WTF Happened???

Seems to happen quite often here.

Believe it or not, operating a website with membership in the thousands is not an incredibly easy thing, particularly when ISPs, webhosting companies, and the like are continually changing policies, changing ownership, etcetera.

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is snuggly

It consumes a lot of time. And money.

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And who is the master of fox hounds?
And who says the hunt has begun?
And who calls the tune in the courtroom?
And who beats the funeral drum?

thanx alot to the powers that be for bringing the site back, I'm sure alot of people like myself are very happy!

let us pray this never happens again

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it's so very lonely

you're a hundred light years from home

Of course it will happen again, I don't know of any internet site that doesn't go down now and again for whatever reason.

Tell me about it.

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I'm Garth Marenghi - author, dream-weaver, visionary. Plus actor. You are about to enter the world of my imagination. This is my Darkplace.

Thanks be to Paulo for keeping our home safe and warm...most of the time.

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I have always been here.
I have always looked out from behind these eyes.

Excuses.... I've seen it done, and I've helped do it. You just have to know what you are doing.

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But I keep on comin' here, standing in this state. Well I'm always reasured the situation's gettin' carried away...

Erm, I'm doing it at the moment, with contact with IT support staff immediately and it's still not that easy at times.

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I'm Garth Marenghi - author, dream-weaver, visionary. Plus actor. You are about to enter the world of my imagination. This is my Darkplace.

We didn't need IT support staff. We were the support staff, so I guess that helped.

A few friends and I RAN the public school system's entire network for two years. I mean administrators, school board, teachers, students, etc, etc, etc. We built it from the ground up, and that was more than just forum/message board.

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But I keep on comin' here, standing in this state. Well I'm always reasured the situation's gettin' carried away...

Well, at the moment I'm running the website for the largest society in my college, about 9000 members. So far there's about 3000 members on the message board, well over 1000 of whom are active. It's not fun when the network crashes. We have all sorts of constraints on bandwith at any one time too, which makes it awkward.

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I'm Garth Marenghi - author, dream-weaver, visionary. Plus actor. You are about to enter the world of my imagination. This is my Darkplace.

I see your point. I guess we were lucky. We set up the network, had the right number of uber-techies (Everyone but me. As I was just a techie.), and we only answered to a few select people which gave us the freedom to do what we wanted with the system. It all worked out quite well.

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But I keep on comin' here, standing in this state. Well I'm always reasured the situation's gettin' carried away...

We have a very large network too, which leads to problems, esspecially as we have to cater for both Windows and Mac machines.

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I'm Garth Marenghi - author, dream-weaver, visionary. Plus actor. You are about to enter the world of my imagination. This is my Darkplace.