First, welcome back to the board.
I know the shut down a few weeks ago was a bit sudden, sorry for that, but it had to be done.
I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't shut down the board, the whole site would've gone down.
Here's what happened, sometimes the truth is a lot less exciting than some of the speculations you can find online:
1 - I notice the server being slow (again), have to put board in maintenance mode, open it, maintenance mode, open it etc. Well I did this a few times and then contacted the webhosting guys to ask what to do. I was told they'd get a better server.
2 - I closed the board since I was tired of trying to keep it open by putting it in maintenance mode many times each day. I figured it would take a few days to get the new server and then I'd open it again.
3 - The search for a new server took a new turn when the webhosting guys found a better deal somewhere else. Obviously this added to the down time.
4 - The site was moved to a new server earlier this week. You might have heard that this means
something in regards to GN'R or whatever. It doesn't as far as I know. We just moved the site to a faster server.
Sanctuary is helping me out with bandwidth and a place to host the site. That's been the case for a while now, it didn't happen this week just because somebody found out about it this week.
I'm still running the site, just like I've done before. As I mentioned above, they've been helping out for a while now. How many of you have noticed a change on the site?
The board is still run by the same people as before the "break". Nothing has changed, except we're on a better server now.
Thank you for your patience, I know it hasn't been easy for some of you.
Thanks also for the people who helped out with moving the site, and also the ones who put up with me when I had more free time than I usually do.......?
/jarmo
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