10-14-2017, 03:07 AM
There are backups, and I can only hope that I'm going about things the correct way. There was crash of this forum in the past. I believe it was within the first year or so. At that time I was able to get it back up and running with a minimal loss of content. But there are no guarantees made when it comes to something like that, which is one reason I've never asked anyone to contribute any money to this forum.
I don't mean that to sound so dire. Just trying to be straight up with everyone. When it comes to technology, I'm one of those guys that knows enough to figure some things out but not others. Sometimes I know just enough to get myself into trouble — most of the time I've been lucky enough get myself out of whatever trouble I get into. For better or worse (I feel for the better), this place has always been more about the quality of the conversation that takes place than it has been about the "flashiness" of the medium where that conversation takes place. There was a group that made me a nice offer to purchase the ownership of this forum early on and I turned them down. No doubt this might have put many folks at rest when it comes to things like disaster recovery, but I'm pretty sure that this place would have a totally different vibe had I done so.
The popularity of online forums has been in decline for some time now and that was the case well before I started this place. At some point online forums as we know them today will cease to exist. For now they remain but their popularity continues to fade. Much like manual transmissions in cars, these forums continue to have their ardent supporters — of which I am one. This all started because there weren't any CB1100 forums at the time and that seemed like a real shame to me. I thought it might be something fun and interesting to do. It took me long enough that when I first launched this place I wasn't even sure that anyone would even bother to join. (By the time I got things up and running live another CB1100 forum had already launched in the UK.) The way things have worked out have been a very pleasant surprise and I've been able to keep things going by not getting too carried away. At some point I will need to upgrade the forum software and that will be the next big test, which is why I haven't gotten around to it since things are still working okay for the most part. Simply put: we have a great moderating staff on board, but the IT division is a bit questionable at times, lol. Somehow it continues to work out okay.
I don't mean that to sound so dire. Just trying to be straight up with everyone. When it comes to technology, I'm one of those guys that knows enough to figure some things out but not others. Sometimes I know just enough to get myself into trouble — most of the time I've been lucky enough get myself out of whatever trouble I get into. For better or worse (I feel for the better), this place has always been more about the quality of the conversation that takes place than it has been about the "flashiness" of the medium where that conversation takes place. There was a group that made me a nice offer to purchase the ownership of this forum early on and I turned them down. No doubt this might have put many folks at rest when it comes to things like disaster recovery, but I'm pretty sure that this place would have a totally different vibe had I done so.
The popularity of online forums has been in decline for some time now and that was the case well before I started this place. At some point online forums as we know them today will cease to exist. For now they remain but their popularity continues to fade. Much like manual transmissions in cars, these forums continue to have their ardent supporters — of which I am one. This all started because there weren't any CB1100 forums at the time and that seemed like a real shame to me. I thought it might be something fun and interesting to do. It took me long enough that when I first launched this place I wasn't even sure that anyone would even bother to join. (By the time I got things up and running live another CB1100 forum had already launched in the UK.) The way things have worked out have been a very pleasant surprise and I've been able to keep things going by not getting too carried away. At some point I will need to upgrade the forum software and that will be the next big test, which is why I haven't gotten around to it since things are still working okay for the most part. Simply put: we have a great moderating staff on board, but the IT division is a bit questionable at times, lol. Somehow it continues to work out okay.