milbog

Although this thread is from 5 years ago, I will respond here. I am playing an electric bass guitar (2 years, so just barely out of the complete beginner phase, I think).

As it turns out, at the moment I end up enjoying and playing mostly songs which have a upright / double bass "feel", if not actually recorded on double bass.

I am trying to dig up existing well made CDLCs of songs with that feel that are not very difficult to play, and I can share my list with anyone who is still interested . My motivation is that I am just by myself here, no music teacher around, learning bass and discovering some very old songs (like Django mentioned above), jazz standards and even some modern (Norah Jones, Postmodern Jukebox etc). Would appreciate any pointers.

So if anyone is interested, respond here, and perhaps we can start a new thread and work on an update-able list of songs for e-bassists that like the double bass sound or are aspiring double bassists.

At the risk of sounding like an asshole (sorry in advance), one would think that you could easily run a web server as well as the database for the forum and ignition on a VM for 10 bucks a month (20 if I'm to be generous and include some extra storage for backups and whatnot). There are hardly thousands upon thousands of concurrent users and neither do you store any CDLCs yourselves. The donation goal is 900 (!!!) a month and still there are performance problems that originate who knows where. I'm really puzzled by the situation. Sorry again and thanks for the service despite the recent issues.

Exactly. I wrote this very thing to Unleashed2k some months ago as well (it took several tries to load the page for sending the message and for it to actually go through).

I cannot understand why on earth would they need $900 a month to run a hosting for a forum. And with that, it is - admittedly - the worlds slowest forum in the year 2019. Perhaps in the history of the Internet.  I am just sad that this is a super useful forum which many people like, and donate to, but can still barely load forum pages without throwing an error five times out of six. And it has been pretty much like that ever since I discovered CF something like a year ago.

Administrators, hopefully this message will be considered as fair criticism so that you seek professional help with the problems with the website and resolve them in a long lasting way.