haha. i've been so bored ever since the site went down.

 

i agree, work just isn't the same without this forum

 

Ha! You hit the nail on the head. Since I started frequenting this board my productivity at work is down at least 40%

 

There are some other Z sites... however this is my favorite site!!!

 

Amen

 

so the admins here don't care?

 

I agree.

 

i've been bored too

 

Over the past few days, I've realized how pathetic my online life is without this forum lol.

 

I send a E-MAil to tech@my350z.com

This is what I got back...

..............................
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.my350z.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<tech@my350z.com>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <amy@amycroft.com>
Received: (qmail 10637 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2004 04:53:06 +0000
Received: from unknown (HELO red.amycroft.com) (65.195.187.2)
by 66.230.211.235 with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 04:53:06 +0000
Received: from AMERICA ([65.195.187.20])
by red.amycroft.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i7B4rXv03675
for <tech@my350z.com>; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:53:42 -0700
Message-ID: <000501c47f5f$58305640$14bbc341@amycroft.com>
From: "Amy Croft" <amy@amycroft.com>
To: <tech@my350z.com>
Subject: Down again
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:54:32 -0700
Organization: Amycroft.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441

Down again
There seems to have been a slight problem with the MY350Z.COM Forums
database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also
contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience

.........................

So the Error Message when the Site is hosed

Does Not Work..

Cheers Amy -

 

Ya, i notice other sites really care about their site and will answer posts immediately, if a problem arises

 

Not even the moderators answered my emails asking what was going on with the site. Maybe we should just all move to another site that gives a shift about its members.

 

I won't knock the mods/admin/owner for not responding to individual "Hey, the site is down" emails. If they did, that's all they would do all day long.

I do fault them for not having the ambition to put any type of monitoring/notification system in place to a) become aware of a problem with the various sections of the site as soon as it occurs, and b) to have the courtesy to update the members which drive the advertising revenue with a simple status/expected uptime of the site.

Being a network engineer for several very large e-commerce websites, I can tell you that in the e-business world, this site is a joke from an operational standpoint. By the standard uptime rating, they haven't even achieved one 9, let alone the 5 9's that most businesses expect.

 

Hmm good idea any suggestions?

 

Until the people who actually pay the bills here (sponsors) start complaining and threating the owner, he's going to do absolutely nothing.

 

^and there are a lot of sponsors on this site. I'm sure they make more than just pay the bills.