and really due for replacement.