• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Server move early AM 08/12/08

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Apparently my server guy has been having some severe issues with the server (and fortunately isolating them from me) that he feels can only be resolved by ditching the server and moving to a new one. He is in the process of setting up the new server now and plans to begin moving this site (and others) to the new box approximately at 3am EST.

Not sure how long we will be down. If he has started copying the databases already (which takes MANY hours), then quite likely this message will not be on the new server when it comes up.

So please bear that in mind. If your messages get lost over the next 12 hours or so, it is because they got dropped during the server move.

If the problems STILL persist, showing it to be a problem at the data center and not the particular server, then he already has a new data center lined up for that eventuality. Yeah, major pain in the ass, but thank GOD he is doing it and not me. I should have hired a server admin a LONG time ago.

So bear with me. This isn't any picnic for any of us.....
 
Yeah, I know the site is REAL sluggish right now.........

My server admin is still in the process of doing the server move. This site is too big to do with automated scripts, so the manual process is taking longer.

Plus he told me this server we are now on has failed completely a few times during this move. So I think he is trying to beat the clock before this server just gives up the ghost permanently.

Just another day in paradise around here........ :shrug01:
 
Actually, a DDoS attack might be easier to mitigate now. The guy who pulled this site out of the fire during that DDoS attack is my new server admin... :)
 
OK, I don't know what the hell is going on..... I believe we are back on the old server. Apparently my server guy went with MySQL5 on the new server, and this old software is not compatible with that newer version. So strange things began happening, and I suspect the database got corrupted. It looks like the banner ads are still not working, and who knows what the hell else is broken.

I'm about ready to dig up the underground Comcast cable bringing internet into my house, cut the son of a bitch and be done with all this......... :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
 
WebSlave said:
OK, I don't know what the hell is going on..... I believe we are back on the old server. Apparently my server guy went with MySQL5 on the new server, and this old software is not compatible with that newer version. So strange things began happening, and I suspect the database got corrupted. It looks like the banner ads are still not working, and who knows what the hell else is broken.

I'm about ready to dig up the underground Comcast cable bringing internet into my house, cut the son of a bitch and be done with all this......... :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
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It will get better Rich, I am sure the bugs will all get worked out.

I will say though, all the posts made by me in the last two days have now went poof though. I guess his backup was a few days old. :shrug01:
 
Weird stuff happening, Rich.
I've received multiple email notifications of posts added to threads, but when I come to the site...none of them are here.

And, Bobby, not all your posts have poofed...the one you made saying they are gone is here :)
 
Yeah.... I think the site came back online around 3:30am EST or so, because I hit the sack thinking all was well after 4am. Then when I got up, EVERYTHING was dead. So any posts made roughly from 1am or so till whenever it died this morning are gone. I have to assume that the database over on the new server is corrupted and cannot be used. So when the server admin gets the MySQL issue resolved, this database will have to be copied over to the new server.

The problem is that this software is too old and not compatible with MySQL5. Apparently new server setups now ONLY come with version 5, and the my server admin wasn't aware of that. The catch-22 of this is that this server has some issues, we can't move to the new server because of the MySQL problem, and my programmer can't really start the upgrade (which will be a pretty involved process) until the server issues are resolved.

IF my admin guy can get the new server running with MySQL4, then he can move this site over there. If not, then I will have to see if my programmer can get the upgrade done POST HASTE, perhaps in plain vanilla version without the custom mods.

Oh yeah, did I happen to mention that I have a few thousand new baby snakes to take care of and Expo is coming up? :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:
 
WebSlave said:
Oh yeah, did I happen to mention that I have a few thousand new baby snakes to take care of and Expo is coming up? :ack2: :ack2: :ack2:
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And I start to feel overwhelmed when I get to around 150 babies...as much due to to the impact on my living space, as the time & labor requirement. Worse than taking care of lots of babies is trying to sell the darned things (for me, at least - I tend to tire of the interactions fairly readily, and start pulling ads...counter productive, I know, but good for my state of mind).

On a lighter note, I almost edited your post, lol (damn Edit button right next to the Quote)
 
hhmoore said:
And I start to feel overwhelmed when I get to around 150 babies...as much due to to the impact on my living space, as the time & labor requirement. Worse than taking care of lots of babies is trying to sell the darned things (for me, at least - I tend to tire of the interactions fairly readily, and start pulling ads...counter productive, I know, but good for my state of mind).

On a lighter note, I almost edited your post, lol (damn Edit button right next to the Quote)
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You should get zapped every time you hit that button! LOL :rofl:
 
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