A bit of bad news

written by Ryan Rinaldi on Monday, December 25 2006

My friend Andy who blogs here, maintains the server and helped start the GeekDojo is moving to Utah to take a very non IT job. :(  He'll be doing some camping and building the self esteem of teenagers through bonding with nature (or something like that!).  The sad part is that since he'll be leaving I'll have even less access to the server that the Dojo is running on than I had before pretty much forcing my hand to shut it down.

Shutting down the Dojo isn't something that I took lightly.  I've been trying to figure out what to do with the site for months.  The site has a pretty decent amount of traffic and has been saturating the business class DSL line it's been running on causing all sorts of problems with Andy's father's business that has been so gracious to host the site.  I've tried putting up Google Ads to help pay for more bandwidth, but the revenue generated has been almost non-existent.  I've tried to find other places to host, but the hosting packages I've found have been way to expensive for me to afford. 

Over the next week I'll be exporting all the data to BlogML.  If you are a blogger here and would like your content, let me know and I'll send you a URL where you can download the BlogML file.  When you find another home I'm willing to redirect all traffic to your site here to a single URL at your new host.  I'll also setup redirects of all your RSS feeds to a new site.

Again, I apologize.  This isn't something that I would like to happen and I wish I was able to give everyone more notice.

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Comments

  • Eric W. Bachtal on on 12.26.2006 at 12:15 AM

    Oh, Ryan, sorry to hear the Dojo's coming down. Guess I should have clicked more ads. Hope you and the Dojo bloggers find new homes soon. And good luck to Andy in his new adventure! Be well.

  • Mitch Denny on on 12.27.2006 at 11:39 AM

    Hi Ryan,

    How much bandwidth is the site using, I am wondering if someone would be interested in just picking up the cost of hosting.

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