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Old 10-20-19, 12:28 AM
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Old 10-20-19, 08:18 AM
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Old 10-20-19, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by verktyg
If you like velobase, make a donation via Paypal,
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Done. Glad to see it's back. Everybody should chip in.
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Old 10-20-19, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by cuda2k
To this day we still get mixed up.
Just recently stepped into that particular prairie dawg hole myself, your C&V doppelgänger was kind when I did......

Thanks once more for keeping the flame lit, headed to make a donation shortly.

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Old 10-21-19, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by jeirvine
Done. Glad to see it's back. Everybody should chip in.
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Old 12-10-19, 04:14 AM
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Last few days Velobase is on- and offline? I have quite some trouble getting in contact with the site from The Netherlands? It says that the page has time out or something and that it takes too long to load the page?
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Old 12-10-19, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by LucasHartong
Last few days Velobase is on- and offline? I have quite some trouble getting in contact with the site from The Netherlands? It says that the page has time out or something and that it takes too long to load the page?
Works for me. No trouble timing out or anything.
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Old 12-10-19, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ThermionicScott
Works for me. No trouble timing out or anything.
The fellow who created and maintains the site recently got a new computer. No idea if that's responsible for some down-time or not.
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Old 12-11-19, 01:30 PM
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The fellow who created and maintains the site recently got a new computer. No idea if that's responsible for some down-time or not.
Could well be. It's still not working optimal.
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Old 01-02-20, 05:14 PM
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Same message as I got today.
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Tagging @cuda2k in case he hasn't seen this already. I just got the same error message, the message is similar to what we've used at a couple of different hosting companies I've worked at over the decades when there's a major issue, either with billing or a customer causing technical issues for our equipment and/or other customers.
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I feel bad now that I didnt donate
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The screen shot that shows "This site has stepped out for a bit" came up most of the day along with a message in the tab that stated "Site Suspended". I just tried it a few minutes ago and V-B came up just fine so perhaps the problem has been resolved.
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Old 01-04-20, 07:17 PM
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Spent the better part of my morning telling my webhost how totally unacceptable it was that they brought my site down with no warning. They claimed they had sent me an email a week ago (OVER THE HOLIDAYS?!?!), but I never received that, and only read the email sent on the 2nd this morning. VeloBase.com should be back up again. I want to thank those that have donated recently, I have gotten a number of very generous donations in the last few months. Never fear, VeloBase.com isn't going anywhere, and I am starting work on changing web hosts so this doesn't happen again.

And if your'e wondering, they suspended my account because I had a backup of VeloBase.com from a couple years ago, and a backup of my wife's coffee blog on the hosting account, well below the 'account maximum disk space', and they said it wasn't an appropriate use of the hosting space. WTF.
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Old 01-05-20, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cuda2k
And if your'e wondering, they suspended my account because I had a backup of VeloBase.com from a couple years ago, and a backup of my wife's coffee blog on the hosting account, well below the 'account maximum disk space', and they said it wasn't an appropriate use of the hosting space. WTF.
GoDaddy? Where in the TOS do they have a policy of no backups? Sounds like poppycock.

I'm on Namecheap myself now. Server access performance is sometimes spotty, but at least my Wordpress-based pages work decent on their servers.

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Still can't beat Dreamhost, honestly. Granted, I'm grandfathered in under my ancient reseller package but ... my offer for free LAMP hosting stands, although may not be a good fit for your needs.

If you want to relocate to Dreamhost with a more tailored package supporting .NET and other things VeloBase may use etc, LMK. EDIT: I can give referral links that will reduce hosting rates, and can toss out a coupon code I used to have that would drop Unlimited Hosting rates below $2/mo for the 1st year. PM for details. (offer is open to anyone interested if you need it)

Besides their low domain registration services, one-click-install options, the sensible cpanel they're using, prices are reasonable, uptime is virtually infinite. Thinking back over 10 years, can't recall a single maintenance interruption which has been great. I only had one case where an update to a cpanel page removing Google Sites integration caused a small DNS headache (MX related) I was able to quickly resolve with no email lost.

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Old 01-05-20, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by cuda2k
Spent the better part of my morning telling my webhost how totally unacceptable it was that they brought my site down with no warning. They claimed they had sent me an email a week ago (OVER THE HOLIDAYS?!?!), but I never received that, and only read the email sent on the 2nd this morning. VeloBase.com should be back up again. I want to thank those that have donated recently, I have gotten a number of very generous donations in the last few months. Never fear, VeloBase.com isn't going anywhere, and I am starting work on changing web hosts so this doesn't happen again.

And if your'e wondering, they suspended my account because I had a backup of VeloBase.com from a couple years ago, and a backup of my wife's coffee blog on the hosting account, well below the 'account maximum disk space', and they said it wasn't an appropriate use of the hosting space. WTF.
It's working now. I hope it stays that way.

You rock! We salute you!
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You rock! We salute you!
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And if your'e wondering, they suspended my account because I had a backup of VeloBase.com from a couple years ago, and a backup of my wife's coffee blog on the hosting account, well below the 'account maximum disk space', and they said it wasn't an appropriate use of the hosting space. WTF.
(ahem) Coffee blog? Do tell...
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Originally Posted by SurferRosa
Cue the AC/DC.
I was going to post the Disturbed cover of "The Sounds of Silence" but then the site came back.
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Bringing this thread back rather than making a new one - to anyone who saw VeloBase down today, it's back and running. That was my doing as I was deploying the first new build in probably 3-4 years. It is the first in an update to reduce the spam/bot problems, and increase overall security. There will be a few more updates to come, but hopefully those will go a bit smoother.

Spent a good portion of the weekend knocking the dust off the code for VeloBase and trying to make some much over-due updates to it. Unfortunately life and other pursuits have pretty much diminished how much time I've got these days to regular updates, but I am committed to maintaining it long term.
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Bringing this thread back rather than making a new one - to anyone who saw VeloBase down today, it's back and running. That was my doing as I was deploying the first new build in probably 3-4 years. It is the first in an update to reduce the spam/bot problems, and increase overall security. There will be a few more updates to come, but hopefully those will go a bit smoother.

Spent a good portion of the weekend knocking the dust off the code for VeloBase and trying to make some much over-due updates to it. Unfortunately life and other pursuits have pretty much diminished how much time I've got these days to regular updates, but I am committed to maintaining it long term.
What an incredible resource. Thank you for keeping this going!
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What an incredible resource. Thank you for keeping this going!
Seconded (thirded? a millionth'ed?)

Also, I sent a few bucks via Paypal. I encourage everyone to do the same.

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