What happened to the forums?

I couldn't log in since last Friday till today. Something about wideband time had expired?????

 

same.

 

If you look on the main page in the upper right hand corner, you'll see members online. this usually reads something like 2 members, 600 guests, and 20 robots. It's the latter 2 that suck up the bandwidth. They are just trolling for openings to insert spam into the forum. Each one consumes bandwidth as long as they are on the site. Too many can result in a denial of service attack and shut a site down.

 

Thank you for the explanation.

 

I was thinking somebody didn't pay their hosting bill (but apparently that's good until some time in May.....)

 

websites are like cell phones.......if you run out of minutes, you up your subscription. Otherwise you get shut down until the next month when you start over fresh.

 

If it is a monetary issue then post up instructions on how to donate.
I've had two other forums I frequent go down in the last year. In each case, the person who started the forum kept control past the point where they cared about it, but wouldn't give up control to anyone else to keep it running. Makes absolutely no sense to me. I see Wagonmaster hasn't been here in almost three years.

 

What would it cost to keep it up? When I was looking for host info, I saw something that indicated some sort of 'subscription' was going to expire in May. This was 'host info' on that company in Phoenix.

 

Oops I didn't see your Thread until I had started another one, ignore that one everyone.

It was so scary to think that the site was done. So glad we are back...for now.

 

Easier said than done. Paying up to keep the domain name pointing to an IP address is one thing. We don't know where the forum is actually hosted even if we wanted to pay the bills.

 

Yep. Pretty much sounds like the other two boards. Owner loses interest and goes away and then something happens and nobody can do anything about it because the owner can't be reached or doesn't want to give up control for whatever reason. I'm all about keeping in touch, but those two boards had quite a bit of good technical information that you just can't find anywhere.

Same goes for this board. I mean where else are you going to go to find Stormin' Norman fabbing up 6 cylinder headers for his Fairmont using 45 degree miter cuts on black plumbing pipe, or that guy with the '72 Catalina whose wife wrecked all of his cars and he is then left to slowly rebuild them, or Wixom's two door Buick conversion thread that somebody dredges up every five years to see if he has done anything on it?