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[Son of Hobbes]

God damn there's so many moving parts to all this. lol

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

God damn there's so many moving parts to all this. lol

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May be easier to just troll xenforo til they fix this shizznit!

 

[Son of Hobbes]

May be easier to just troll xenforo til they fix this shizznit!

Naw fuck this trash panda software, I'm over it.

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

Naw fuck this trash panda software, I'm over it.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

@Mañ'O'Green

So first quote (and I'll make this an official thread) is this:

Costs​

Discourse Hosting:

• Business Plan: $500/month ($6,000 for the first year)
• Enterprise Plan: Starting at $2,500/month ($30,000 for the first year)

After the first year, you can choose to continue with annual billing or switch to monthly payments.

Migration Services:
Our migration services are included when you prepay for one year of hosting, with up to 24 hours of migration work provided at no extra cost. If additional time is needed, it will be billed at $250/hour. Before starting, our team will review your data to confirm whether the 24-hour window is sufficient, though in most cases, it’s more than enough to complete the migration smoothly.

So we would have to pay for a full year of the Business Plan version of the software, up front. $6000. But it includes 24 hours of migration work.

I have seen anywhere from $250-$350 an hour as an average for migration work from freelancers and other developers. I am totally fine with still getting actual quotes, but that generally requires them to have a small sample/access to the database (assuming done through the backup file?)

And so with that, I also want to be considerate of who is having access to our "pot forum" info, you know what I mean? I trust Discourse the business. I don't know about Peter, Paul, or Billy Jo Bob freelancer though. I have no idea if that's me being paranoid about the security part of it, but just wanting to be realistic.

I do want to see if Xenforo will run the image optimizer on the forum (this is something I believe we can do on Discourse as well,) but Discourse isn't inherently made for large storage files. We will HAVE to utilized a storage service like Amazon S3 (I'm e-mailing on pricing for this, it's super reasonable storage wise, but @wwwillie made a point that there are fees for accessing the data as well, so that leads into: spring cleaning. What stays, what's important, what's not?

The storage add-on will absolutely have to happen to support migrating us over.

Once the full year is up; I am fairly certain (and I will e-mail them and explain our situation and concern) that we can drop our plan back down to the $100/month (instead of $500) if we have our external storage solution setup.

We currently pay $200/month for our Xenforo hosting. I will get a cost analysis on all the add-on's and renewal fees that we pay as well annually. Just so everyone knows this is a bit of a hike. It's not extreme, just... we gotta be vigilant lol.

Or shit, maybe the new site brings in some paying vendors, and suddenly we have some sweet bells n' whistles. There is a path here. And I am going to find it.

We'll all find it!

 

[Son of Hobbes]

@Mañ'O'Green

So first quote (and I'll make this an official thread) is this:



So we would have to pay for a full year of the Business Plan version of the software, up front. $6000. But it includes 24 hours of migration work.

I have seen anywhere from $250-$350 an hour as an average for migration work from freelancers and other developers. I am totally fine with still getting actual quotes, but that generally requires them to have a small sample/access to the database (assuming done through the backup file?)

And so with that, I also want to be considerate of who is having access to our "pot forum" info, you know what I mean? I trust Discourse the business. I don't know about Peter, Paul, or Billy Jo Bob freelancer though. I have no idea if that's me being paranoid about the security part of it, but just wanting to be realistic.

I do want to see if Xenforo will run the image optimizer on the forum (this is something I believe we can do on Discourse as well,) but Discourse isn't inherently made for large storage files. We will HAVE to utilized a storage service like Amazon S3 (I'm e-mailing on pricing for this, it's super reasonable storage wise, but @wwwillie made a point that there are fees for accessing the data as well, so that leads into: spring cleaning. What stays, what's important, what's not?

The storage add-on will absolutely have to happen to support migrating us over.

Once the full year is up; I am fairly certain (and I will e-mail them and explain our situation and concern) that we can drop our plan back down to the $100/month (instead of $500) if we have our external storage solution setup.

We currently pay $200/month for our Xenforo hosting. I will get a cost analysis on all the add-on's and renewal fees that we pay as well annually. Just so everyone knows this is a bit of a hike. It's not extreme, just... we gotta be vigilant lol.

Or shit, maybe the new site brings in some paying vendors, and suddenly we have some sweet bells n' whistles. There is a path here. And I am going to find it.

We'll all find it!

And I want to say to this note; 24 hours at $250 an hour = $6000.

Migrating and upgrading Xenforo was a fucking horrendous, holy shit, fuck this shit, "let's never do this again" ordeal when we did it. I am not kidding. So getting an entire YEAR of paid Business class hosting and support, AND 24 hours of professionals doing this for us, for 6 grand?!

Fucking A that is cheap.

It's just a lot upfront.

 

[Badfinger]

Dam, u guys making a new site just to give me the slip.

 

[Badfinger]

Geesh, i must have hit that nail on the head, dead silence.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

No one tell Badfinger the new site.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Oh shit @Badfinger ! I didn't see you there bud!