Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019

We want to give thanks to all our members and wish you all a Happy New Year this 2019!

Also, we have some additional news regarding a software upgrade we will be performing this month. There will be 2-3 days where the site will be offline unfortunately while performing the upgrade. I'm working with the moderators to narrow down an exact time frame, however, it is tentatively planned for mid month this January 2019! This new upgrade will get the forum software to the newest version, which will cause some changes to a few things. So far, during testing, I've been able to get most of the important add on features updated as well for the new version, ie: the thanks feature and some moderator functions. I've also been adjusting the new style to look similar to the existing site as it is now. Hopefully after the update we will see even less errors than before and I'm hoping it improves load times overall as well.

Temporary Outage

Looking for possible causes, will get the site back up ASAP.

GG - Removal of Introduce Yourself Forum

We will be removing the Introduce Yourself forum this weekend during maintenance, which will take the board offline. If you are seeing this message, it is likely we are doing maintenance to try and fix some issues and remove the intro forum. Apologies for the downtime.

GG and YTMD temporarily down for scheduled maintenance.

Apologies, but we are constantly striving to improve things and sometimes we've got to shut down to do so... please have patience during this maintenance update. Thank you.

GG / YTMD Temporary issues...

Apologies for the downtime, we were offline due to supposed Trademark Infringement. See Letter Below:

HostGator Legal Department May 17 (6 days ago) to me Hello, We received notice from an Intellectual Property Rights owner, or its authorized agent, that content posted on your website violates their intellectual property rights. Enclosed is a copy of the notification we received. Please remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material within 48 hours, and provide written notice to us to that effect when completed. Given the serious nature of the claims alleged, we ask that you give this matter your immediate attention. If you fail to expeditiously eliminate or disable access to such allegedly infringing material, we will have no alternative but to suspend or terminate your website(s). Please reply with any questions. This letter is sent without prejudice to IWL Enterprises Inc. and LaToya Howard's rights and claims, all of which are expressly reserved. Please direct any communications regarding this matter to my attention. Regards, > Dean Strootman > IWL Enterprises Inc. > P.O BOX 31084 > Ajax ON LIT-3V2 > Canada Thank you, Kristin Hostgator Compliance Team

More Updates

Changes, adjustments, waiting for complaints?

GG Maintenance Update

Sorry.... for no notice... just doing some updates. Come back in an hour or so....

Server Adjustments

I've made some adjustments to the way the server handles connections and attempted to eradicate some more bad code. I've noticed increased performance, so I'm going to take some time for more analytics and find the next big hurdle to tackle. Hopefully the next step is getting new servers setup that can handle a larger load, because we seem to be consistently outgrowing our resources, regardless of the adjustments I keep making. I know I said several times about changing hosts, and how bad hostgator is, which we all know at this point. I'm working on getting that all in place and hopefully even a full forum software change, which will eliminate many issues we are currently seeing. Thank you all for your patience and continued loyalty to this site, we want to keep this legacy alive and allow you to talk freely about all these personalities and issues you are interested in. Have a Happy New Year Everyone!

Site went down ... situation unknown...

December 09, 2016 at 05:48 PM Hello, We are currently experiencing a network outage at the datacenter where your server is located. We are diligently working to resolve this issue to bring the network back online. You can track the progress of this issue in the following forum post: https://forums.hostgator.com/12-09-16-15-00-multiple-t345474.html We apologize for the trouble that this has caused. If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this issue please do not hesitate to contact us again. ------------------------------------------- Adam J. Linux Systems Administrator

Re: 12/09/16 15:00 : multiple servers : emergency network maintenance Hello, We are seeing problems with network flapping which could be caused by denial of service or other network issues in our switching fabric. We are methodically isolating the issue while making sure we don't deteriorate the network further. It's a large network and we are working on it in sections. Our best team is working through this at our data center and it is our goal to have this resolved very soon. In other words, we know this is frustrating and we are on it! Again, our sincere apologies for this inconvenience. __________________ Derrick L. Linux Administration Supervisor HostGator.com, LLC

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As common as this happens, I'm sure I'll get all sorts of criticism, but the site went down again. I've contacted the host for a reboot, should be up shortly.... As soon as we know more, I'll post again. Apologies.... but maybe it gives you time to look at more YouTube videos to Gossip about next!?!

Server Adjustments / Updates

We had some server updates and I made some adjustments to hopefully improve performance... FYI.