As I said in the thread over there, I think that this has been handled totally wrong. I wont repeat what I've said there for brevity, but I think it's very disrespectful to the staff there that thier first indication was the email. Kathy and Eric obviously have been going through some stressful times, but I can say from experience it's way better to get your staff involved with how the site runs and the direction it's going in as well as the technical details (even if nobody understands, they still care! Heck, I spout off stuff about PHP and mySQL to the MTS2 staff and even if they don't understand totally, at least I'm communicating what *I* find interesting to them - which all goes to making the site better). I just think that this would have been easier and less frightening a move if it was more planned... but I guess hindsight is a perfect science, so we shall see.
I *am* serious about my 4th point. Pretty much my first reaction when I finished reading was "Hrm, I wonder how much it'd cost?". Heck, with some decent servers (plural), a good split setup and a day or so of memcached work, the "server busy" stuff would be pretty much eliminated and it'd probably end up cheaper and faster than his "8-core 4-8gb ram" server plans.
But oh well, maybe in a day or two I'll email him and ask him how much.
Even if I *did* own InSim, I'd just do the server administration and appoint a few admins to do the day to day running of things and basically just make it business as usual - except possibly changing the ads but thats fairly minor. Everything else? No real need to change it unless people want it changed.
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Delphy
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