Quote Originally Posted by Ironlung View Post
Again, Hostboard sucks. First, lets not tell anyone it's happening and just take the site down for a month or two. Then let's bring it back up, but change the address, and don't tell anyone what the new address is. Then after we get you going again, get ready for little spurts of the site being down that can last a few hours or a week. Hell of a way to run a ****ing business.
Site down for a month or two? We did run into sever loading issues a few months prior to rolling out the current platform which made the site very latent. This is why we pushed so hard to move to the current platform. Unlike previous HB versions this one was written from the ground up using zero code from previous versions. The new software is highly optimized and very modular with debugging code allowing us to pin point any issues as we can now see every process as it is preformed. This modularity also will allow us to add more functionality (lots of stuff planned) without the need to re-code the software so anything new will be introduced in a much shorter time frame. As for the URL issue we ran into a problem when we ported. The old site already did the re-writes and we honestly overlooked this on the new site. We did however fix it once we realized the issue. So now old URLs should work as well. Once we went live with the new site which while was done we really were not intending on releasing it for another week so we could better prepare but felt that becuase of the latency of the old site it was imoparative to make the move. We took 72 hours to move over 1.8 million posts, almost a quater of a million user IDs and had to make it all work. So yea it took us a bit...

As for "Hell of a way to run a ****ing business." Well, I am not a business. I am 1 person who has a neat hobby. Who spends countless hours and thousands of dollars to try and build a nice stopping place on the internet. Do we make mistakes? Big time. Do we learn from our mistakes. Absolutly. Do we make those mistakes again. Sometimes. Do we openly admit those mistakes? yep.

Oh another ooppss was search... yes we had issues with that. The old site it worked but was plain slow. The new site, was well slow also although testing showed it was satisfactory (not the best it could be but it worked) So we scrambled and implented a brand new back end for the search function. And it is now night and day. More or less some quick research and throwing some more money at the problem and poof away it went. So again dedicated to the point that we will do what it takes even if it costs.

But I can say this itiration of HB was months in the making. Countless hours of testing coupled with well over 100 man hours of coding. I can honestly say the site is rock solid and the software is preforming perfectly. We are excited about being able to add more functionality in the near future.

So, if you guys want to move, no harm no foul as if I was a member I too would be a tad bit fustrated based on the last few months of on going problems. But the new site loads much faster, we have a lead developer who for the first time has been able to code from the ground up and not have to deal with legacy code adn the site is running very smoothly.

If there are any other issues you are having please let us know and they will be addressed asap.

As always feed back both good and bad are appreciated.