[Capri25]capri25.net

[Denise Eng]

The two sites are already crossed linked.  For example, the national
site refers people to the WYC site for listings of boats for sale.  I
think a better question to ask is how many people actually hit the
national site on any regular basis.  Is there year-round traffic or were
there just bursts when the site was initially launched and as we got
closer to regatta-time?

 

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From: capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org
[mailto:capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On Behalf Of Smith, Craig A
(MN14)
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:52 AM
To: capri25 at lists.wyc.org
Subject: RE: [Capri25]capri25.net

 

How about a compromise?

 

Rather than shut it down and abandon existing users, why not point the
domain(s) to the WYC Capri25 pages?  This would preserve the value of
the domains, garner traffic for WYC, and cost nothing (other than $8/yr
for the domain).

 

In other words, all the files at http://www.wyc.org/capri25/ would also
appear at www.capri25national.org

 

This employs a webserver trick (virtualhosts) so the McDonagh's (who
subsidize hosting of wyc.org) would need to make a minor change to their
server's configuration, and the domain owner (Eric?) would have to
update DNS to point to the McDonagh server.

 

== Craig A. Smith mailto:craig.a.smith at honeywell.com
<mailto:craig.a.smith at honeywell.com>   
  Principal Web Strategist, Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center
http://www.ssec.honeywell.com/ <http://www.ssec.honeywell.com/>  
  Office 763-954-2895 Cell 612.518.2200 FAX 763-954-2313 

 

 

 

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From: capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org
[mailto:capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On Behalf Of Dutch Bull
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:13 PM
To: Eric Roubal; capri25 at lists.wyc.org
Subject: RE: [Capri25]capri25.net

 

As regatta co-chair, I would be inclinded to shut it down. I really do
not believe we will attract any out of town boats through that web site.
Any interest we get will more likely come from the WYC Capri website. I
assume most search engines would direct people to our site especially if
the other site is shut down. Time to get started on planning this years
regatta. I'll put something out very soon......................Dutch
Bull

	-----Original Message-----
	From: capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org
[mailto:capri25-bounces at lists.wyc.org]On Behalf Of Eric Roubal
	Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:36 PM
	To: capri25 at lists.wyc.org
	Subject: [Capri25]capri25.net

	Hi all,

	 

	The capri25.net site hosting contract is about to expire.  Joel
had previously paid for all the setup, hosting, and domain name expenses
for a year of hosting and 2 years of domain name registration
(www.capri25.net and www.capri25national.org).  We need to collectively
decide if we want to continue the national site and to fund it somehow.


	 

	At this point, there are no further setup costs (I've been
maintaining the site), and I've been able to reconfigure the hosting
contract to use a cheaper yearly plan.  Thus the new yearly expenses
will total $63 a year.  This coming Friday, the site will be shut down.

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