Thank you Dan

[Dan]

Computers eh?!?! Amirite?!?!1 lol

 

[Bill]

May I take it that you are hosting this yourself Dan? Surely it can't be too expensive to have it professionally hosted?

 

[Dan]

May I take it that you are hosting this yourself Dan? Surely it can't be too expensive to have it professionally hosted?

Christ no! You couldn't get the connection speeds we need across the network on a domestic line. Upload speeds are shocking even if you have 150MB/sec download lol

We're hosted in France on Teir 3 backbone (faster than what we get in the UK) and use a server management firm based in Italy, who are experienced in small-business DDoS attack prevention and monitoring. As we've had a bit of that in the past. And we use a range of software and hardware based all around the globe to ensure we stay online.

Problem is, we have one SSD that we load content from, and no slave (it wouldnt work the way we are setup) so when that fails, it's end of posting!

We've managed to load from it, and have cut back on cron jobs, taken backups offsite, done a few other tricks.

Our hosting costs in the region of £450 per month per domain! Hence me shutting down the 22 or so forums that I hosted but didn't use and nobody visited much lol

We couldn't host on cheap hosting. We'd never be online.

 

[PaulSmith]

Nice result. Glad were all back on line 😉

 

[Cstiling]

Thank god what would I read while x factor was on 😱

 

[J Sid]

has the site been down?

 

[Old Mod]

You must be shattered @Dan!
Least my phone will stop ringing now! Haha

 

[Dan]

You must be shattered @Dan!
Least my phone will stop ringing now! Haha

It got to the stage where I wasn't really being productive so just went bed. I was making things worse trying to fix things. Then the server guy was doing one thing and i was doing another and it was kinda counteracting what the other was doing. Communication isn't brilliant when I speak poor english and can't speak french or italian, and the server firm is french and the management firm is italian lol

So I did give up a couple of times and just leave it to the pros. Would keep coming back with a job list though. As I tend to have on the forums every time I visit them after a couple of days off lol

Thanks for keeping people posted matey.

 

[Old Mod]

It's ok mate, no worries.
I started a whatsApp group, if we'd been offline any longer I think we'd have stayed on our own forum! Haha

 

[Old Mod]

It was frustrating that I didn't have more numbers to add!
And no way of accessing them. Haha