Semi-Dedicated Hosting + Access problems

We have officially switched to semi-dedicated hosting! Adsense seems to be bringing in enough for us to upgrade. Hopefully this continues in the future. Thanks for all your support and for visiting our sponsors.

There has been some problems with the server's DNS. Apparently after the move, many of us can rarely ever access gen7accord.net. This has been fixed and I believe we can all access it normally now.

Thanks for your patience and understanding! Post away!

(semi) Stability at last

Hi Everyone! The site has been going up and down for the last couple of days, sorry for all the craziness. I've been working hard at figuring out the problems with our bulletin board scripts destroying our host's servers. But I was unable to get down to the bottom of it. Finally I decided to bite the bullet and upgraded to a semi-dedicated server. This means we are sharing our server with one other person, such that we'll have plenty of space, bandwidth, cpu usage, and memory! So prepare for uptime just like before.

Our new host plan costs 5 times more. Please help support the club by visiting the advertisers that are interesting to you! It's really the best way to help support, by not ignoring the ads and taking a look =).

Cheers to a new age of Gen7Accord!

Update on AdSense and Donations

Firstly, I'd like to thank the awesome community here at Gen7Accord for all the support and patience while our forum goes through a few changes.

AdSense

As you know we've recently implemented some revenue generating advertisements, namely Google's AdSense advertisements. This is not to make money, but to support the costs of the forum.

As we grow bigger, the hosting plans we use for our website need to be upgraded. Once we get stable support, we will be upgrading to a dedicated server.

For now, be easy on View New Posts and Searching, and visit our advertisers that look interesting to you. The more visits through our banner to our advertisers, the more effective the advertisements will be for supporting the forum.

Donations

Thanks to everyone for the donations. It has really helped me personally in keeping up with the cost of the club. As you know, I pay for all our fees personally, and these donations really help me out. Please don't be pressured to donate, but I just wanted to send a thank you out to all those who have. If you can't donate, help support us by visiting our advertisements if they seem interesting to you =)


Ups and Downs

While we're going through this adsense + higher server loads, you may see our host take down the site often. Please just check back, no need to IM timot one etc to see what's going on ;) I'm also moving this blog over to blogger.com so that it's always going to be available even if gen7accord.net goes down.


Thanks again!

Downtime Again

Well we've experienced yet another down day. This really sucks as the start of a new month. I talked to the host, and they said we had too many simultaneous database queries. It's always something new, they're always finding ways to try to get us to pay more.

I will limit our database queries for awhile, so you may see a message that says: "MySQL Error: Too many simultaneous queries". If that's the case, just relax and try again a minute or two later. This will keep us from completely shutting down.

Given people don't completely ignore the advertisements and click on interesting ones, we'll be generating enough money to upgrade our servers soon.

Thanks again!