Invisible (almost) changes to www.the-eversdens.co.uk                              Back to About this Website

The pictures of the Bells Dedication service at St Helen's on 17^th October 2009  filled up the tenth free 25 Mbs webspace of the village website, so I wrote to PlusNet to open Free Account number eleven. Their reply sent a shiver down the spine: "Free webspace service discontinued"!

The shiver was because I knew that meant wholesale restructuring of the links in ten different websites to combine them as one. It also meant finding a suitable provider of 500 Mbs of webspace and also, unless this was to become my annual gift to the village, a request for funding.

As it turned, out the Parish Council happily promised to stand the cost and a friendly space-provider was found right here in the village. Diarmuid Coyle of Little Eversden, arranged a space and a price. I sorted out the links - it took two days - and the site now resides comfortably in its new location - same address - and you never noticed!

The website the domain name used to point at has now gone. Google has not yet discovered this. Anyone searching for The Eversdens website at the moment will have to use the correct address www.the-eversdens.co.uk  . The address hasn't changed but Google is still pointing to where the website used to be "hosted".

While I was changing all the links I took the opportunity to tone down some of the more outrageous colour schemes and also to standardise the width of most pages to fit in the middle of your screen (or fill it if it is 800 pixels wide). I also removed some of the pages of links to such as financial services, computer suppliers, and motoring organisations. People are now so familiar with Google and other search engines that I felt such pages were no longer necessary. I kept the Shops page as that can be a quick way to a range of national and local stores.

Diarmuid tells me the website already takes up over 250 Mbs so the move was timely. The space of 500 Mbs should last at least another five years. By then a decision will have to be made about whether or not the site remains a magazine with archive attached - or just a magazine. As it stands it is a picture of Eversden life and landscapes throughout this entire century (so far).

The site today comprises 25,176 files - and growing! There have been 60,000 recorded visitors since May 2005. The rate at the moment is roughly 1000 per month.

The cost to the Parish Council is about ten pounds per month.

David Farnell    11th November 2009