travelinwithus
Senior Member
The Facts:
1. It has been more than 6 months since we have saw Steve on Skoolie.net
2. We are getting upwards of 10,000 spam posts a day on Skoolie.net
3. The domain name Skoolie.net is registered through 2014
4. Many moderators have attempted to contact Steve through various means
5. I have attempted to call Steve on phone numbers I could find that were related to him
My concerns:
Skoolie.net is in my opinion the best site for Skoolie conversions on the web. There is a ton of valuable information on this site and a lot of history of all of our builds. If something has happened to Steve (hopefully not) it is only going to be a matter of time before the site goes down. From the research I have done Skoolie.net is not on a free hosting server and while the domain is registered through 2014. I imagine the hosting is either billed annually or monthly and if the billing isn't renewed the site could go down. If the spam continues to grow as it has been it is only a matter of time before the hosting resources are exhausted which could also cause the hosting to be suspended.
Steve is the only administrator of the site and the moderators have no control to fight the spam registrations. We also have no way of backing up anything on the site. It would be a shame for the site to go down and all of us loose the information available on this site. From what I can tell in the past the longest Steve has went without checking into this site has been a couple months.
I am NOT proposing we create a competing site to Skoolie.net. My hope is that Steve is just busy or has been unable to respond to our requests and that he will return and clean up some of this spam mess and prevent further spam registrations. What I am suggesting however is creating a contingency plan. If the members of Skoolie.net would like me to I will set up a new domain name and server and install the same forum software that is used here. Once the site is set up you can copy and paste your threads to the new site as a backup. If Steve resurfaces and cleans up the site, Skoolie.net will continue as if nothing happened but if the worst case scenario occurs and the site goes down for any reason we will still have a place that our information is available and we can continue updating our threads and helping other skoolie builders.
I am looking for your thoughts on this matter. I do not want to spend the time setting up another site and not have anyone utilize it as suggested. If there are even a few of you concerned about this and you would want to do what I am suggesting let me know. If not, then the issue will be dropped and we will wait and see.
I look forward to your feedback and it is my hope that Steve returns.
Sincerely,
Brandon
1. It has been more than 6 months since we have saw Steve on Skoolie.net
2. We are getting upwards of 10,000 spam posts a day on Skoolie.net
3. The domain name Skoolie.net is registered through 2014
4. Many moderators have attempted to contact Steve through various means
5. I have attempted to call Steve on phone numbers I could find that were related to him
My concerns:
Skoolie.net is in my opinion the best site for Skoolie conversions on the web. There is a ton of valuable information on this site and a lot of history of all of our builds. If something has happened to Steve (hopefully not) it is only going to be a matter of time before the site goes down. From the research I have done Skoolie.net is not on a free hosting server and while the domain is registered through 2014. I imagine the hosting is either billed annually or monthly and if the billing isn't renewed the site could go down. If the spam continues to grow as it has been it is only a matter of time before the hosting resources are exhausted which could also cause the hosting to be suspended.
Steve is the only administrator of the site and the moderators have no control to fight the spam registrations. We also have no way of backing up anything on the site. It would be a shame for the site to go down and all of us loose the information available on this site. From what I can tell in the past the longest Steve has went without checking into this site has been a couple months.
I am NOT proposing we create a competing site to Skoolie.net. My hope is that Steve is just busy or has been unable to respond to our requests and that he will return and clean up some of this spam mess and prevent further spam registrations. What I am suggesting however is creating a contingency plan. If the members of Skoolie.net would like me to I will set up a new domain name and server and install the same forum software that is used here. Once the site is set up you can copy and paste your threads to the new site as a backup. If Steve resurfaces and cleans up the site, Skoolie.net will continue as if nothing happened but if the worst case scenario occurs and the site goes down for any reason we will still have a place that our information is available and we can continue updating our threads and helping other skoolie builders.
I am looking for your thoughts on this matter. I do not want to spend the time setting up another site and not have anyone utilize it as suggested. If there are even a few of you concerned about this and you would want to do what I am suggesting let me know. If not, then the issue will be dropped and we will wait and see.
I look forward to your feedback and it is my hope that Steve returns.
Sincerely,
Brandon
