End of an era?

[pwillard]

My Hosting costs just went up another $100. Seeing that I'm only months away from being retired, I need to control my expenses. Since I make no money from my websites, it's a cost-only venture that I need to "cut out".

So what am I saying... It's this... Railsimstuff.com will likely cease to exist after September 30th.

Sooner or later, you have to say, "It is time for a change". I'm not saying I'm stopping what I do; I'm just saying that I'm no longer paying website fees. They keep going up, and my income is limited.

[CSRX]

Is there a possibility to upload the files here? We are already thinned out on proper fonts, so it would be disappointing to lose out all together on them..

[eric]

Pete, I'd be happy to park the site here for free, and you can keep the site as-is with the same domain name, but just point it to our webserver.

It's the same offer I'd made for Andre, Melanie, and Scott.

[lumberman]

Good morning Pete, I really appreciate all the projects you have done over the years. A heartfelt thanks!! enjoy you retirement!
Jim,

[scottb613]

Hi Pete,

CONGRATS man!!!

That's a hurdle that's worthy of celebration - enjoy - sir!

Thanks for all you do for us!

Regards,
Scott

[jbtower]

Thanks for all you do for our hobby Pete. Congratulations on your retirement you'll definitely enjoy it.

[pgroenbaek]

Congrats on your retirement Pete

I just wanted to chime in with THE way to host static sites (+ downloadable files) these days from a cost and hosting quality perspective. Seems like yours is a static site looking at it, but I might be wrong.

Cloudflare Pages is the way to go for static sites. No limits other than 25MB-ish max file size and I think total size of the site being 1 GB-ish. They don't do bandwidth costs/limits. And you can have like 100 sites there on the free tier. You'd need to use Cloudflare R2 for files larger than 25MB-ish though.

Take Norbert's https://dbtracks.com site as an example. That site costs me literally nothing to host.

Files are not hosted there at the moment but easily could be using Cloudflare R2. I did the math and we're talking cents to a few dollars even in a very pessimistic scenario

On a yearly basis, the domain itself would likely cost me more than the hosting if I were to have the files there as well. Cloudflare R2 doesn't do bandwidth costs either, but only disk storage and "operations". Each download of a file would count as an operation.

I haven't used Cloudflare R2 for anything as of yet, but the Pages part works quite nicely for the dbtracks site and some of my other projects.

Not trying to push it on you, but maybe it's something you want to look into to lower your current costs.

Though, Eric's offer is probably the better alternative as it sounds like you'll also have the files hosted for free

[jdgremsjr]

If it is hosting and domain costs, I run a Web host. I would give you the space at cost. PM me if you are interested.