Roll back the server or pass the baton

[DaveMorris]

I can not speak for Techno, but you obviously have no idea what the purchase price was/is or the monthly cost involved in running it. Think about it folks...Why would the admin not want people to get on here? I believe he has been trying to make it a lot better and the current situation is a little out of his control. If he moved the site to a different hosting company, he can't simply "roll it back". Show a little patience. He wouldn't have spent the money on it to just let it die.

[Technoviking]

Thanks Dave.

Wow are you people serious? You think I like having my site down? If you think this is bad, you were obviously not here before I owned this site.

If you would have actually read the PM I sent everyone, you would know that it is out of my control and just takes time. There is nothing I can do to speed up a DNS update. I have done so much for this site, spent countless hours updating it and bringing it back to what it was. You exprience a week of on/off downtime and you're talking about how the site has gone to hell? Get a grip.

Oh and BTW ocean1, you should really know what's going on before you go onto other sites and slander my name and say that I am doing nothing to fix it.

[temec_lover]

i havnt had any problems at all.. getting on or off or anything...

[Technoviking]

Not everyone will have problems, it is completely dependant on your ISP.

[CBlanks]

Time Warner seems to be doing well for me getting on and off. Techno thanks for the hard work. SDreefs is my #1 source for reefing advice, and also the only site I use to set up trades. I wouldn't have either of my tanks without it!

[Titan]

Mr. Morris,

With all due respect, you have no room to speak on one's background experience on the back-end issues of this site. You nipped it in the but when you mentioned you can't vouch for the owner of this site. Your nearly speculating like the others who have commented.

NOT starting a debate here

[Technoviking]

Oddly enough, he was the only person who everything he said was true...

[DaveMorris]

Because I have read the information that Techno has posted, and because I have talked to him before, and because I have other, outside knowledge of what a site like this costs to run/maintain, I am not speculating. I said that I wasn't speaking for Techno because he is a big boy and can speak for himself. I just don't understand why people will complain at the first sign of trouble and automatically assume that the owner of this site is too busy or doesn't care.

[Titan]

Mr. Morris,

You should have just said you were the subject matter expert, and I wouldn't have made any mention.

Ps i keep my words soft and sweet in case i need to eat them... lol

Sorry

[ocean1]

Im sorry Techno, it has just been very frustrating. I like the hundreds others that use this site on a daily basis are going through withdraws of a sort lol. I want to come on like I used to any time of day or night read posts surf and post. I dont frequent many other sites as much because I enjoy the San Diego connection that is exclusive to this site. I have been on not as long maybe three years and its funny we used to complain about the absence of the previous owner and updates. Its got to be hard being you lol. Anyway please accept my apology and keep up the work and could you make a sticky after deleting this thread about things that would help these issues? Such as above the DNS flush (which helped me) clearing cache and cookies and anything else you can think of. A sticky letting us know the status and things we can do ourselves would help. I just really do NOT want this site to go away and people to find a new regular site. We can always browse other forums but Sdreefs is home for many. I just can tell being in the LC in this forum and others people are confused and frustrated. Sticky a help thread and delete this thread so it doesnt cause any more problems.
Thank you and GL!
Jeff

[dbrooks]

You exprience a week of on/off downtime and you're talking about how the site has gone to hell? Get a grip.

+1

Mellow out people. It is a FISH GEEK FORUM!! How about some priorities?

And "Titan", I think you need to go back to New York.

[seahorse_man]

jeez,ppl come on!!!If you don't have enough patience for a little site repair,well I hate to break it to you but.............YOU ARE IN THE WRONG HOBBY

I would like to see you guys go and start up a site from scratch(thats pretty much what it was like,before Blake got to it),but only ppl that have been a member for more than 2-3 months would know.So just BE F'ING PATIENT,I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY THIS THREAD WAS STARTED.

Good job Blake,I know its hard to do what you are doing(running a site,switching servers,etc.)

not to mention at x-mas time when you want to do other things I'm sure than help ppl that b*tching AT YOU.

Respectfully,
Jordan

[jrod11]

Alright Blake I gotta give my support to you on this one.

Aside from being into fish, my main job is a web designer for a large web design firm. I KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT IS GOING ON AND DEAL WITH IT ALL THE TIME.

DNS Changes can be a huge pain in the butt and take some time to transfer over. In an ideal situation, you could have another server running the same site that could make up for the lag of the DNS. However, this takes lots money and tools that would not be cost effective for SD Reefs.

It appears that more and more people the last few days have been finding their way to the site, so hopefully the server is resolving.

Thanks again to everyone who helps maintain the site and make this a great community.

[Technoviking]

Thanks for the support guys, I appreciate it.

Yeah it seems that the down-time is dying down, should be close to being over.

[Redeye]

maybe the people complaining should cough up the money to support the site, if it means so much to them

I know I'm not orange, but I'm not *****ing either