Emergency Fix

Battling some issues.... give me a moment.... please... **EDIT: SERVER CRASHED**

YTMD Issues - Apologies

I believe we have a malicious hacker attempting to corrupt the posts on YTMD, I'm fixing the corruption again, I'll have you back up and running shortly. Apologies for the offtime.... I have to sleep occasionally.

Hosting Issues... ugh, again...

Hostgator fails again... I don't know what happened, but one of our servers is offline. Working on bringing it back up and getting you all back to your gossip.

Adjustments have been made and are ongoing

Please have patience while we make some minor adjustments...

Due to Recent Unruly Members

I'm now performing strict maintenance of the forum, good luck all....

Transition Nearing Completion

You should notice YTMD and GG are finally attempting to see end user requests... in otherwords, I opened the floodgates, the doors are open, we are online, etc... Let the testing and complaining begin. :)

Offline Notice - 10PM PST until TBA - For Data Transfer

We are going to take the board offline to avoid data corruption while we transfer data to a server in the same location as our other server ... tonight at 10PM PST the process, I'm told, is going to start. I figure within 12 hours best case it's done.... but could take longer. I may be able to bring the server online faster, but I'm at the mercy of our hosting provider. In theory, this will give less latency between our website and our database to provide the best performance and loading times with our current infrastructure. Enough nerd talk, we're putting the thingy next to the thingy to make the website faster. :) This will affect YTMD as well as GG ... apologies, future goals might separate the two, but YTMD is our sister and she lives in the same room as GG. :) LOL

FYI... Apologies, but it'll help you come up with better conversation I think...


Please also visit Hostgator and complain how long their migrations take - I put in the "Transfer Request (ID:202682)" on March 16, 2016:

Via Email: feedback@hostgator.com <- Subject: gurugossiper.com

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+hostgator/

And https://www.hostgator.com/management-team

Maintenance / Downtime Today - Unexpected and We apologize....

So while working out a few glitches, expecting a short return to regular use, we seem to be having a few tasks taking longer than expected. Apologies, we will be back up and running today, but you might have to work on your patience while this process finishes. Normally I would have notified prior to taking stuff down, but this was a bit unexpected and I truly apologize for the lack of notice. I was trying to get it back up and running and now I think I'm on the last bits, so I hope to have everyone back online soon!

Host issues - CURRENTLY UNEXPLAINED

We seem to be experiencing some issues, we are currently working with the host to resolve connectivity. Apologies. Please have patience and wait an hour before re-trying ... the less connect attempts, the faster the resolution.

Downtime today... apologies

Yes, today we were down for several hours and we would like to apologize for the inconvenience of that. Apparently, our webserver host decided to prevent access to our website while they claimed there was content in a thread that was "phishing" which violates our Terms of Service ... After notification of this, they promptly took action which was clearly unprofessional and ignorant. Speaking with one of their technical support persons - who didn't understand why I would be requesting access to the site to see this content they claimed was against the TOS - I realized they don't have our best interests in mind, as they wouldn't provide me access to see the content, nor would they let me see the "report" they received. All they provided was a link to the page, which turns out had nothing like that on it, nor does any of our site have "phishing" links or anything like that. If and when we do - they are quickly removed, and the user is banned. So, turns out they made a "mistake" - blaming their 3rd party company that deals with these reports - and brought the site back online. I told them it is not acceptable to prevent access to the site without giving me a chance to deal with reports such as that beforehand and will likely not be a customer much longer. Their response - we apologize - let us credit you a day of service ... are you kidding me?? This has got to be the most idiotic response. Of course you will credit us for the service, you thought we paid for downtime? No, we pay for uptime. Needless to say, as I have previously commented in other posts, we are looking into some upgrades this year - one of which will be finding a new host that has our best interests in mind and aren't going to make ignorant mistakes that cause unnecessary downtime. In addition to that, we are looking into changing the forum software to something more capable than what we currently are using. We appreciate the continued support and loyal membership that we have and will always attempt to give the best possible outlet for your gossiping needs! Thank you and have a Happy New Year!!!