Warmest Greetings,

:: Saturday, May 03, 2003 ::

Saturday...3:25 pm EST - Status report on Cre8asiteForums

I think the best thing about the forums being down right now is the supportive emails from subscribers who miss it. I heard our friends in the UK absolutely loved it when for awhile the forums was pointing to a Yoga figurines site. The images of women in all sorts of positions seemed to pick everyone up! hummmmmm

We're not thrilled with our server environment (Cobalt RaQ 4 ), so plans are in motion to move the forums elsewhere. Cre8asiteForums gets tremendous traffic so this is a concern. All servers, maintenance, etc. is donated, believe it or not. Even the new home we're in negotiations with would be. Our problems began with a surprise IP/DNS change, but other problems arose after that. No recommended solutions have worked so far. Ours is not the only site effected but it is the largest and busiest on that server.

In the meantime, my lead System Admin, Al, has been changing the splash screen as this mess drags on. The forums point to nodeadlines.net, an IP with many sites under it. If I want to know Al's mood, I just check the splash screen (www.cre8asiteforums.com). It's still better than pointing to a porn site.

I think.

Thanks for bearing with us. Or baring for us. Or whatever you want to do.

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 5/03/2003 03:39:00 PM

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