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Completed-The 2009 Amerikanska Donation Drive
Posted by Sandy on Sunday, May 24 2009 @ 21:41:08 CEST (631 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates Current: 1500 SEK
Goal:
1500 SEK

We have reached our goal, thanks to Kelly Larsson, Thomas Bengtsson, Ingrid Brandt and 5 anonymous donors.
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Those who've been here a while know what this is. It's an annual thing this time of year, started by the founder of the site, Flame. I am continuing on in that tradition, since Amerikanska is really your site.


Amerikanska is a non-profit and ad-free site. All work on the site is done voluntarily.


However, hosting a website costs money.


Currently, it's 1500 SEK per year. That includes costs for hosting the site and the domain, which comes due again in September. We had been talking about moving the website to another host, but decided that the excellent service provided by Datakultur could not be rivaled.


If you're able, please help keep Amerikanska going with a donation to help cover these costs. All donations go to the cost of hosting only, no one is paid to maintain it, not even myself. Only a maximum of 1500:- in donations will be accepted. In the event it happens to go over that, additional donations will be held to pay for the domain name and/or held for next year's costs.


Donations are voluntary, helping to keep the site both ad-free and free to use, which it has been since 2001.

Read on for details on how to help out...

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Site Upgrade
Posted by Sandy on Thursday, February 05 2009 @ 00:14:09 CET (665 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates To try to stem the ever increasing flow of SPAM on the site, we upgraded from PHPNuke 7.9 to 8.1 earlier in the evening. It went relatively well, with only one period of panic when we got a database error. That problem was quickly resolved and the site was back up in just a couple of hours.
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Site Upgrade - PHP Nuke 8.1
Posted by Sandy on Monday, May 12 2008 @ 12:25:35 CEST (1342 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates Looks like we will be upgrading to the paid version of PHP Nuke (the content management code that runs Amerikanska). One of our faithful members, TimK, stumbled upon a "bug" (it's actually a security code in the current version of PHP Nuke) that will hopefully be fixed in the newer version.

So, look for an announcement soon, after we have run the new version through the rigors of our testing environment, that the site will be taken down to implement the upgrade.

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The 2008 Amerikanska Donation Drive - CLOSED!
Posted by Sandy on Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 19:29:50 CEST (1404 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates

Current: 1500 SEK
Goal: 1500 SEK

Yay! We have reached our goal with the help of eight anonymous donors. Thanks so much!

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Those who've been here a while know what this is. It's an annual thing this time of year, started by the founder of the site, Flame. I am continuing on in that tradition, since Amerikanska is really your site.

Amerikanska is a non-profit and ad-free site. All work on the site is done voluntarily.

However, hosting a website costs money.

Currently, it's 1500 SEK per year. That includes costs for hosting the site and the domain, which comes due again in September. We had been talking about moving the website to another host, but decided that the excellent service provided by Datakultur could not be rivaled.

If you're able, please help keep Amerikanska going with a donation to help cover these costs. All donations go to the cost of hosting only, no one is paid to maintain it, not even myself. Only a maximum of 1500:- in donations will be accepted. In the event it happens to go over that, additional donations will be held to pay for the domain name and/or held for next year's costs.

Donations are voluntary, helping to keep the site both ad-free and free to use, which it has been since 2001.

Read on for details on how to help out...

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Site Code Changes
Posted by Sandy on Monday, September 03 2007 @ 11:59:45 CEST (1855 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates Due to bandwidth and astetic reasons (the inability to limit the size, creating unusually large signature lines, among other reasons), the ability to post pictures in forum signatures has been removed. (image) will show in a signature that currently contains a link to an image.
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State of the Site
Posted by Sandy on Wednesday, May 30 2007 @ 02:04:50 CEST (2355 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates Well, it's been just about 4 weeks since I was handed the reins of Amerikanska. In that time, there have a been several minor changes made and a couple of major ones, as well.

My husband, aka Zeta, has been busy at work checking out some bugs in the PhpNuke code and we have been cleaning up the database.

The BIG Things

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The 2007 Amerikanska Donation Drive (CLOSED)
Posted by Sandy on Friday, May 18 2007 @ 11:54:59 CEST (2062 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates

Current: 1200 SEK
Goal: 1200 SEK

Thanks go out to 6 anonymous donors and one person who didn't tell me whether they wanted to remain anonymous or not, we have reached our goal for this year. Thanks so very much!

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Those who've been here a while know what this is. It's an annual thing this time of year, started by the founder of the site, Flame. I will continue in that tradition, since Amerikanska is really your site.

Amerikanska is a non-profit and ad-free site. All work on the site is done voluntarily.

However, hosting a website costs money.

Currently, it's 1200 SEK per year. The costs for hosting the site may be changing sometime this year, as we hope to move the site to our own webhost rather then pay for two separate hosting services. Upgrading our account to accomodate Amerikanska will cost a little extra, initially, but will lower the total cost by almost half of what it is right now, while upgrading the services. So, next year's drive will require less in donations!

If you're able to, please help keep Amerikanska going with a donation to help cover these costs. All donations go to the cost of hosting only, noone is paid to maintain it, not even myself. Only a maximum of 1200:- in donations will be accepted. In the event it happens to go over that, additional donations will be held to pay for the domain name and/or held for next year's costs.

Donations are voluntary, helping to keep the site both ad-free and free to use, which it has been since 2001.

Read on for details on how to help out...

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Do You Have an Amerikanska E-mail Address?
Posted by Sandy on Friday, May 04 2007 @ 11:35:38 CEST (2843 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates

For many years now, Flame has offered (through Everyone.net) the chance to get a free e-mail address. That company no longer has the same offer and we have been "grandfathered" in from what Flame tells me.

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Amerikanska Under New Management
Posted by Sandy on Wednesday, May 02 2007 @ 22:19:33 CEST (2705 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates

Having founded the site back in '98, I've been trying to keep it going ever since.

My ability to function as the maintainer of this site isn't what it used to be, however, and in the best interests of the site I felt it's time to pass that position on to someone else who can better keep things going.

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The 2006 Amerikanska Donation Drive (CLOSED!)
Posted by Flame on Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 11:52:00 CEST (3623 reads)
Amerikanska Site Updates

Sorry for the delay, lots happening in life. The donation drive is closed. Thanks to all who helped, apologies to those I didn't get around to responding to due to... issues. But it's now closed. I'll post a better update later. - Flame

Current: 950 SEK
Goal: 1200 SEK
Additional: One person has covered the domain name charge, which is not included in the above goal amount.

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Those who've been here a while know what this is. Supposed to be an annual thing this time of year, but I was able to skip it last year since I was able to cover expenses. But it needs to be brought back this year...

Amerikanska is a non-profit and ad-free site. All work on the site is done voluntarily.

However, hosting a website costs money.

Specifically, 1200 SEK per year, plus the cost of the domain which is negligible in comparison.

If you're able to, please help keep Amerikanska going with a donation to help cover these costs. All donations go to the cost of hosting only, noone is paid to maintain it, not even myself. Only a maximum of 1200:- in donations will be accepted. In the event it happens to go over that, additional donations will be held to pay for the domain name and/or held for next year's costs.

Donations are voluntary, helping keep the site both free to use and ad-free, which it has been since 2001.

Read on for details on how to help out...

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