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[bellman3021]

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I agree that taxi.net is outdated and would be better with new features and kudos to you for giving it effort, however, I'm concerced that you may not have looked at all the technical aspects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.

[mikey88]

I do see what your saying, an im not trying make this sound rude or anything so dont think that, but why worry about it. We will all post on here till the time comes if it does get shut down. Untill then why worry about it. If I lose a question I asked then I can either always try to find a new forum to get the same info or new info at that or my last resort would be to go back to taxi.net, But untill then I will continue to post on here and im willing to bet the other will too. An one more thing I think we really need to give Michael a break I mean he started this forum, so we need to just let him have it. I have already seen one post saying he is a fraud, and that makes me think back to taxi.net bashing days.

[bellman3021]

I agree he does need to reconized for his efforts, anyone willing to take time out of their own busy scheulde to try and assit others without expecting monetary value says much about them as a person. Also, anyone who publically apologizes (taxi.net post a few days) to someone says much about their character.

However I felt it'd help Micheal out if I shared my 10+ years experence in the IT field as to the potienal pitfalls that can occur with using s free site like this one. That way folks don't get angry when the site goes down and blame him. He could be proactive before it happens. BTW, it will happen, just when is hte question.

I have to disagree with your logic of just asking\finding information that was lost in another forum. I haven't found a forum just for taxidermist that's the size of Taxi.net and has as much information.

[backformore]

Couple of things, Michael is not busy; I would dare to say he can’t hold a job down anywhere. He apologized on taxinet because he had been caught, he did not do it willingly. If you go back and read on taxinet, he apologized to the guy that he used his name on his site as being an employee of his. The guy was not an employee, nor did he agree to let his name be used on his site. In addition, Michael called that just a learning mistake. All you have to do is e-mail Michael through his websites, and ask him for a quote to do some work for you. You will get some very strange replies.

[jwj4856]

You know what I think is that if you , backformore, dislike Michael and this site so much, then why dont you just simply stay away and let everyone else enjoy it, you do not have to do business with him or anything else if you choose not to.