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Hooray! Forum is back up!

Post by Ad Orientem » Sat May 07, 2016 7:24 am

What a lousy time for the forum to go belly up with so much going on. Happily it's back up.
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Post by jafs » Sat May 07, 2016 8:23 am

I second that emotion  :P
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Post by ochotona » Sat May 07, 2016 8:44 am

I propose that if we all go down again, we hang out temporarily on Twitter, finding each other with #gyroscopicinvesting
Sort of like chatting outside during a fire drill
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Post by Tyler » Sat May 07, 2016 10:41 am

Man -- withdrawal sucks.  Glad the fix is back!
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Post by Mountaineer » Sat May 07, 2016 10:53 am

Ditto ....
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Post by sk55 » Sat May 07, 2016 11:51 am

guys why don't we setup PP Facebook GROUP?

that way if the forum goes down we gave a place to go?
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Post by dualstow » Sat May 07, 2016 12:20 pm

ochotona wrote: I propose that if we all go down again, we hang out temporarily on Twitter, finding each other with #gyroscopicinvesting
Sort of like chatting outside during a fire drill
A smart idea. I might set up an extra twitter account just to participate in that. Easy solution.
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Post by WiseOne » Sat May 07, 2016 12:51 pm

Yes to twitter method for temporary communication.  Doing without the forum this past week was painful!

On the plus side, I got to catch up on Fred On Everything columns. 
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Post by murphy_p_t » Sat May 07, 2016 1:46 pm

i was concerned Craig was pulling the plug on this forum, like he did on his blog :(
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Post by Libertarian666 » Sat May 07, 2016 2:25 pm

I'm working on getting an emergency backup forum set up on my web site.

Anyone who is interested, please message me your email address so I can notify you when it is up.
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Post by dragoncar » Sat May 07, 2016 2:27 pm

We really need to implement all three suggestions:

Twitter
Facebook
Tech novelists backup server

That way, we have four total modes of communication.  If at any time on or two are going down, hopefully they are compensated by the other 2-3
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Post by bedraggled » Sat May 07, 2016 3:33 pm

I have a "dumb phone."

Never done Twitter.  Do not have a Facebook page.

Barrett has my cell number.  Guess I should get my cell number to WiseOne and Goodasgold- and probably Tom.

George C Scott as Gen Patton in "Patton" said "God, how I hate the 20th century."  I miss it.  Facebook?  Wanna call me on my grandmother's 1948 Western Electric phone?  It's a heavy son-of-a-gun and works during black-outs.

Facebook?  Twitter?  Pretty funny, eh?

Cheers.
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Post by dualstow » Sat May 07, 2016 3:35 pm

bedraggled wrote: I have a "dumb phone."
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Post by MediumTex » Sat May 07, 2016 5:32 pm

Sorry folks.

Arvixe put us on a new server and broke everything.

Thanks for hanging in there.
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Post by sk55 » Sat May 07, 2016 7:10 pm

arvixe, is horrible ... we switched our website off it a month ago.
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Post by sk55 » Sat May 07, 2016 7:16 pm

bedraggled wrote: I have a "dumb phone."

Never done Twitter.  Do not have a Facebook page.

Barrett has my cell number.  Guess I should get my cell number to WiseOne and Goodasgold- and probably Tom.

George C Scott as Gen Patton in "Patton" said "God, how I hate the 20th century."  I miss it.  Facebook?  Wanna call me on my grandmother's 1948 Western Electric phone?  It's a heavy son-of-a-gun and works during black-outs.

Facebook?  Twitter?  Pretty funny, eh?

Cheers.

I jumped on FB pretty late myself, like 2 years ago... but this is the decade of social media.  my FB stock (var portfolio) is making serious money just saying!

you guys should just try it. besides u you can just join the groups you want. block people you want. so i don't really see the downside.
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Post by bedraggled » Sat May 07, 2016 8:16 pm

sk55, et al,

I had a Samsung x427m flip phone for more than 10 years.  I bought Ebay replacements in a lot of 6.  The lot cost $20.  A great phone but eventually the buttons started sticking.  I replaced the x427m.  Maybe I should have used a lot of contact cleaner.  It did everything perfectly. 

Now I have another Samsung flip phone.  It was left over from the 19th Century, it appears.  I miss the x427m.  I can't tell which end of the new phone flips open so I miss many calls.  Also, I still can't figure out how to set the alarm.  My naps are more complicated as a result.

My kids taught me how to text 5 years ago.  Sending a text was easier on the x427m, too.  [Patton: God, how I hate the 20th Century!  George didn't have to deal with a cell phone.  Lucky guy!] 

There was an internet posting in the last week about folks going back to "dumb phones."  Seems they are in despair about constantly being "connected."  I am ahead of my time with my current flip phone.  (If you fine people want advice on market timing, let me know.).
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Post by MachineGhost » Sat May 07, 2016 8:52 pm

sk55 wrote: arvixe, is horrible ... we switched our website off it a month ago.
We've all been trying to get MT and craigr (or whoever the owners are now) to switch to a better host for years;  don't hold your breath.
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Post by MachineGhost » Sat May 07, 2016 9:43 pm

sk55 wrote: you guys should just try it. besides u you can just join the groups you want. block people you want. so i don't really see the downside.
It's a giant waste of time, besides putting up with the alternative universe "high school effect".
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Post by MediumTex » Sat May 07, 2016 9:44 pm

MachineGhost wrote:
sk55 wrote: arvixe, is horrible ... we switched our website off it a month ago.
We've all been trying to get MT and craigr (or whoever the owners are now) to switch to a better host for years;  don't hold your breath.
I would be the one to make the change and I'm not opposed to it at all.

Can someone provide some hosting company recommendations?
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Post by flyingpylon » Sun May 08, 2016 6:05 am

I've been impressed with LiquidWeb (particularly with their technical support) and recommend them.

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Post by Pointedstick » Sun May 08, 2016 8:45 am

I've been happy with NameCheap lately.
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Post by dualstow » Sun May 08, 2016 12:34 pm

I know a guy who runs a forum with freeforums.org and although he doesn't really know what he's doing, the forum never really has a problem.
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Post by Libertarian666 » Sun May 08, 2016 7:54 pm

I use iPage (which is on the list of crappy companies above), and my web site is up close to 100% of the time. They also have pretty good customer support via chat.
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Post by Gabe » Mon May 09, 2016 11:06 am

I use DigitalOcean or Linode for cheap bare metal servers and Google Compute Engine when I need something really reliable + scaleable that's still flexible. If I have client money to burn, don't need much flexibility, and/or don't want to deal with any DevOps/SysAdmin stuff whatsoever I'll use Heroku instead of Google. But I'm almost always dealing with custom apps.

What's the software/database that this forum runs on? DigitalOcean has one-click installs of many common platforms.
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