Hooray! Forum is back up!

[MediumTex]

Thanks for hanging in there with all of these technical problems.

I'm working on getting a more reliable setup in place.  Anyone with expertise who would like to assist?

Thanks!

[MediumTex]

I set up a blog to provide forum updates if we go down again.

It's kind of stupid to need backup like this, but whatever.

If the website is down, please check here for updates: http://gyroscopicinvesting.blogspot.com/

[dualstow]

It's a good idea, Med-Tex. Thanks!

[MachineGhost]

Thanks for hanging in there with all of these technical problems.

I'm working on getting a more reliable setup in place.  Anyone with expertise who would like to assist?

Thanks!

If no one else volunteers, I guess I can be the patsy.  Don't the moderators have the skill set?

Since I'm in the market for a web host, I was spending the downtime doing the research and boy is it a minefield out there.  Arvixe was fine until Endurance International Group (EIG) bought them out around the middle of last year and that is when our troubles started.

Unfortunately, two of the better high quality hosts, LiquidWeb and HostDime have just recently dropped shared hosting.  Gee, I wonder why?  The rest all have problems of one sort of another, including DigitalOcean and SiteGround.  I've come to the conclusion that you want to avoid any host provider that is in the limelight because everyone then flocks to it and the problems start accumulating from resource overutilization and shitty support.  And of course, avoid any host that EIG owns like mad.  The cloud-based one's aren't appropriate either.  And naturally, it comes down to cost as well.  Solution: Go off "the strip".

[Kriegsspiel]

I deal with this forum being down by cutting myself. This post took 5 minutes.

I only have one hand now.

[sk55]

Mt
Try site5 see if it meet your needs.  I will check on Monday who use as secondary host.  I know there pretty reliable. 

Pm me if you have any questions. 

[sk55]

Mt.

I don't mind helping.  I am network engineer. Setup redundant networks with the best gear.  Private cloud. 

But I have also used some.decent inexpensive Web host.

[sk55]

Mt

So try
Winhost
Site5

[MachineGhost]

Mt
Try site5 see if it meet your needs.  I will check on Monday who use as secondary host.  I know there pretty reliable. 

Pm me if you have any questions.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/comp ... g/1/newest

[sk55]

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

Interesting list site5 is top 4. 

Arivx is last lol

[MachineGhost]

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/compare

Interesting list site5 is top 4. 

Arivx is last lol

None of them are really "top" anything if you read the negative reviews.  They get too much exposure.

[dualstow]

I deal with this forum being down by cutting myself. This post took 5 minutes.

I only have one hand now.

I think that's not only a logical response, but a healthy one.

Logical as well as digital!

[Mountaineer]

I deal with this forum being down by cutting myself. This post took 5 minutes.

I only have one hand now.

I think that's not only a logical response, but a healthy one.

Logical as well as digital!

5 digits down, 16 to go. 

... M

[dualstow]

So is the forum up or not? A moment ago, not.

As I wrote on Libertarian666's forum, a place where some of us find refuge when this one's down, I find it ironic that Craig sought out the pp because he was all about robustness and antifragility in his line of work. This forum is...not robust.

[dualstow]

So is the forum up or not? A moment ago, not.

As I wrote on Libertarian666's forum, a place where some of us find refuge when this one's down, I find it ironic that Craig sought out the pp because he was all about robustness and antifragility in his line of work. This forum is...not robust.

URL link?

Write to Steve/tech for a password if you want to join.
http://www.rhino-retirement-analyzers.com/forum/

[sk55]

why don't we use

https://www.proboards.com/

for a temp forum...

its free.

[Libertarian666]

why don't we use

https://www.proboards.com/

for a temp forum...

its free.

Mine is free also (or rather I'm already paying for hosting and this doesn't add to the expense).

[Mr Vacuum]

I checked in with the admin at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php, a larger forum than this (50x users, ~2x total posts), which happens to use the same SMF software. He confirmed there were growing pains swapping different inexpensive hosting providers, but he rarely has issues now that he runs it on a dedicated server.

[Reub]

You mean that there are more pizza makers than PP adherents? Disgusting fatsos!

[Mr Vacuum]

Yes, but judging by the ratios, the average pizza maker may spend more time making pizza than talking about it on the internet, which may confer mental health benefits.

[dualstow]

1/4 spicy soppressata,
1/4 marinara,
...
...

The all weather pizza.

[Mountaineer]

Greetings everyone!

Thank you Craig for your efforts.

... M

[yankees60]

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

Looks like this was never accepted of formalized?

Vinny

[yankees60]

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.

Technologist,

Did you ever complete doing this?

Vinny

[yankees60]

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

Any of these ever get embraced? Did not look like from reading through all the other posts in this Topic.

Vinny