ShoutOutLounge may be down on 18th of June

Dear Shouters,

3 days remaining. As mentioned in the previous post (ShoutOutLounge might be moving), 18th of June is the day our 2 year hosting plan expires. We have tried to put some plans in place in the attempt to extend the hosting with the same or different hosting company. Unfortunately, as of now, we still have not received any confirmation of a sponsorship. However, it is important to note that some conversation are going on, and we hope to reach a very exciting conclusion. *cross fingers*

But meanwhile, it is important to realize that discussion and negotiations will take time, hence this announcement. ShoutOutLounge may go down on 18th of June. We’ll keep everyone updated to the progress over here at this blog. Please check back often for the latest news.

To keep everyone on their toes, here are the 3 possible outcomes:

1) One possibility is to receive a sponsorship whereby ShoutOutLounge is given a home on a dedicated server. This means an entire server to ourselves! Imagine the possibilities, we will be able to implement a lot of super complicated features that we had to put on hold due to the current server limitations. Real Time update of your blog’s post on ShoutOutLounge is one of them such features. Oh, don’t forget Shout history too.

2) We may get a sponsorship on a shared hosting plan. This is good. This means ShoutOutLounge is given another chance for another year. We’ll be running as usual, and you can shout as usual. We’ll take this opportunity to continue upgrade and enhance ShoutOutLounge so that it’ll attract more and more Shouters. Some new upgrades will be the further enhancement of SOPhoto to include video and text-based updates. Better alert system will also be put in place on ShoutOut’s chat space. Also, pictures on SOPhoto will be embed-able on your blogs, complete with comments, highlights and more!

3) Request for Sponsorship rejected. Yes, we need to face the brutal truth that ShoutOutLounge is still unable to stand on its own 2 feet. By the end of June, if nothing happens on the sponsorship side, we’ll assume we hit this outcome. As mentioned to some of your over at ShoutOutLounge, I’ll need to wait for my June’s paycheck to come in and will start a new hosting at the best and cheapest hosting company I can find that is located within Malaysia.

So there you have it. The lowest point of ShoutOutLounge’s life. But we will prevail, one way or another. There is no where else to go but up from here.

Cheers,
Lasker

 

 

 

(photo by theakshay)