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Hi All,
The server that hosts this forum resides in my garage - a power outage on tuesday night combined with a malfunctioning UPS fried the power supply,the motherboard & CPU...

Sorry for the delay in getting the site back up - I had to order up a used motherboard and a processor on e-bay - the replacement parts arrived late today.

If the new franken-server fails again - I have good backups of everything and will move off to a commercial web hosting service.

Thanks,
Jeff
Webmaster
GasGas Riders Club.
 
No, THANK YOU. You provide a great service, Jeff, and we all appreciate it very much.

This is my primary off-season diversion, and I missed it while it was down.

Thanks again.

blitz
 
Jeff,

Thanks for all the hard work!!!!! Boy I'm glad it's back up!!!
 
Thanks a bunch Jeff !! I was starting to get shakes from withdrawal !
good work and I love the website
 
THANK YOU JEFF

I did not realise how much I visited this site.

You don't know how much this site means to us Gas Gas riders.

Girard
 
Cheers Jeff,
I missed the site and actually wrote to Rick to make sure I was not the only one without it.
Thanks for putting in the hours mate,
Mark:)
 
MattR said:
Thanks for your hardwork Jeff!
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Forgot to mention... it seems like the new server is faster now. My PC would often time out before and I had to hit refresh to load properly. It only happened with this site. Now, I loads up quickly the first time. The new parts are working good from my standpoint. Thanks!
 
ALL IS RIGHT IN THE WORLD AGAIN!!! I didn't know what to do with that extra hour or two that I had each day that the site was down. Thanks Jeff for all your hard work.
 
Thanks for all your work in getting things up and running again......I found my self spending to much time over at Cafe Husky:eek:
 
MattR said:
Forgot to mention... it seems like the new server is faster now. My PC would often time out before and I had to hit refresh to load properly. It only happened with this site. Now, I loads up quickly the first time. The new parts are working good from my standpoint. Thanks!
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I bought a processor board with cpu and memory included. The cpu was advertised to be a slower model - turned out to be a newer amd athlon that benchmarks 50% faster. It's still pretty old though - I built this machine in 2001/2002 to host Les' website and the old smackover website...

There are alot of manuals and high res photos on the site now - so things can still be a little slow if someone needs to grab one of these - so please be patient. And sometimes my wife wants to watch a movie on hulu (streaming video) - so we will all have to wait for her! ;)

Jeff
 
i thought something was wrong with MY connection lol, im glad to see it was just a maintanence thing!
thanks for all your hard work! and even if it went the speed of molasses wed still appreciate it!
 
This forums content is the sum effort of the users and the moderators. As the homepage states,

The GasGas Rider’s Club is a non-profit entity and belongs to the entire GasGas community. This community includes riders, dealers and vendors. Costs for this site are supported by contributions from both vendors and dealers. Please join me in thanking our sponsors for their support of this site and welcoming them to the GasGas Rider’s Club.

But not a mention of what it takes to make it actually happen.

Jeff spends time every day doing basic daily maintenance and keeping spammers out, the cost for BB software & updates; a pipeline etc. to host this site does not come cheap. He maintains the server at his home and when something goes wrong as it did recently and has in the past, it consumes more of Jeff's "spare time" (of which he has very little) and a few more dollars. I personally can't imagine the total number of man-hours Jeff has in this from the very beginning, but I have a real good idea.

He is constantly behind the scene doing a heck of a job keeping this going. The Ad sponsors and donation funds don't come close to covering it. Jeff does it because he wants to, he really is one hell of a good guy and we all appreciate that!
 
Yes we sure do, and this is after a day at his real job.

Les, great to hear from you! I need to call you soon.
 
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