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Mine just came back up for now.

Southeast -

We realize it is frustrating however , like the rest of us, the Administrator does need to sleep.      It was not just disconnected either.    Please try to use some patience here.    As soon as he is able to he will get running again.      

brad - 

He is not going to just turn over access to the server to anyone

Sibyl, while I do appreciate your position and loyalty to SMFFF, I am a business man and have been for many years.  I am not criticizing anything other than the fact that when you are in possession of peoples funds, it is a smart move to either address your peoples concerns or to have a secondary set of personnel to address them.  I do understand that SMFFF must sleep, however, I cannot fathom the fact that there are probably several thousand sites hosted and no one to address people concerns on a satisfactory basis.  Simply allowing 100% of your traffic to be compromised on a regular basis will kill any idea of future success this service has to offer and if not, it will keep a steady turnover rate at which point it creates WAY more headache than preventative maintenance.  I guess I am voicing my concern due to the fact that there was no "heads up" so to speak and 100% of the forum owners on S3 and S4 were not able to communicate this issue to thier respective forums.  I say this based on the fact that I "think" SMFFF was attempting to convert some software on the servers and then they simply disappeared for now, 12 hours and counting.  I have invested my personal and my members funds into our forums and I am having to answer to 103 people so the chain of command keeps going up at which here I am.

Hopefully you do not take my post as being angry, rather trying to offer execution level advice to a small businessman.  I even had a staff member/IT professional offer to help sort issues at no charge and nothing ever became from the offer.  I do not understand.

It would be nice if the admin would login and post up as to what is happening so everyone can have a but of peace.  I have a large get together this weekend and the way people are keeping up with when/where/wht to bring is through my forum.  Does this forum not have an "announce topic" like the others?  This is a bit unprofessional IMO to just disconnect it.

I dont get that error on your url.  I get a big blank.

Who made a stink over the Mod's not being able to answer whats wrong?

Are any of the mods gonna chime in on this one?  What's up now?

I'm sure they know there is a problem since it is affecting Servers 2, 3 and 4 that I know of.  SMFFF mentioned trying something new/testing on the servers but not sure when he was planning on it.

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When entering my URL, nothing shows up.