WEBSITE OUTAGE

[HFBfounder]

Hi folks, I feel really bad about the website being down and I sincerely apologize. Our "great" new host suspended my account because they said the site was too resource intensive.  

Anyway, I've changed a few things around to make it less intense. I don't really like the way they operate and I don't really trust them now, so if anything goes wrong again, I will move the site to another new host. The only problem is that it may not be quite as fast as it is now, which is why I hesitate to move it. In any case, I know it was frustrating for you and 100x more frustrating for me, so I wanted to share with you what happened.  :?

As of now, we're back up and running normally.

[ItsDubC]

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Too resource-intensive?  I hope this isn't referring to the number of concurrent users, as I know this site's only gonna grow.  I'll keep my eyes peeled for hosts just in case.

[jbicb3]

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Does that mean Gallery photos need to be smaller? Or some type of limit on number of photos?
That's the first thing I think of as using resources, is there something else?

Jerry

[HFBfounder]

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I've actually already purchased a license with another host. Everything is ready to go if this host screws us one more time.  :wink:

[ItsDubC]

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I've actually already purchased a license with another host. Everything is ready to go if this host screws us one more time.   :wink:

Haha very nice.  So ur still locked in on the 1st host's contract, paying the current host, and paying for a backup host just in case?  Might be time for me to click that Paypal button again.  

[HFBfounder]

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Yes, I'll gladly pay double to be prepared next time.  :wink:

At least we got, what, 5 great days(?), out of it.  :mrgreen:

I hope the changes I made will correct any future issues. :wink:

[Philistine]

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do you need to keep people from adding space-consuming .gifs at the end of their sigs?

 :wink:

[guppymax]

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It is impossible to control everyone and everything. Thank you for staying on top of the problem. At least next time we will know what is going on. Thank you.

max

[ItsDubC]

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Ya Ken, maybe the host can't handle that animated avatar of urs  

[HFBfounder]

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do you need to keep people from adding space-consuming .gifs at the end of their sigs?

 :wink:

haha, no, that wasn't part of it. I know I removed yours. I meant to turn off images in sigs a long time ago. You were just the first one to do it and I forgot about it. Sorry about that. I've seen boards with huge and multiple image sigs and it's hard to even follow the posts sometimes.  

[HFBfounder]

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Ya Ken, maybe the host can't handle that animated avatar of urs  

HAHAHAA!! I've been waiting for that...  :axe:

[szidlon]

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It was probably that crazy emoticon your so partial to  
:crazy:

[HFBfounder]

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coookoooo     coookoooo

[daisymac]

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Do you need more money to take this on? I can contribute more next week.

[HFBfounder]

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Thanks for the offer daisymac. A donation would be nice, but I don't want you to feel like you have to.