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  1. I've been meaning to do this for quite some time. I've also been keeping an eye on the topic in Assistance about what everyone thinks needs to be done to keep Kametsu going and hopefully set it back on a path of striving and staying ahead of the game. For starters... I'd like to trash all of our servers. We're currently running things on three different servers. One costs $140 on a 1 Gbit connection, and the two others are $20 a month on a 100Mbit connection. That's $180 a month in server fees. The two cheap ones are what have been running the forum and the xdcc bots, while the expensive one was a server we used years ago for everything but was made to stop using it for anything to do with copyrighted material due to DMCA and has since then only ran private gaming servers and the gaming fansites of the network (which have all been displaying database errors for the last half a year). Basically it's throwing money out the window and we need to cut the leak off. Downsizing, getting rid of shit we no longer have a use for, upgrading the shit we do need, etc.. needs to be done. I want to start this by getting rid of all three servers and integrating everything into one server with a better cpu, more bandwith, and bigger hard drive spaces. As it currently stands, our two small servers each have a 1TB hard drive, and pretty weak cpu, with only 5TB of monthly bandwidth. The new server I have my eyes set on has an AMD Opteron CPU (8 cores @ 2.3 GHz each), 16GB DDR3 RAM, 2x 2TB SATA II @ 7,200 rpm hard drives, unlimited bandwith on a 100megabit connection. The thing is, the server has a setup fee of $149. Good news is, monthly costs will be cut to only 1/3 current costs. Instead of $180 a month, we'd only be needing $60 a month. Only thing stopping me from doing this right away is the lack of internet at home prevents me from being able to transfer over 2TB of data from our current servers to the new one... as well as being able to set it all up and install all the required stuff to make it run. On the site/forum side of things... AnimeTokyo was shutdown months ago. Grandia Online, Forgotten Memories, and Shadow Hearts Infoholic will be shutdown. Kametsu's main site will hopefully be able to get staff to help keep it updated (although recruitment have failed for the last 6 years). As for the forum, I'd like to get the new setup in process. This will be the reorganization of the boards. Removal of dead boards, removal of excessive and unwarranted subforums, downsizing descriptions, and a skin change. Staff will be reorganized. Staff recruitment will begin again, the 15 post requirement will be lowered to a single post, and postcount will be enabled in Introduction section to make it so the new users intro will count as their one valid post as well as bring more incentive to the regulars to welcome new users to the community. I'd like to be able to come up with some kind of incentive for people to spread the word about the community. I'd also like help on fixing and setting up the ability to login via facebook and twitter accounts (the feature has been broken on this forum because I failed to set it up properly apparently). I also intend to upgrade the software to the latest security patch, and pay to reactivate our spam management. I'm hoping to be able to set aside some time later this week to be able to call and see about getting internet setup at my house so I can be able to get things accomplished here. I've been away far too long.
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