Alright I had a chance to read around and read most of your guy's concerns. There is a few things I should point out though which also might make you want to go with the new community run blog hosting that Pixie has suggested here.
1.) First and foremost I want to send out my appreciation to Chica, Pixie, Styles and all those I might have missed who have been working to help the community. Thanks guys you did a wonderful job.
2.) Ok onto some technical things. I believe some people are misunderstanding some of the issues the site has. For example ..
- If the site is down and the server can't be reached there would be nothing myself or the CLs could have done with the same access I normally have. I don't have server access to get it rebooted or to fix whatever server issue their might be.
- When there is a weird server issue which is what I believed happened this last time there is nothing I or the CLs could have done to fix it with the access I normally have. This is why we could post and see the main page but could not access any subdomains. Something might have happened which effected the way the subdomains were working. The site was actually functioning correctly at the time code and database wise.
- Basically any server issue we experience wouldn't have been fixed even if the CLs had the same access I had.
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So the only real benefits gained by the access will be the ability to add to the site and fix any code issues. Even some database issues could be fixed with the access .. but beyond that not much can be done to fix problems that might arise.
90% of the issues we have had in the past with downtime have been server issues. The other 10% is usually something I did wrong in the code. :D
This is also one of the reasons I am in favor for a community run blog site on it's own server with full control. That way other people are in charge, especially ones you have faith in and if anything does come up you guys will have the ability to fix it right away.
Anyway my main point is even with me back or even if the CLs had the access I had then or now it wouldn't have made a difference because none of us would have been able to fix any of the server related issues.
So I think the best bet right now while it's being proposed is to go with something new that is run by the community. :)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Hey It's Me Again :)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Posted by LauriesAsylum at 12:22 AM
Ahhh. Thanks for explaining all that. Makes sense now. Something new might be best then..:)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Posted by WelshPixie at 1:21 AM
I figured it'd be a server thing since the site seemed to be functioning fine other than the disappearance of the login page and the actual blog pages. What I didn't realise is that you didn't have any access to the server-side things, heh.
You're the man who made this place what it is today. We (the CL's) just held it together. The reason behind wanting to start a new site was to recapture what we have here, but with increased stability and more people 'behind the helm' as it were. Now that you're back online and (I think?) have time again to work on this stuff, I don't see the point in uprooting - at least not for a *completely* new start - when we can work with what we have here now.
Ah, this is turning into a huge comment, hehe. I'll go post about it instead. ^.^
You're the man who made this place what it is today. We (the CL's) just held it together. The reason behind wanting to start a new site was to recapture what we have here, but with increased stability and more people 'behind the helm' as it were. Now that you're back online and (I think?) have time again to work on this stuff, I don't see the point in uprooting - at least not for a *completely* new start - when we can work with what we have here now.
Ah, this is turning into a huge comment, hehe. I'll go post about it instead. ^.^
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Posted by sarai at 5:53 AM
so long as this place is around I want no other blogging home, I'd just like it if it was more stable, and if the stability issues are related to the server then let's get together(yeah,yeah,yeah)and get us our own server :)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Posted by littleMissConfused at 6:24 AM
I don't know a thing about all of this...I can only follow blindly. If it is the server that is the issue, I say keep things the way they are and move to a new server...I have no idea what that takes....so I have to trust those of you that do, to do the right thing...I'll just follow y'all!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Posted by utahcon at 7:31 AM
I will go and do what needs to be done, whether it is here of there. Doesn't matter to me.
