I'm in a real quandry about me website.

[panik]

I just got the renewal notice; it's gone up again and the current exchange rate means it's going to cost me over £100 to keep it on for another year  and I'm wondering what to do. TBH, I've pretty much lost interest in the thing. The message board is moribund, the chat has moved on. Aside from the downloads, practically no one visits it anymore.

I could get free-space and move a lot of the text-based stuff there but obviously, if I did that, the galleries and the downloads would have to go.

So, I suppose what I'm asking is, does anyone really care? Would it be massively missed if it disappeared, because I admit, I'm tempted to just let it go.

ETA. Looking at the comments, it does seem all anyone's really interested in is the fate of the downloads. Maybe some other arrangement can be made to host these on another website (though be aware that it requires a lot of memory and bandwidth)? It does look like the rest of the site can go because it doesn't seem  that anyone will miss it at all.

Comments

[banbury.livejournal.com]

Your site is really helpful and I visit it from time to time not only to download, but to read as well. I'm not sure how you could do it, but maybe everybody who download can donate some money to keep site running?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

The fic and reports and stuff, I'll be moving to a cheaper host. It's the downloads that cost all the money and I just don't want to do it any more. I'm sorry that people are going to be inconvenienced and sorry to see them go but - I can't afford the time and I certainly can't afford the money any more. I don't think donations would work. I'm looking into re-hosting the dls somewhere else - if I can find someone who wants to take on this frankly thankless task.

But the site as it currently stands is coming down. I'm sorry about that but I think it'll be a relief to me when it's gone, tbh.