rapidcossie

Its really starting to ruin PassionFord for me

Since nothing seems to be getting done about it from an admin side of things, I will ask a question.

Is there anything WE as users can do?

Surely there has to be I.T people on here that could help sort things?

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

yeah, its gripping my shit too

rapidcossie

thats not the kinda input im looking for

PT

Thats the thing though, I dont think Petrucci has been online for months. I think he has had a kid or something so cant come on (not my prob tbh) but all the membership/trade money being paid and from what I can see nothing getting done.

I await to be shot down

Charlie Chalk

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rapidcossie

Can pet not be sacked and someone else take over?

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

Guess everyone will have to use this

http://anotherfordforum.freeforums.org/index.php

rapidcossie

Do we all move over there then?

I would move in a second if it ran quickly and smoothly 24-7

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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[FLAME_ SUIT]

I offered FREE access of a suite of professional servers/hosting and super
fast connection in this country about a year ago and it was kindly refused.
(That facility has NOTHING to do with me personally LOL)

Its Pet's site and I suppose its up to him to do with it as he wants !
As he has his own hosting facilities, I guess its easier for him to use that
but I am of the opinion its not quite up to the job as this place has
probably got bigger than was expected. !

IMO, its only going to get worse unless hosting is moved or large
investment is made on new equipment.

Pet has bigger things to worry about at the moment so we should be
patient and await to see what happens.

[/FLAME_SUIT]

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

its pissing me off too.

these are the top forums in the world,most are using vBulletin boards, can we swap over to that as that seems a popular choice.

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3 custom Forum Auto
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4 zeroforum Honda tech
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5 vBulletin Corvette Forum
Chevrolet corvette forum 91587 23243105 164870
6 +2 vBulletin Club RSX
Honda RSX fans forums 77110 14781229 91308
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Forums of the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club 75747 18389156 148509
8 -1 vBulletin Bimmerforums
BMW car brand message boards 61507 10186910 137530
9 +1 Invision S2KI
Honda S2000 owners community 45818 10652825 60200
10 +3 vBulletin LS1 Tech
Chevrolet and GM enthousiasts discussion 37940 6564588 100369
11 +1 ASP Playground Mustang Forums
Ford Mustang owners forum 35764 3778494 75818
12 +7 vBulletin MY350Z
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13 +5 vBulletin Elaborare
Italian car and bike tuning community 32461 10230602 50089
14 +2 vBulletin LS2
General Motors discussion board 32444 8717534 20545
15 +5 vBulletin BMW FAQ
BMW enthusiast Spanish board 31694 3193952 41011
16 -1 vBulletin E46 fanatics
BMW 3-series owners community 30795 6349858 100042
17 +5 vBulletin Houston imports
Houston import race scene forums 30292 6950195 34587
18 -1 custom Hifi Forum
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Jeep message boards 27489 4029098 116832
20 -9 SMF RC web
Racing car forums (in Thai) 26948 2089028 62325
21 +3 vBulletin BMW Club
BMW owners community (in Russian) 25922 3221144 27872
22 +5 vBulletin SRT Forums
Dodge and Chrysler owners community 24603 4771847 56191
23 vBulletin Pirate 4x4
4x4 message boards 24392 6081931 98873
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Porsche owners forums 22852 4441204 55394
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Cars and babes forums 22794 3867731 125324
26 vBulletin EvolutionM
Mitsubishi Lancer enthusiasts Community 22730 4633923 69935
27 -2 vBulletin Ford Trucks
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Ford Mustang fanatics message boards 21381 4848707 39239
29 +2 vBulletin Ferrari Chat
Ferrari fans and owners community 20559 2992618 47498
30 -2 Invision Boostcruising
Steet cruising and automotive forums 20497 3555159 53690
31 -2 vBulletin MTB news
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32 -2 vBulletin IH8MUD
Land Cruiser Forum 19800 2400889 26316
33 vBulletin Tampa Racing
Car racing community 18740 3293569 44329
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Discussion and marketplace about Jeeps 18605 5455628 83483
35 -1 vBulletin Forums Hawaii
Hawaiian automotive community 18232 364791 20944
36 -4 vBulletin S10 forum
Chevrolet S-Series trucks enthousiasts forums 18140 4406806 45288
37 -2 Invision Nissan Silvia
Nissan Silvia owners forums 17913 3088961 33631
38 -2 XMB Corsa Sport
Vauxhall, Opel, and Holden message boards 17758 4302289 23340
39 +4 vBulletin Montreal racing
Car racing in Quebec (in french and english) message boards 17748 4547994 42659
40 -3 zeroforum NICO forums
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41 +8 vBulletin G35 Driver
Nissan G35 enthusiasts community 17008 2154644 54883
42 -4 vBulletin Corral.net
Ford mustang message boards 16559 4865759 99369
43 +1 vBulletin Bimmerfest
BMW owners community 15719 2492175 94250
44 +43 vBulletin Maxima.org
Nissan maxima fanatics forums 15710 4960440 81139
45 -6 vBulletin Volks Zone
UK based Volkswagen Discussion group 15354 1125305 28958
46 vBulletin The Sportbike Network
Motorbike racing and performance forum 14929 3090027 79223
47 -7 vBulletin VA Driven
Virginia automotive ethusiast forum 14487 3238712 27080
48 -3 vBulletin Scoobynet
Subaru Impreza owners community 14102 7035399 72700
49 +6 vBulletin DFWstangs
Ford Mustand discussion forums 14021 3562907 21251
50 -3 vBulletin CamaroZ28.com
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Bay Area Riders Forum 13899 3211019 22298
52 -10 phpBB Passion Ford
Ford message boards 13843 3196858 30384
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54 -4 vBulletin Living With Style
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55 -2 vBulletin LS1
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56 -4 vBulletin M3 Forum
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57 -3 vBulletin SXOC
Nissan 200SX owners club forums 12686 3471972 15311
58 +2 vBulletin Stangnet
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59 vBulletin Mazdas 247
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60 -2 vBulletin MSProtege
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61 +1 custom Supercars
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70 +11 Invision Audisport Iberica
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71 -3 vBulletin 3.8 mustang
Ford mustang owners community 10403 3005701 18234
72 -9 vBulletin 3SI
Mitsubishi 3000GT/Stealth forums 10329 3989114 24297
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jaiscossie

erm yeah cheers for that list read the first 3 then got bored

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

PF should stand for Permanently Fucked


www.PermanentlyFucked.com

Im pmsl @ my own joke

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

pmsl Rad.

