On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> Somebody tell me what the big deal is about Van Cafe and Frank loosing
> their
> servers ? ..........
> I pay Fatcow 99 dollars a year to host a website with lots of capabilities
> ,
> like no big deal.   So what exactly is 'the problem' ?
> In plain English too please, should anyone care to comment.
> thanx, rantlessly.

Scott,

Please do not confuse Van-Cafe (formerly Volks Cafe) with VANAGON CAFE.
Van-Cafe is a relatively successful commercial
enterprise which sells VW parts.

Vanagon Cafe is my personal website which is focused on my own personal
Vanagon hobby. Like many people who have/had AOL service, I post photos of
events such as the yearly Van-O-Rama. THAT was part of the service you paid
for on AOL. There weren't too many economical and/or user friendly solutions
for hobbyist who wanted to set-up their own homepage 10 years ago. Hometown
AOL addressed those issues well until now.

To borrow your expression... So what exactly is 'the problem'? In plain
English, why would you comment about my webpage on this thread? =) I am
sorry if I bugged you by posting details about the move. But there are still
a few folks who visit Vanagon Cafe on occasion for one reason or another.
There has been more than 100K hits since inception when before I stopped
counting. =) Besides, I did not think I was alone among millions of AOL
users who only got a 30 day notice that Hometown AOL was closing it's doors
10/31.

For people like Frank Condelli, who missed the notice, there isn't a whole
lot of time to find the resources to transfer what sometimes amounts
to years of work to another hosting service. I thought it would be nice to
let some of the folks who missed the notice such as Frank. Since there are
some folks who do use things like the Vanagon Cafe's few How-To pages, I
felt it also a service to the greater Vanagon Community. I think that is a
bigger deal than a location of a single Westy for sale.

Regards,

BenT