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  3. Posted

    Cheers, bb!

    Toby's been a star. Very impressed with his ideas and solutions to a neat backup setup.

    Nice to have a new member just offer up so much support just 'cos he felt like it!

     

    Also lucked out of the dedicated server too, as I received a higher spec CPU than the one I ordered (ordered a cheapo Celeron, but received a 2Ghz AMD Dual Core) so if we do have to revert to fallback, the site shouldn't suffer much in terms of speed.

     

    S'all good!

     

    Thanks Donators! Without you guys, I would struggle to afford the upkeep on here. I hope you like that I'm putting the donations to good use in making sure the site stays online! (And not filling me with cake or anything.. lol)

     

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    Unrelated, does anyone know any websites where you can buy cake and they support Paypal...?

     

    (Kidding ;))

  4. Posted

    Ok, apologies if any of you spotted a little bit of down-time this afternoon, but that was for a good reason!

     

    I have purchased a second dedicated server, and have setup the second server to be a 'slave' to the first one - essentially duplicating the site LIVE as it's being used.

    This means that if the main server decides to explode in a fiery mess, one quick DNS change and the site is back up in a minute or two.

    This second server will also take snapshots of the site at various times, meaning that if attacked, or all wiped, we can 'roll back' to an earlier time where the data exists.

     

    I couldn't have fathomed where to start with this if it wasn't for the great assistance of t700bes who has been Linux coding away most of this afternoon getting it up and running. And of course, it wouldn't have even been possible without your donations.

     

    So thank you, and here's to 100% uptime! :)

  7. Posted

    So if I just click on an advert link without taking it any further does it help the forum?

     

    Yes, clicking on an advert gets me a few pence. Every little helps!

     

    And to whoever is bored and is "+1"ing every post, that's not really the point... lol! :)

    +1 is Google's version of Facebook's "Like" (which, of course, is also supported on here).

    Any and all exposure to the social networks will hopefully link some of you as friends outside of the forum, but may also introduce others to the site: win win.

  8. Posted

    Currently no plans, as Subscribers are clicking on them as well as Regular members - and the clicks all help with the cost of running the site.

    I don't feel they are as obtrusive as other forums who put them in between actual posts, etc. And sometimes they're quite useful as relevant to the thread you're reading...

    The adverts for Insurance certainly get a lot of click-throughs.

  12. Posted

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  14. Posted

    Ah, right, I see.

    That's because Google still has the old site indexed, which I've taken offline (since the server issues the other week).

     

    I'll try and remember tonight and bring it back online. Should help with the Google indexing ;)

     

    ---------- Post added at 03:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:15 PM ----------

     

    Or actually, I think I'll put some forwarding thing in place..

  22. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I've just upgraded the forum to the latest version of vBulletin, which involved quite a large amount of changes to CSS files (which deal with layout of the site) and also a new editor for postings. I've tested these in Chrome and IE, and all seems well. But if you see anything weird going on, please let me know in here and post a screenshot if possible.

     

    Thanks!

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