Forum problems

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Ludachris

For whatever it's worth, I reached out to Brent to see if he's open to the idea of someone else taking over the day to day operations of running ClubCobra.com. I have a server with a few other automotive forums that I own and operate and I'd be happy to take on this forum and work on bringing it into the modern era of forum architecture. It looks like the members might appreciate it.

With the ancient software that's being run here, and likely the old hardware and obsolete operating system, this forum is one good crash away from being unrecoverable. I've seen it happen.

The same offer has been made many times. And we're still here.


Virtually all of the car forums I frequent these days are on only slightly newer software. Software doesn't get old and wear out. Darabase errors are not caused by slow hardware. The software and hardware are adequate for the loads this forum gets. Every one of these outages is preceded by a flurry of database related errors. Moving to more expensive software and hardware won't fix a corrupted database.

Things get real bad and then some magic happens and are ok for a few weeks or months then the errors and hangs and timeouts start again. It would be interesting to know what is done to put the patient into momentary remission. The response time was quite crisp after it came back until the database errors started again a week or so ago and then off the air completely for a week... back again then off again. And the long pause and database error after making a post is still present not that it ever went away...