07-09-2011, 08:02 PM
Quote:TOS violation? What kind of violation this site may commit?Well, it was mostly due to minors jumping onboard, and since Proboards was a little Nazi-ish about it, well, you know.
Quote:Well if you still don't have backups, maybe I could think something up. Guys, once I saw a forum with ~70000 posts go down, and the admins only had an old backup to restore. At least they had a backup, but anyway it is provided by their hosting service. Next time the provider has shut down the account, and everything's gone forever. ~70000 posts of ~3 years... It was so sad. Though the admins have also lost their interest in the forum by that time. So the lesson is that frequent backups are important.
I also run a forum, it's hosted from a cheap VPS service, and I implemented daily file system and database backups those are transferred to a different host. Ironically, the site barely has visitors. Funny that I have more registered members than this forum has, yet I have much less posts. The latest post was made on 3 June. hock: Anyway, it's a fan site dedicated for my favourite actress, AnnaSophia Robb. Few years ago such forums were loud, but it seems the interest for AnnaSophia has drastically decreased in the recent years.
You mean this girl?
Yep, heard of her first in Witch Mountain and Samantha: An American Girl Holiday before. Well at least that site's backed up every so often, while I don't really have much time to maintain things here, being that I have a job and other stuff to do.
Quote:I must tell that I must be damned - I observed that when I register to a forum, it starts to decline. Or maybe I'm just so unfortunate that I always find forums too late, when they're already declining. :? From my point of view, it seems like always I give the last shot. hock:
No, not really. It's just that people have some other things to do besides sit around and read forum posts.