I tried the site yesterday and no joy! Today has the same results anyone hear anything?

Most probably the server that needs a reset. If that becomes impossible from a distance it depends on who pushes the button when.

I figured so much but with as quiet as the traffic has been lately I thought I"d ask.

It was up briefly (a few hours) Monday morning.

I had been afraid when it went dark last week that it was more than mere coincidence that it went down hard on its 10th anniversary.

Fortunately, it seems like coincidence is all it is.

Still down.
Hope it's not a hack job, or Frugal's host going bust.

I believe this is the longest it has been down. Must be several Frugalets going insane by now.

Still Down. The world feels unbalanced.

Smoke

Kinda compels ya to dig into yur wallet and make a donation to support when it comes back online... does for me anywyas...........

And what about this tired ol' place ?
Probably need to drop a dime or two here as well !
Seems important to have such places when one by one they disappear, dont'cha think ?

Or maybe thats just me................

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

It is important and it's not just you. Some of us need to be reminded though.


Thanks
Smoke

Aint like I'm some philanthropic do-gooder or anything......

Hell I'm a Jewish New Yorker when it comes to gettin off some coin !
But I gotta say, I've seen some fine Sites lost over the years.... some were loaded with Great Knowledge of Falcon posting regular in post boards... offering downloads of the patches and such...
In all, Great contributions to the Community !

I am MORE than guilty of taking these places for granted, and browse them at least once daily....
Finding the latest break-thru, or mod.... Scuttle-Butt... occasional good natured ribbing of someone, or the descent joke.... news of the day, ect....

Damned if I wouldnt REALLY Miss Frug's, and Here as well !
Time to Belly-Up to the Bar, and tip the host I feel.... for me anyways....

Just Sayin"...............
8)

More than several I can easily presume.

Damn...

I sent him a message and he writes that he is upgrading the server. He is also moving the server to a new location. Expects it to be up in a few days.

Good news for sure!

Does anybody have a local copy of the instructions with pics of the speedbrake/dogfight switch cougar mod. I did the throttle mod last weekend without instructions and a little help from Ian -- and thankfully there were a few sites with pictures of the mod. But I can't find any instructions for the switch mod and I seem to recall needing a specific alignment, but I don't know what that is. With Frugal's being down, I'm getting impatient.

Thanks!

It's baaaaaaack

Its gone again

Back but ssssssssssslllllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww.

down again.

When will it become reliable already?

Still, I suppose it's good for SimHQ because that means that I actually hang out here now.

Me2!

Frugals will come back,wont it?

Surprised Mark doesn't post an update here. Would be a good way to get some information out directly.

Has anyone tried contacting him directly?

I am sure many are in direct contact with him on this matter.
Unfortunately, it seems they want to keep the communication private.

Whatever case it may be, all we can do at the moment is just waiting, isn't it?

I got a message from him about a week ago:

Quote

Original server was only up temporarily to access the files. Having some complications moving to the new server because the size of the database. Slim chance we may need to restore forums from quite an old backup as current and recent ones are throwing up errors. Worst case scenario we will lose about 2 years of forum posts and registrations.
Frug

Let`s hope he manage to do a full recovery of the server in the new location.
Frugal is a very busy person these days, so we need to be patient.

LOL I didn't think I went to Frugals that much, but now it feels like something's broke on this ol' pooter since it went down.

Dang! 2 years of knowledge down the drain.

What will become of those OF vs FF vs AF posts?

All an elaborate ruse to steal my Frubles..... just like last time we had a "Conversion" # FW !!!!!



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

Yeah, and come to think of it, my reputation skyrocketed just prior to this new "conversion"

Easy come easy go, mate

Damn..what a loss it all will be really...

who cares about the AF posts. What will happen to the thong thread?

Can you say "Thong" at SimHQ?

Not to worry mate.
Refurbishing that thread is an easy part. In no time, better than ever.

hehe.........if you build it, they will come............

+1
Something's really missing.

Wow if they lost 2 years of registrations and posts there is a TON of information on there for us Cougar owners that would just go POOF!

Then somethong would really be wrong.

As for the thong thread as someone else said...easily fixed in just a few short posts.

The thong thread was mine and shall remain closed until I am allowed to rejoin that board.

Damnit Mower bout time you showed up.

We're currently rehosting Cougar World at http://www.cougar.flyfoxy.com/ although I still need to fix some links, and we don't have all the user files as they were saved on a different server ;(

It's the information in the forums that I want to grab though ...

Nutty

I'm always around by one name or another.

At this point, I would be lying if I said that Frug's board's demise made me entirely unhappy.

The only critical aspect of it is the Cougar resources as James said he is trying to salvage.

Is Frugals down for the count, James?


Thank you for rehosting Cougarworld--it is a relief to see it again! Any luck with getting the forums? They are the heart and soul of it all.

No I'm hoping that Mark will get in touch with either myself or Olivier, but so far we've heard nothing. Not much else we can do at this stage I'm afraid

Cheers

James

On another note anyone searching for Vista drivers for the Cougar, they are here:

http://ts.thrustmaster.com/eng/index.php?pg=view_files&gid=1&fid=3&pid=50&cid=1

I'll update CW this week with these.

Cheers

Nutty

Ok guys here is an update.

The server was moved and it seems the machine it was moved onto was simply not up to the job. I now need to upgrade to a new server which is going to cost an extra 50 bucks a month. However the time it is going to take to rebuild the server is the main issue. On the good news front as far as I can tell the forum backup is intact and so we should not lose any forum posts, at worst we will lose 24 hours worth.

