I have been researching the least expensive way to build a community on this website for a while and I finally settled on a tool that cost $200 per year. It’s very bare bones but it does what we need. You can now register and create a profile, upload your words, photos, and videos to share with us. I had to get rid of the bottleneck that this project has suffered, my time. I have a full time job, a husband, family, art projects, and promoting shows for local bands. Now all of you can help build this website into the place where we remember our past and promote the live music scene in Jacksonville.

Next on the to do list is to get more server space AWS to keep the file storage costs down. Rob has agreed to learn how to edit video and we will be spending a few hours every Wednesday night working on this project together so that we can publish the interviews we have already to Youtube, make pages for all the episodes, and make pages for venues.

I wanted to build this site on a server we can control and don’t risk Meta or TicTok telling us how to behave or who we can talk to. This is our history told one story at a time by the people who were there and the people who are still around. This site is not just for the old school punks, it’s for the new crew too. We want the new punks to keep the dream alive and make sure we still have local punk shows in the future.

I maybe offering sponsorship packages to help pay for the hosting. For now I am happy to focus on the build.