No Access to Site

Fair go Rod,
All sites close for maitenance from time to time. Not the end of the world.
David & Michelle don't really get much thanks for all the great work they do. Quite a few worse things that can happen in your day if you get it into perspective.

I've been in and out of the site during the day and had no problems.

Did you make any enquiries of the office Rod? Perhaps you may get a quicker response or answer by sending David an email direct. The EO site is a lot more than just the forum (as I notice you use the "My position" and Blog features which don't exist in many, if not most, generic public fora). I've been on since 1630 EDT and doing a bit of blog-cleaning and haven't noticed anything similar to what you've experienced. I was having a poke around in the "Contact Us" section at the bottom of the forum page and thought this might be of interest in respect to the membership fee. It may also help to put things into perspective a bit when considering that EO isn't a generic system hosted templated (and cheap to run) forum like many of the others, rather a unique, purpose built, comprehensive website and reference system built from scratch and to purpose by a husband and wife team.


"You would be surprised at how much infrastructure, development expertise, time and costs are associated with operating such a large, dynamic, complex website as ExplorOz.com. The advertising income we derive still only covers about 50% of our operation costs, with the remainder of the costs being covered through our online shop, ad sales in classifieds, and membership subscriptions. Whilst our operating costs are high, we work very hard to minimise our administration expenses and don't exhibit at shows, run print or tv advertising, or use fancy marketing. Staff resources are limited to just 3 people on payroll, with the remainder of work performed by volunteers."

Give David a hoy. I'm sure he'll have the answers you seek.

Cheers Mick

Poor You
About the time you were complaining about having no access there was a message on the screen stating that essential maintenance was to be carried out and apologising for the short delay. And that's all it was........ A SHORT DELAY of about 5 minutes.

Be a bit more tolerant and you won't get replies like mine.

Disco.

Yes it was me - I installed a whole new forum code system to the production server and instead of waiting till overnight I decided it best to load it during the day and give some hours tonight to see how it performs before I load the next load of updates and reboot the system at 1:30AM when you are all alseep. Yes we work almost around the clock and I am trying at the moment to refine much of the code to improve general performance and reduce the download/page size.

Sorry.
David

It's been all sweet down here, and we are further away.

thanks for the update David I was wondering what was going on, so I thought I would sit back and wait till tonight before I had another look all is good. Thank you for the site, and it is worth my membership money.
Broodie H3