• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Adrenalinevision.com is looking for support!

Here's a reply I received after my donation, and it explains why they are asking for help.

Thank you for your donation to AdrenalineVision!

We truly enjoy the opportunity to bring these enduro & Hare scramble
events to everyone at a level of quality and depth that simply hasn't
been attempted before, and in the end we hope we're able to bring new
riders in to the sport we enjoy so much, but the costs are staggering -
We recently upgraded our server, increased our link to 100Mbps, and
combined with our bandwidth usage, our server now exceeds $600/mo.
Having one of our HD cameras cleaned after a dusty race is $400, and
while VA is our home base, and central to many East Coast events, we are
actually not close to any - we drive 5 to 8 hours each way to cover a
race - in fact last weekend we covered 2 races and had a combined travel
time of over 44 hours - fuel, HD videotape and other consumables &
travel expenses are typically about $600/race weekend, but I don't even
want to think about what we spent last week. Put it all together
covering 36 races last year, factor in the hw & sw here we use to
process all the video, and you can quickly see that it adds up to some
huge numbers. We've even expanded our schedule this year to include as
many NEPG races as we can. I'm not complaining - many folks just aren't
aware of what it takes to put all this together week after week.

In this economy it's tough to be writing these big checks every month -
we added some advertising onto the site to offset some costs but what
we learned is that it's Google who makes the $, not us - the ads are
generating 1/100 what we had hoped for.

So in the end, it's the thoughtful donations from folks like yourself
that are making a difference and keeping the lights on here - we really
appreciate your support and hope to continue bringing weekly updates
from the woods!

regards,

adrenalinevision.com
 
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