dave cos4x4

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jaiscossie

you get the idea though.

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

Sorry Dave

Jay,

iTrader: (4)

m going to hosting it properly in the next few days so should be lot better some trick bits ect

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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©hatter Box

imo this site is going down hill unless some thing is done. To me its not the same site as when I 1st all got here i know its got a lot more people on the site and so on. but this site has not helped it self with some of the rules and mods that look after it. either pet sells it on to some who wants to run this site and wants to much it better or we all fuck off to the rsoc where we all came from before well got here

Lambchop

iTrader: (1)

its a shame like because surfing pf in the eve's SUCKS

fuzzy

i dont understand why its so bad . the e30 bmw owners site im on has 21000 members and is a free site with no gold membership or traders type schemes to bring in cash and has no problems at all with errors or slow loading up.
im glad i dont pay to use this site as id be very pissed of with the performance

Staffi

iTrader: (1)

Now that's what i call NECK on the line Jay..

God help you if it fooks up..............

Ollie MK5 Turbo

Lets hope phpBBV3 Will come and save the day

Jay,

iTrader: (4)

why its as cheap as fuck so when it comes down to it if itgoes tits up then i loose the price of a tank of fuel . and its got all the help it needs diva , rob v. paddy ,pete ect are all doing there bit , and remember its just for fun

Bullett

iTrader: (2)

big up for jay top job over there.

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Like SECS, ive also offered to help out for free if Pet needs a hand, but he isnt interested in anyone else doing anything besides him (understandable TBH) but sadly it does appear that he doesnt have much time to do stuff either, so the net effect is that the site probably doesnt get the input it requires from ANYONE as a result.

Shame really, as the amount of money generated should certainly be more than enough to cover a really fantastic setup if it was hosted by enthusiasts rather than by a businessman, but at the end of the day, if I was Pet, I wouldnt want to give up on an easy source of income TBH either.

PT

Offtopic but who decided to come here in the first place. I know peeps fell out or the site was shite on RSOC BB but did someone say lets go to passionford a little site that is better and 20,000 people said yes

FasterFords

Turbosport always works for me

Didn't Passionford come about because everyone was pissed off with the RSOC being down.

Turbocabbie

I've seen forums grow from having 120 members to 65 thousand and have no doubt that the bandwidth costs of forums pushing lots of traffic is not low. I also work for one of the largest hosting providers in Europe

phpBB is also exceptionally poor for large forums and a search using any popular search engine related to this subject brings up a wide range of tweaks, hacks and modifications both official and unofficial to help this situation, however the fact remains phpBB does not like large forums which is why most run vBulletin

The problem is related to the size of the database associated with the forum and how phpBB writes to it using multiple instances once it becomes a certain size, assuming that nobody else is going to host the forum, the only thing the users can do is reduce the size of the database and how the forum is being hit.... easy way to do this is to reduce the number of 'chat' threads and possibly areas like the muppet room.


http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=iss...ient=firefox-a

Eagle

iTrader: (2)

the last information i received was that pet was porting everything over to vbulletin.
it takes time to move everything across im sure most would love to loose gold memberships and everyone re-register and then it would be the few who moan they have lost post counts etc...

pet has other issues to sort aswell as having a full time job..
let the bloke try to sort things out..

Porkie

iTrader: (1)

oooof!

Porkie

iTrader: (1)

No was only a few at first. Just people like me who used the RSOC daily. Then it grew and grew by the day.

Renton did a thread the other day about the people that registered on the first day

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...318&highlight=

SapphyMike

i didnt think this place was meant to be a source of income?

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Pet runs a hosting company, passionford is one of its clients.

SapphyMike

thats the thing though, it is always mentioned that Pet / Stu make NO money from PF at all.

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Well maybe Pet's company making money isnt classed the same as Pet himself making money???

I havent seen that said so I cant really comment accurately, but someone is certainly earning out of it somewhere along the line.

Stu @ M Developments

iTrader: (12)

Presumably then, when i told you in a topic some time ago that plans were in place to rectify the problem, you have decided i am a liar?

Lambchop

iTrader: (1)

that seems a little harsh Stu!

He did say "seems" as there is nothing obvious to be seen.

Hope you had a great day btw

Turbocabbie

I just want to know how the hell this place is making enough money to cover the bandwidth costs as most forums run a lot more adds to cover the costs from my experience or have someones wallet taking up the slack.

Chip

iTrader: (3)

Have you got a 1998 bandwidths costs catalogue in front of you again mate?

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

iTrader: (1)

As an example I have just been quoted for a site I am constructing .....

£50 per month, 500 gb transfer allocation.

100 POP3 emails

100 gb storage

PHP 4, SQL support.

Choice of Unix servers or Win 2003 server

Multiple traffic feeds via High speed SDSL


They have better options than I have listed too for a bit more cash !

Probably not quite enough for PF but its near enough !