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Having some trouble putting together the server bill which has come due.
It's rather costly at 870.00.
THX JP. Donation -100
770.00



I tried to dump some of my prize toneswoods but no luck.


If youd like to help, please send what ever you like to
Lance@kragenbrinkguitars.com

We used to have many more sponsors that kept me in the
Black most the time. Things are a little different now and quite often
I'm pulling from the family kitty to cover.

Please consider giving what you feel comfortable with, and we'll see
how this goes.

Thanks so much!

LanceK

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Why so expensive? Just bandwidth from photos? How about disabling the attachment feature? We can still upload photos to photobucket and the like and use img tags to link them. It's a pain, but not as much of a pain as paying a bill like that every month. Photos in old threads will still be racking up the gigabytes, but after a while all the active threads should be attachment-free.

Sent. Thanks, Lance!


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Lance we will be sending you $180 from our classes at the end of this week. You can count on that!

You have mail.

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On it's way via paypal

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Coming your way, from north of the 49th, Lance!

Alex

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Chipping is as well - I've learned so much from the generous, talented group on OLF, let's keep it going.

Sent a bit to help via PayPal. Don't know if it's just my iPad, but your email address keeps bouncing for me, maybe other potential donors. Just a heads up.

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Brad Hall
Mystic Dawg Guitars

email worked for me

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I just did the copy/paste with Lance's email and my PayPal. I've misspelled names before, and PayPal'd the wrong person.

Alex

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I did the same with PayPal and it worked. When I copy & paste to send an email or pm, then I get a bounce. Probably need a 9 year old to take a look at my iPad .

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Brad Hall
Mystic Dawg Guitars

Let me scrounge around tomorow and see what I can do. I've never helped out with stuff like Classifieds subscriptions, so I'm due.

If it's going to be a recurring structural problem, we should have a discussion about it.

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Yeah, I can't handle the temptation of the Classifieds. A direct donation instead is better for me.

PayPal worked fine for me.

Let us know where you are on this. If you are still short, I can check the under the car seats and couch cushions.

StephenW

Hey Lance. PM sent.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

I've made so many friends here and have learned far more than I could ever imagine over the 11 yrs I've been part of the OLF.

Happy to help, PayPal sent Lance.

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The only issue with this is when folks move photo files on their online photo albums and the linked picture disappears. There are many threads in the archives that have a broken link notice instead of a picture....

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Hi folks, thank you so much for your generous help!
I have had a few questions about my email address bouncing. My paypal address is lance@kragenbrinkguitars.com, the email it self no longer works for me,
but it still works for "paypal" as its my "paypal username.
If you want to email me directly my address is lancekragenbrink@gmail.com

Thanks again, I can not tell you how much I appreciate your help!

Lance

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Yeah, I do hate that. But there are advantages as well. Attachments can only be viewed on this site and only if you're logged in, so I've been thinking about switching to external hosting anyway so I can link to my build threads from other forums and have people able to see the pictures without signing up. Or sometimes I just want to link one picture from another forum, so I'll have to go upload that to photobucket even though it's already on this forum.

But because of the members-only thing, I'm surprised the bill could be that high even with locally hosted images. What else is using so much bandwidth? The page source isn't too bloated looking. Or is that bill for a longer time period than one month?

Little bit of help on the way via PayPal. Thanks, Lance and all who contribute! Love the OLF!

Payment was just PayPaled to ya Buddy.

Next PayPal comes in I'll break a piece off.

For whatever reason, the server wasn't responding this morning, at least not to me, and I got a little taste of what it'd be like to have this place disappear. Don't like.

So let's figure out what we need to do to keep the party going...

I just sent a bit of money, Lance.

As a hobbyist, I know I get value from this site, and I am willing to pay for that value. I also figure there are lots of participants who feel the same way. Just something to consider as you think about funding structures for the future.

Sent u something

I agree with comment if this is a structural thing. If u want to open a discussion on how to solve (separate forum) glad to contribute ideas