cisco
» CMF Member
Hi everyone,
Apologies for the site being offline for the past few days.
In short: the web server ran out of disk space while someone was posting a message, which corrupted the database.
I've now moved the site to a new hosting provider with much more disk space and faster speed aswell.
I've deleted about 50 fake/duplicate member accounts aswell. There were a few with phony email addresses, and also duplicates from the old days from people who had forgotten their password and went on to register again haha.
These things won't happen any more. Funnily enough, we now have just under 1000 members again.
I've also decided to do an entire cleanout of the message database and to start from a clean slate. Think about it, how much stuff do all us micra fans have in our heads thesedays? We've learnt so much during the past few years.
There was an astonishingly high number of repeated/wasted/stupid/redundant messages in the database. So by starting clean, we're removing all the crap and able to compile a beautiful knowledge base of information once again. If you need to know something, post a message and someone will know or remember and post a response. Before long we'll have all the information we used to have in here, but in a much smaller and more efficient pile of messages.
I'm still waiting to get a copy of the old messages from the old hosting provider, so once I have that, I will be able to look up old information as needed for people.
I do have all the images which were uploaded into the old Technical Forums, so don't panic too much
I'll go through them all sometime and make them available or post them into threads etc.
I'm also going to be upgrading the forums gradually..
Just some simple but important facilities that are probably much needed, such as the ability to edit posts, more standard ways for linking to images, and maybe a couple of other things.. So stay tuned.
Thanks for your patience.
Apologies for the site being offline for the past few days.
In short: the web server ran out of disk space while someone was posting a message, which corrupted the database.
I've now moved the site to a new hosting provider with much more disk space and faster speed aswell.
I've deleted about 50 fake/duplicate member accounts aswell. There were a few with phony email addresses, and also duplicates from the old days from people who had forgotten their password and went on to register again haha.
These things won't happen any more. Funnily enough, we now have just under 1000 members again.
I've also decided to do an entire cleanout of the message database and to start from a clean slate. Think about it, how much stuff do all us micra fans have in our heads thesedays? We've learnt so much during the past few years.
There was an astonishingly high number of repeated/wasted/stupid/redundant messages in the database. So by starting clean, we're removing all the crap and able to compile a beautiful knowledge base of information once again. If you need to know something, post a message and someone will know or remember and post a response. Before long we'll have all the information we used to have in here, but in a much smaller and more efficient pile of messages.
I'm still waiting to get a copy of the old messages from the old hosting provider, so once I have that, I will be able to look up old information as needed for people.
I do have all the images which were uploaded into the old Technical Forums, so don't panic too much
I'll go through them all sometime and make them available or post them into threads etc.I'm also going to be upgrading the forums gradually..
Just some simple but important facilities that are probably much needed, such as the ability to edit posts, more standard ways for linking to images, and maybe a couple of other things.. So stay tuned.
Thanks for your patience.
