Post by bellman3021 on Aug 11, 2006 10:11:05 GMT -5
I've asked you to respond to my questions on taxi.net and here and I didn't get one so I did my own research to answer them.
I'm not trying to down your efforts in putting this site up as they're commendable.
I agree that taxi.net is outdated and would be better with new features and kudos to you for giving it effort, however, I'm concerced that you may not have looked at all the technical aspects of running your own forums.
Firstly, this site can only be backed up by the Proboards staff and they don't guarantee a recovery as they host them for free. So this means if they can't get it back then oh well we're and you are out of luck. That will not make for some happy forum campers. I don't know about you but I'd like to know the efforts of all the post, I and many others respond to, are saved and can be restored given a server crash. I could live without them for a week or so during a recovery, but it doesn't seem right or fair not to be able to get them back at some point.
Secondly, if Probaords closes shop you have no way of getting the post from their databases as their in a propriety format. This causes a problem identical to no disaster recovery. When they close shop all our knowledge in threads is gone as they do not provide a way for you to pull the threads out of their databases.
Finally, I want to reiterate that I'm not downing you or saying your efforts were in vein, I am however making you and everyone else that post here aware of the risk in posting on a free site like this. One day all the post you see here could all be gone and no way to get it back.
Taxi.net may not be pretty, have usability issues, and at times a non-friendly environment to post in but it can backup those invaluable threads that we each put time into.
Michael if you really want to start your own forums, my suggestions to you are research the open source PHPBB forums, purchase a web server or purchase drive space on one, and host the forums there. The PHPBB forums allow backups the forums and the ability to move them from server to server as long as the PHPBB in configured on the machine.
I'm not trying to down your efforts in putting this site up as they're commendable.
I agree that taxi.net is outdated and would be better with new features and kudos to you for giving it effort, however, I'm concerced that you may not have looked at all the technical aspects of running your own forums.
Firstly, this site can only be backed up by the Proboards staff and they don't guarantee a recovery as they host them for free. So this means if they can't get it back then oh well we're and you are out of luck. That will not make for some happy forum campers. I don't know about you but I'd like to know the efforts of all the post, I and many others respond to, are saved and can be restored given a server crash. I could live without them for a week or so during a recovery, but it doesn't seem right or fair not to be able to get them back at some point.
Secondly, if Probaords closes shop you have no way of getting the post from their databases as their in a propriety format. This causes a problem identical to no disaster recovery. When they close shop all our knowledge in threads is gone as they do not provide a way for you to pull the threads out of their databases.
Finally, I want to reiterate that I'm not downing you or saying your efforts were in vein, I am however making you and everyone else that post here aware of the risk in posting on a free site like this. One day all the post you see here could all be gone and no way to get it back.
Taxi.net may not be pretty, have usability issues, and at times a non-friendly environment to post in but it can backup those invaluable threads that we each put time into.
Michael if you really want to start your own forums, my suggestions to you are research the open source PHPBB forums, purchase a web server or purchase drive space on one, and host the forums there. The PHPBB forums allow backups the forums and the ability to move them from server to server as long as the PHPBB in configured on the machine.