urbanSTL

^ Valid point. Frustration has increased. Traffic has decreased. If this continues, I wouldn't be surprised if competitors started cropping up to usurp the throne.

Any update on this? It seem to be getting pretty bad again lately.

It's delayed until at least the middle of May. After then, things will slow down among the people that need to do the switch.

MattnSTL wrote:It's delayed until at least the middle of May. After then, things will slow down among the people that need to do the switch.

The middle of May 2010?

I got stuck on jury duty for quite a while and have been in and out of town lately as well as working on getting a permanent job. Some things really are more important. In the mean time, we've made it this long, we can survive a little longer.

companies fold all the time & zerolevity clearly has moved on & is leaving a shell up and running. i figure we're just a hardware failure, or personal crisis

away from losing everything .. you can talk circles all you want, but you're leaving the site in a very precarious position. and plenty of people have volunteered to help, if yall would only let them.



i wouldn't be heartbroken though, would be a good way to wipe out all the stupid posts i've made over the years

But, please, please, please keep the posts from reddragon.

It brings humor to my day as I "dreem"....

gopher wrote:But, please, please, please keep the posts from reddragon.

If they were going to be deleted, they would be by now. Those are a part of one of the more interesting chapters of the forum history and are not going anywhere.

Given the recent outage (I was getting the infamous 'phpBB : Critical Error could not connect to database' for 3 or 4 days) and the unbearably slow response times does anyone know the status of migrating this board to a reliable server?



Here is my hosting recommendation:



Site5



Site5 is reliable, cost effective and have great support.



If anyone else has some good hosting recommendations post them here.

finding a host isn't the issue. getting access to the current DB & needed files is, since the site owners are AWOL & our contacts on this board are too busy to get involved.



ZeroLevity hasn't updated their site since 2006. Maybe stop by 4258 Arsenal & see if they'll put it on thumb drive for you.

shinpickle wrote:finding a host isn't the issue. getting access to the current DB & needed files is, since the site owners are AWOL & our contacts on this board are too busy to get involved.



ZeroLevity hasn't updated their site since 2006. Maybe stop by 4258 Arsenal & see if they'll put it on thumb drive for you.

Who's paying the hosting bill?

^ lots of good hosts out there, but without the files off the existing server, what are you hosting...



^^ there is no bill. zerolevity is the host, they donate this site out of the goodness of their absentee heart

I've already got an account on hostmonster.com which is just as good as all the rest. I also know how to maintain phpBB sites as well and have offered to help with any transition to a better site. No dice, however...

I already have the hosting taken care of. It's just getting files moved at a time that works out. It could be a little longer. I am in contact with the owner. How do you think the error got fixed after only one day?

^ It was down for about three days. As the quality of service has dropped, activity on Twitter, blogs and Facebook have helped to fill the gap of this forum. phpBB is becoming kind of archaic anyway...

innov8ion wrote:^ It was down for about three days.

I was only unable to get on on Monday.

^ Ahh, I could be mistaken... I remember a lot of could not connect errors over a period of time.

DeBaliviere wrote:

innov8ion wrote:^ It was down for about three days.

I was only unable to get on on Monday.

yep just Monday.... Monday Bloody Monday

I couldn't get in at all Monday or Tuesday, nor Wednesday morning. Finally got in yesterday @ noonish. Got the same 'php critical error: could not connect to database' error that others have seen.



-RBB

RBB wrote:I couldn't get in at all Monday or Tuesday, nor Wednesday morning. Finally got in yesterday @ noonish. Got the same 'php critical error: could not connect to database' error that others have seen.



-RBB

Same here. And there was another multiple-day outage in June.

MattnSTL wrote:I already have the hosting taken care of. It's just getting files moved at a time that works out. It could be a little longer. I am in contact with the owner. How do you think the error got fixed after only one day?

this thread is 9 pages of you already saying, 'i'll fix it later'..



as part of the move off this host - I would rather we got a new admin who 1) has time 2) is interested in improving the site 3) and has the technical ability to do so



especially if you think anyone is going to donate money



\/ going for 10 i see

First, I'm not personally looking for donations, maybe a couple small donations later to cover a couple months, but not now. Second, neither I nor any of the other mods/admins own the site except one. I can't move the site to my server space if I can't get the files or the full go ahead in the first place. The ball is not in my court, so it will happen when it happens, unfortunately. Do you think I enjoy putting people through the problems? Or, do you think I personally enjoy not being able to get on? No. I was interested enough to join with a group of people and start this forum in the first place, so I don't want to have something up that people including myself are unable to use.