Email Issues - currently blocked by SBCGLOBAL.NET

We are currently noticing failed emails to the SBCGLOBAL domain ... if you attempt to register or get our notification emails from an @sbcglobal.net domain you need to change your email address. Many reasons could have caused our email server to be blocked, including sending our notification emails to your spam folder because you didn't (or were too lazy) to prevent them from sending, via the website's User Control Panel - which is where you can change your email and other settings, including getting emails from us. IF... you put us in a spam folder, this causes many issues and affects your account as well. Please do not do this! IF... that isn't the case and it was another reason, apologies for the issue with your email server... you can also contact your domain administrator for the SBCGLOBAL email address (which might be served by AT&T) ... and ask them to unblock our domain. Thanks. Again, we are working on getting this problem resolved, but this is not a fast process and sometimes takes a very long time to get results from the stupid company that decided to block our email domain. The only emails we send out, you've signed up for - generally used for activation/registration and notification emails only... we RARELY send anything else out... WE DO NOT USE YOUR EMAIL FOR MARKETING PURPOSES OR SELL IT TO A THIRD PARTY OR ALLOW YOUR INFORMATION TO BE COMPROMISED.

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.