Sewing Mamas is on it’s own dedicated server

We moved to a dedicated server last night. Looks like we’re still here, so that’s good LOL

You may need to log in again, as the server information has changed. I know I’ve had to log in a few times where I didn’t have to before. I think the tables need to be rebuilt, that store all the information. I’m not much good at that stuff so I’m just playing it by ear.

The blog was down this morning when I got up, and has been intermittent . I guess wordpress has had some glitch, I’m not sure what’s up. It’s not on the sewingmama server, it has my materialmama blog and that’s down too so it’s not a SM thing.

We’ll be upgrading the forum software later this weekend or week, so stay tuned.

I hope the site is loading faster for you now, even during peak times we should be fine.

For all log in issues, please look here

We’re moving tonight!

We’re moving to the new DEDICATED server tonight, September 14th. Here is the note from Nathan, our server papa:

I can get you live on the site tonight I believe. And you should experience only a few minutes of down time (if even that).

Once we’re moved we’re going to institute a few more changes — an upgrade of our forum software, new moderators and we’re considering making the Boutique a benefit of sponsorship.

New Membership options at Sewing Mamas

Allison and I thought it was a great idea to create a sponsorship group for people who wanted to do so for shorter periods of time. We got this input from several threads and pm’s. The problem is that fees eat up so much of the payment, we can’t take it down to just a few dollars once a month. So here’s what we came up with.

new: 9.00 for 3 months

If you’d like to become a sponsor, check out the link here in your CP panel.

Benefits of sponsorship:

SewingMamas.com is a community run site that relies mostly on member donations and advertising to operate. A sponsor is a site member that has donated membership fees to help run our site. As a paid sponsor, you will receive these benefits:

The good feeling of supporting other sewing mamas
Free banner ads in your sig line on our forums
Free store in our Sewing Mama Hyena Cart. This must be first approved pending your past feedback, please refer to the Workshop for more information
Voting and posting privileges in the “Board Room”
Photo storage space in our Galleries
Custom logos and avatar settings
Larger PM (Private Message) storage space

Sponsor fees and donations directly fund the running of SewingMamas.com. No members are making a profit from the site. Quarterly financial reports will be posted for all members to view.

Sponsorship is $15/6 months or $24/year. If you are interested in being a Sponsor, we accept Paypal.

Please note that sponsorship is a donation. It is non refundable if you decide to leave before your sponsorship period is up.

And just what does sponsorship pay for?

• dedicated web server, hosting and site maintenance ~ We are moving to a dedicated server, and this is more expensive than a shared server
• Contest prizes
• Forum Upgrades
• Paypal Fees
• Charitable Donations

Thanks for your patience! Having children in Kindergarten, Preschool, Highschool are all kicking my behind and I have to schedule out my Sewing Mama Tasks time — I usually work on site issues on Wednesdays, so I’m not ignoring you.

Go sew something!

Nutmeg

Changes at Sewing Mamas

We’ll be moving to a Sewing Mamas dedicated server, using Nathan’s service. We’re doing a 3 month trial to make sure it stays online as much as we need it, and can keep on top of it. Once we move servers it will take a few days for the DNS to resolve. Which means for awhile some mamas won’t be able to get online — like a few days.

I have this blog set up to keep everyone updated as much as I can about what’s going on.

Right before this move, we’ll also be upgrading our vBulletin forum system, which we have done before and shouldn’t be a problem. We may lose some of the ’styles’ but all the content and your info should stay the same.

This will happen next week, and I’ll post here and at Sewing Mamas when it happens so you’ll know what’s going on

nutmeg

Coming Soon…

Keep up to date on what’s new at SewingMamas.com, coming to this space soon!