Originally posted by Lighter
Everybody makes makes mistakes. Give the site a fast host and server, pay for it out of pocket and then you can gripe.
I am guessing you mean the several thousand pounds we owe UK Solutions as well as the $500 waddy has paid out of his own pocket to keep the site up on a dedicated server for the past 5 months.
Thats one of the reasons that things are happening slowly, we can't afford to make any mistakes. When we were at UKS they performed all the various software and hardware updates required (our new hosts will obviously do any hardware updates, but we need to manually update php, mysql and apache) - One screw up and we could be down for days. Remember when we first started NTFS? Waddy one day told me that apache wouldn't boot among various expeletives, 2 weeks later we decided to fall back to XP-erience until we were ready.
The current issue: When we used to have problems it was because the server could not cope with the high demand, server loads soured above 100% (somehow) - now we are dedicated it barely goes above 1% We can't find the problem. We have even had Jellsoft, the people that develop these forums, take a look, as well as Tingle the guy that wrote the news portal we currenty use - no joy. Waddy thinks he has narrowed it down to the way the server sends mail out everytime there is a new post on the forums, this adds up. That is why this feature was disabled, we do intend to return it once we have got to the bottom of the problem. We are hoping the latest RPM release of PHP 4.3 will do this (we have been waiting for it to settle into the community - thats how careful we are being.)
So please wait, we can't rush this, because basically we can't go back to UKS now, it would be a step in the wrong direction.
On a postive note, the new forum theme is ready and I am working on a rehash of the current main page theme, as well as one that will match the new forum theme.
Now I am not going to check this for spelling mistakes cos its too bloody long.
Peace and love, then you can eat your pudding.