Quote Originally Posted by abousetta View Post
Vai, the difference between you and most people on this forum is that we are not being paid to do anything towards improving forum or stabalizing its functionality. I'm not here to make money, I am here to help and be helped. I can do this at a number of forums. I have gotten used to the landscape here and the nice people who provide answers. Each forum has a handful of faithful followers who (through their knowledge and experience) provide a well-needed and appreciated service. Its up to you (and your team) to provide them with the technical support they deserve to keep helping others. As an example, shg a couple of weeks ago posted a great add-in to convert Excel ranges into html for posting. Did you pay him to share this? Are you paying all the forum Gurus to provide great ideas on how to solve something very difficult problems??? There is no shame is saying that you need help, especially since this forum is thriving. You can easily shut it down for 48 - 72 hours over the weekend (especially since its New Years) and get all the repairs done, but blaming Simon for all your troubles is neither fair nor will be tolerated by all his friends and colleagues at this forum.
Yes you are right abousetta, you are not being paid to do anything to for improvement and i am putting money from my pocket and time and effort to keep the board up and running .. The money we make through the ads which are "only" shown to non registered users is just enough to pay the rising bills of the forum but still i love putting in time and effort because i see the love which we all have towards the forum and there is nothing more valuable than a strong community.
Also have had a discussion with simon and we have been able to sort out the issues amicably between us.

Quote Originally Posted by zbor View Post
I wonder why there is page crash on hourly basis (like this)? Will that dissapear ever?
zbor its because the attachments of thie board are being converted from DB to files and the process is taking up a lot of the servers capacity. The bad thing is that it just failed and we have restarted the process with lesser number of conversions per cycle so that the process get completed this time.