For those that don't know I am a single parent to my 3 children these days. I also work full time. This means that the web site, although very dear to my heart, is quite low priority. It does not help that as the server went down my ex decided that she wants to try to get the house. Fortunately the kids told her outright that they don't want to live with her, they want to stay with me. This has meant that she has dropped the idea of getting custody (for now). As you can imagine it's been a very tough few weeks, actually it's been a very tough year.

My main focus in the very short term is spending this weeks school holiday with my kids at our caravan in Clacton. My next focus is going to be trying to secure my house for my kids future. My ex is willing to sign it over to me now so that she can get a place off the council but that is going to be costly and pointless if she can still take the house (or rather force me to sell it) as part of the divorce settlement.

In the background I will be trying to get the site back online particularly for the hosted sites like Cougar World and eBattalion, the latter of which I am very concious of how important it is to the people that use it while their loved ones are deployed.

FW has had a good run over the last 10 years and I don't intend it to end here, but it is going to be a bumpy road for a while.

Frugal

Frugal, I have a One and One Dual-Core XL Server ... it should be more than enough to host FW and its content. Give me a shout if you need a hand mate.

Nutty

James, what kind of BW does it have? It's also worth pointing out that FW was able to bring dual xeon server with 2 gigs of ram to its knees. Site is also currently around 80 gigs in size.

Frugal

Just had a look at 1 and 1, good servers for the money. If they offered cpanel instead of plesk and had more than 1 IP address it would be worth switching. Be a pig to move to a plesk server, moving to a cpanel server will be far easier (but still a pig).

Frugal

Bandwidth is 100Mbit/sec and unlimited traffic bud

Hardware is Opteron 1218 HE, 2 x 2.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 2 x 400 GB HD (RAID 1 Software)

Windows 2008 Server with Plesk 9. But yes, only one IP address.

Well if it's somewhere to throw the forums onto, or whatever, give me a shout.

Cheers

James

Definately no good if it's a windows server, moving from cpanel to plesk would be a nightmare but moving from unix to a windows server would be far too much work in my current situation. But I really do appreciate the offer.

Frugal

No worries bud. Good luck with everything!

Cheers

James

Mark, with everything you have to deal with that is of so much consequence for those dear to you, it's amazing that you can even think about options for FW. And work full time as well. Good luck - you know thousands of simmers are rooting for you and yours.

Pity that all the works has to be done by Mark himself alone.

Like the Cougar thing, perhaps we need a temporary forum space as a contingency task force HQ or whatever for the Frugalites who are willing to offer some helping hands or make suggestions?

Sorry to hear about all that has been happening in your life Mark. I hope it all works out for the best in the end.

I, along with thousands of others (I'm sure), really appreciate all that you have done for all of us over the years so selflessly. Frugals has done wonders for the Flight Sim community. We know it'll be back sometime when you have time, no worries about hurrying. It seems you have quite a lot right now on your plate.

Thanks for the update.

I echo Blastman, hang in there Mark, hope everything works out for you.

Best of luck Mark. Here's hoping that the life matters sort out for the better for all involved.. The web-site can always be worked on at a later date..and you have a loyal following, so I wouldn't be worried about the members being patient.

Regards..
BeachAV8R

Mark,

I can only imagine the pressure on you right now. I respect and agree with your priorities. Take your time, and I hope everything works out for you and the kids.

I'm definitely gonna try to donate when Frugal gets it back up, and I'll be sure to click on all the ads lol

Hang in there, Mark!

Thanks for the update Mr Frugal - I really hope it all works out for you - and glad to see you have your priorities in order!

Mark, I wish there was some way I could help you, Maybe a place to send Donations to, maybe this would help with server cost or any cost you maybe experiencing. Let us know if you have some place to send them to maybe a paypal account...



hang in there

Mark, all the best, in you personal life and with FW. You're absolutely right about priorities. Do what you need to do and of course we hope that FW gets back ASAP.

Here's to ten more years at FW!

If FW never comes back but Mark maintains his Sanity (life is FAR more important than these games we play)... I'm all OK with that.

Hey Mark,

Sorry to hear the bad news.
Take care of your kids and keep cool.

Puma257 Talons

Sorry to hear of your misfortune as well and miss hanging out at FW as the other regulars do. Hope everything works out. All my best wishes to you and yours...

Jackal

Man I am so glad that the Cougar World stuff got transferred somewhere so we would not be without that information.

Lastly Mark if there is anything that we can do once you get up and running to make it smoother for you just let us know.

Thanks again for helping out and keeping us informed.

Will

Mark,

I just found this thread. I have been there, done that. Take care of the important family things first, it's a long exhausting road but it will get better. I look forward to CW opening again, but will patiently wait.

Hang in there!!

Gunner

I am really not sure this is proper thing to say here under the circumstances but maybe..just maybe some of us can do a little bit more than just being patient in waiting for good news from him? Maybe Mark doesn't want any help or support..I don't know, I am just thinking.

Hi Frugal,

Sorry to hear about your current problems. Its been a while since I was a regular never mind multi-daily visitor to the F4 forum (and in the past the current affairs forum) as alas life has left me virtually no time to play games but I occasionally still pop in to see what's happening in the hopes of one day actually having time to load the last couple of versions of OF and FF and it will be strange to think of F4 without being able to see the usual suspects posting. However real life is always more important and hopefully you can sort out your family situation soon and only when thats done worry about if you want to relaunch the site.

Good luck and best wishes,

Opener

Even if he neither wants or needs, I am sure he appreciates the offers and well wishes.

Hi Mark thanks for the update , i am sure Frugals will be up when its ready,
looking forward to a beer with ya in the Bar