Poll Calguns Data Migration Round 2 - Aug 3

[TwoWheelsGonzo]

Wow if that’s the rig he actually has it set up on I’m surprised. Seriously ancient setup jeez!

 

[Joker67]

This platform is just better designed and functions better.

 

[Just-Some-Guy]

CalGuns? What is CalGuns??

 

[ikeo1]

Looks like it’s more zippy now. Let’s see if this holds over the long term. I’ll give him credit. He’s persistent.

 

[SoCal326]

The USS Texas was one of the last Dreadnought's the United States built yet served in 2 world wars and was lethal in the second one, what one looks like and what it can do is very different. It's sad to me so much angst being tossed at CN here, it's where we all came from for pete's sake!

Have you ever read the book "Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel"


Times just changed, and it's okay.

 

[SoCal326]

There was a site that went up about 2005 that catered to a specfic interest here in SoCal. It was great. All the cool kids came, newbies were welcome, and everyone knew one another. Things were pretty good for six or eight years, until technical issues arose. The owner squashed the bugs, but more popped up. They multiplied faster than he could fix them. Eventually the site became unusable. The owner thought his site was the shizz and that he was going to get rich off it. He was the king, and the king needed no help from peasants. He really should have accepted help or turned the reins over to someone who could stay on top of it. The site fizzled, everyone left, and it's now a hollow shell of what it used to be. Out of curiosity I just checked the site. The most recent post was last year. It's been three months since an administrator logged in. I suppose this is could be a cautionary tale, not only for Internet forums, but for many other things in life. When things are dark and you're sinking, don't be so bigheaded that you refuse assistance.

What site?

 

[D.A.V.I.D.]

Just logged on, unuseable. Shut down for weeks to make the site even worse.

 

[ikeo1]

Just logged on, unuseable. Shut down for weeks to make the site even worse.

Looks like it kicks the bucket when there's ~100+ members logged in. That seems to be approximately the time when the site goes to

They went back to the way it was pre cloud migration.

 

[SoCal326]

100 should be plenty, who would ever want more than 100
/s

 

[FJ40 Cruzr]

Newbie here to this site, regular on CalGuns so interesting what’s going on…

 

[Radman64]

Looks like it kicks the bucket when there's ~100+ members logged in. That seems to be approximately the time when the site goes to

They went back to the way it was pre cloud migration.

There would be over 100 members sometimes just viewing the market place at any given time, no pictures showing, no search feature, etc, I hope he gets it figured out this week.

 

[treelogger]

There’s no room for growth. Imagine trying to run a site with several thousand simultaneous users on a $35/$70 dedicated host! Database AND webserver on 4 cores!

Given the numbers we've heard, it's sort of ridiculous to try to run a web site that brings in about $5K or $10K of revenue a month on a $70 host.

 

[D.A.V.I.D.]

The one thing I just saw when I finally got it loaded for 1 page and then couldn’t go to the next was hilarious. Just a page of people praising him for all his hard work and dedication to calguns.

 

[Radman64]

The one thing I just saw when I finally got it loaded for 1 page and then couldn’t go to the next was hilarious. Just a page of people praising him for all his hard work and dedication to calguns.

Right?
Not one comment about trying to save a pence costing a pound lol.

 

[Radman64]

100 should be plenty, who would ever want more than 100
/s

Businesses/advertisers, sellers, etc.
There a business side to it also where it does make money.

 

[Librarian]

Kestryll, from the FB group

I've gone as far as I can go on the server side with the host company support, both free and paid. Now the issues are software and database related which means working with vBulletin.

I have been working with their support forum staff and have again run that out. I could keep going but with an average of one response a day it would take far longer than I want.

I've now engaged the paid support staff and given access to the server and software so the developers can come in and fix things. Hopefully these can be fixed while we're live but I cannot guarantee that.

On the plus side I've found someone who does mods for vB6 and reached out to him to find out if either a new mod to replace iTrader can be made or even if it is possible to use the original iTrader mod files to 'update' it to work with vB6.

I was planning on doing this yesterday to have things open for the weekend but yesterday was my 37th wedding anniversary and if I spent it working on the forum the Boss would have fired me.

And then killed me.

 

[SoCal326]

The end is near and soon the transition will be complete.

 

[Radman64]

Would I get in trouble if I posted about this forum on their announcement thread?

 

[Chupacabra]

The end is near and soon the transition will be complete.

TOS going from half dead to dead is a complete transition.

Would I get in trouble if I posted about this forum on their announcement thread?

The petty janitor would delete your post.

 

[ELIXIR]

It's been super slow for me as well. Also, this "update" removed my profile image. I tried adding it once more and it gives me an error. Unable to for now.