But, there comes a time when you find out, you can’t do everything on your own anymore.
As you may know (depending on your browser and OS), we have been attacked by someone. We paid for help to fix this and thought it was. Until one day I got attacked again, as well as the Better in Texas team when they clicked on the contest link.
Not acceptable, so 4Padfoot went to bat for us today. Only to find out we are dropping that company, and going with another. This company is taking action, and assigned a tech to work only with us (which is great that we will know our tech personally!) and he only stopped working on it when he had to go home, and will continue tomorrow trying to find the issue.
We also took steps to make the site load faster and also help protect it. When we find the issue, we will implement the change and the site should load easier for you guys, no matter what device you are using.
Unfortunately, this all takes money. And I was always taught to talk money is crass, but to be blunt, we need help.
Amazon has not been hit up by many, and even then, it was $20 a month if that. I would be paid 6% at the highest for items. Barely enough to pay for all that the site needs. So, after talking to MamaKitty, she suggested a donation button. As she put it, no matter the fees for it, it is better than nothing. And since 4Padfoot and I have been paying things out of pocket.
So, we implemented the Donation button. It is easily found on the side on either the posts page or on the chapter pages.
Once we have recovered the cost out of pocket for what we have spent in the last month alone (Almost $300 in a week!) we will be applying the money to making sure the site is safe, and adding new features that will help speed up the site. None of the money will be used for anything but the maintenance of the site. In fact, as you will see it will be going through 4Padfoot to make sure that she will be handling it and be able to use it for emergencies like the one we are dealing with now.
Tomorrow, I promise I will post a chapter. I am hoping I can by then at least, if not, it is because the guy is still looking into the site to see where all these attacks are coming from. None of us can be on it behind the scenes when this is going on.
I will keep you updated on what is going on. I am also writing, and fighting my depression. Thankfully 4Padfoot got online and was talking to me this afternoon about the site, and gave something to get out of bed about. Everyone tells me it is because of the pills being different, but I can tell you it’s hard. RL is not making it any easier on me, throwing curveball after curveball at me to the point I don’t want to know anything bad anymore.
Unfortunately, someone tricked me into being an adult so I can’t build a blanket fort and stay inside it, coloring. Though.. That might be for the best since none of my pets would let it stay up, nor would they allow me to color inside it.
I will mention the Amazon thing, since that is still going forward to pay for things, like the digital storage we store all the pictures and documents on so that none of our computers being fudged up will lose all that work, as well as for now, it is still going to pay for the site. Instead of worrying each month if we will make the minimum for us not to pay out of pocket, we may be able to breathe a little.
Not too much!!! That may invite something else to happen!! I’m knocking away already on my desk!
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I’m sorry I am asking. But it has come down to this.
Kittyinaz
