As some of you are aware, several of the websites i am involved in were hosted by freeforums.org .....It was a very similar set-up to what you guys have on forum5.com

For over a year with freeforums.com i put up with;
1. Constant downtime
2. Website going completely missing
3. No back-up leading to Hugh amounts of lost members info, messages and data.
4. Continual slow loading pages
5. Inability to login or register
6. Broken promises by the web-hosting admins

And finally, the straw that broke the camel's back. They always promised from day one that they would NEVER advertise on my free hosted forum.....

7. They put advertising everywhere on everybody's forums and said you can pay $5 dollars a month to have it removed!

I could not take it anymore. So now i pay for web-hosting and all of my websites are always there. Nothing goes missing, nothing is lost and none of the website are slow anymore.

You can get payed web-hosting for as little as $4 USD a month. To put that in perspective, a pint of beer in Ireland costs about €4.50 and a Mcdonalds big mac meal is about €7.00, so for the sake of a few quid a month, I'm willing to pay for a stress free life.

Now i can add anything i like to the website and i don't have to ask anyone. I just get stuff myself and add it to the website, including all the forums are phpBB3. You have to ask the question...."Would £2.50 a month break me?".

Google search; webhosting

John.

With all the trouble you had it would make one have a couple pints of Guiness A day!!

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It is indeed good to own your servers :)

Even they can go down for a week ;)

When you own it, you would have nobody to blame but yourself ;)

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If you have team or other forums hosted on www.forum5.com - they are all down and have been for while now. No information is forthcoming from the hosts and there is no knowing how long they will be down for.

I check every day and they are saying a MySqlDump is in progress. This message has been up since Tuesday, and the error messages at the top of the page were gone today.

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It is now officially back up.

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
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It is now officially back up.

Maybe, but I just tried posting and got error messages.

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It is now officially back up.

Maybe, but I just tried posting and got error messages.

I just found this out, too... Very interesting, and frustrating.

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

It is now officially back up.

Maybe, but I just tried posting and got error messages.

I just found this out, too... Very interesting, and frustrating.

I'll just be glad to see it back.

Nothing can replace a forum or it's memories by building another elsewhere. Much like building a new house would never take on the character of the original.

Not that many would know how to build a house, or a forum. Not that I would be prepared to make another forum just because a few disks had a problem.

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It now seems to be working fine. ...and, my rejected posts from earlier today somehow miraculously have appeared. Very strange; however, I'm glad the site is now truly back up.

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TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos

Great, it's back. That was some holiday.

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Great, it's back. That was some holiday.

Not back quite yet. I got this error message when trying to create a new thread, to welcome people back after the holiday ;)

Template->make_filename(): Error - template file not found: posting_attach_body.tpl

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Great, it's back. That was some holiday.

Not back quite yet. I got this error message when trying to create a new thread, to welcome people back after the holiday ;)

Template->make_filename(): Error - template file not found: posting_attach_body.tpl

Ice I started a trouble ticket with iforumer because of the problems so hopefully they will get things right soon.

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What you do today you will have to live with tonight

Great, it's back. That was some holiday.

Not back quite yet. I got this error message when trying to create a new thread, to welcome people back after the holiday ;)

Template->make_filename(): Error - template file not found: posting_attach_body.tpl

Ice I started a trouble ticket with iforumer because of the problems so hopefully they will get things right soon.

Thanks Stealth, for being the good moderator you are in CC. I've also reported that I cannot start a new thread or manage the accounts, or do anything in the administrator panel as it happens. I find it incredible that they should announce that everything is fixed and back to normal when so may forums there are still having problems.

Hopefully we will be back on-line soon :)

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forum5 seems to be back up for http://www.cafe.forum5.com but I can't speak for others, and I know some are still having problems.

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I think it is down again.

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

I think it is down again.

Do you?

I am the administrator of http://www.cafe.forum5.com and I say it is up and running.

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I think it is down again.

Do you?

I am the administrator of http://www.cafe.forum5.com and I say it is up and running.

Yes. Yes, I do.

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Mmmhh... ;-)

Its up and running.. but still with a lot of errors. Anyway.. i will be patient, there is nothing else to do.. And as the saying is; Positive thoughts gives positive results. So i think as positive about it as possible ;-)))

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Mmmhh... ;-)

Its up and running.. but still with a lot of errors. Anyway.. i will be patient, there is nothing else to do.. And as the saying is; Positive thoughts gives positive results. So i think as positive about it as possible ;-)))

Yes, the positiveness of the sweet and beautiful Moon is what is required here.
Let us all retire, giving space where needed, while things are sorted out.

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Mmmhh... ;-)

Its up and running.. but still with a lot of errors. Anyway.. i will be patient, there is nothing else to do.. And as the saying is; Positive thoughts gives positive results. So i think as positive about it as possible ;-)))

Sure, there are still some problems, and they are being dealt with as now some forums are up and running. http://cafe.forum5.com is now a usable forum, with all topics and posts back in place, recovered by the data recovery specialists, and final indexes for such as the cash mod(ification)s (CCCs, CocoNotes and Moon Crystals) now back in place. Any other final errors are being dealt with by iForumer as they are discovered. Unfortunately iForumer have announced for some time now that everything is OK, but clearly some forums were unusable and some errors still persist.

Other forum5 forums may still be having more or different problems, but I can't speak for them.

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