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Misc Sizzling Shenanigans: warm season whamby

Our new setup, should in theory, allow the site to take quite a punch. We have offloaded our image delivery from the server itself too.

CPU and Ram could be a bottleneck but our entire framework has switched off Apache so that is a HUGE boost by itself
 
Shawn said:
You'd be surprised how much originally came out of pocket and via actual work to keep everything working.

It's not like we make any money on the site and go on lavish trips or buy cars and things.

The last donation drive exceeded and allowed us to have cushion for off months and for potential server upgrades again if needed.

The amount of work setting up software and moderating with volunteer work is ridiculous tbh.

If I wasn't a weather nerd, and I had no interest in this page for example, it'd probably have cost 2500-3k in labor setting the servers and software up.

You'd think "oh, well I see I can get a website and hosting at GoDaddy for $5 a month, why do they need donations".

The reason we need donations is because we have to have a vps/server to handle the huge load during imprending Winter storms. So while 75 percent of the time, we could get away with a cheaper option, id assume everyone wants the site to work when it's really needed.
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Where is all of this hosted or setup?
 
Shawn said:
Shane and I need to sit down and come up with some cool perks to be honest. Since we don't run ads, we are gonna have to think of something cool besides colored names and banners
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Suggestions here would be nice tbh.
 
weather bubba said:
How about special forums for contributing members only? Or maybe give members who contribute a certain amount a model data package of some kind? These are just suggestions. Please keep this forum ad free for as long as possible.
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I'd love to do the model sub thing but I didn't even buy one myself with the money lol. I'll look into seeing it we can get some kind of discount. Ultimately it would be nice to use donation money to have our own models but the resources required are ridiculous
 
BullCityWx said:
Yall got any ideas on how to keep my A/C condenser line from clogging? I clean it once a month and it still will find a way to periodically clog. I’m thinking of getting a new drip pan but I’m out of ideas past that.
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Yeah, they play the commercial up here relentlessly! The bacteria that clogs the line are called Zooglia( sp) I’ll see if I can find the product name
 
Tarheel1 said:
Yeah, they play the commercial up here relentlessly! The bacteria that clogs the line are called Zooglia( sp) I’ll see if I can find the product name
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BirdManDoomW said:
porno
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Youre Weird Beavis And Butthead GIF by Paramount+
 
GaWx said:
With La Niña on the way, the better chance is that it would be warm and dry, which is what most models are leaning toward for the SE after it being wet before:

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Yeah, I really don’t have any faith in long range models. And I don’t put any stock really in Nina versus Nino anymore. Anecdotally, I observe we’re generally wet all year imby, winter being warm, summer hot but not extremely so because it’s so wet.

My guess is that pattern continues until whatever pacific oceanic, atmospheric pattern has caused it changes. Pattern forecasting.

Last year going into March, we had every variable on our side for a cold March. Nope. Warm. I just have no faith in anything changing, but I hope it does.
 
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