I understand btw if you are busy but please go into more detail if you find the time i dont mind waiting a bit
Like how much is total space for the entire website and how much of that is just mods
I would imagine the mods are the most demanding since running the forum shouldnt be too big if you set it up well
As for backups do you have all the mods and knowledge base backed up offline?
Also is it really necessary to use multiple hosting providers?
If there were a way to get unlimited bandwidth data or atleast data more cheaply i think it be worth some speed trade off it be better to download more mods rather then doing it fast
You could even do a priority que for speed for subscribers
Especially with offline backups of the most important things
You mentioned cloud well would be it so crazy to just upload some mods through say Google drive and other put the load on them bandwidth wise again speed wont be too bad either
Heck we could even do community hosting and just keep offline backups
Another way to get some heat off the site is hosting some mods on other sites Nexus, Modb etc etc it would obviously take time to do that but if we did it as a community it would atleast lighten the load here
As for IP please tell us more on that, same with software licensing what software are you licensing?
Also i assume Combat ace is an LLC is there any costs there just out of curiosity