website slow?

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by patrickt

It is time for our Administrator to farm out the day-to-day script maintenance to a third-party. Clearly, he just doesn't have the time to devote to keeping it running smoothly -- that's ok. Just like when we had to bring in Sucuri to act as the intermediate firewall (which eliminated the porn/adware script hacks), it's now time to bring in a third party site maintenance firm to keep it up and running and for the ads/posts/views/replies to track correctly. If you've monitored the "Who's On Line" data, or even just the new thread posts, you know that participation on this site has dropped down to barely a trickle. And just like a restaurant, once you lose your customers because of bad service it can be awfully hard to get them back.

Are you volunteering your time and money?

Won't happen. Not enough revenue to pay someone. And give up begging for money. Just ask everyone who has given what their return on investment was. One group I follow still maintains the forum but even their own stuff gets on Facebook first and sometimes never on the forum and the forum has degenerated into being controlled by three people that don't even contribute to the main theme. There are a few car forums that have membership still but two of the ones I watch have given up. One even tried to sell the forum and couldn't get any money for it and that was 10 years ago. Let's face it, the "forum" method is losing to the Facebook method.

Even this forum software has been sold ... The new one is no longer free.

Forums are going the way of old guys buying fast cars