Our very own MCF server

[Admin]

Welcome to the new MCF server everybody!!

Initially wanted to do a banner showing some fireworks to commerate the opening of our very own MCF server... But too lazy so you guys/gals can use your imagination instead.

We are now on our very own MCF server. Apologies to everyone who had to endure our ups and downs over the past 1-2 months. Our ex-hosting provider have a lot of hardware issues on their side, which up to now, they still have not ironed out. The worst thing is that everytime after an outage, some tables and files go missing or get corrupted and I have to recover from a previous backup, resulting in missing stuff here and there. Good luck to them and their remaining clients...

With our own server, I can finally do some tweaking and enhancement to the underlying system itself for better performance. So hopefully you can all notice a speedup in the serving of the forum pages. Since our new server has lots of space, I have also tweaked the forum to accept attachments of up to 384kb(from 256kb).

I have carefully chosen a new host who is located at 1Net, home of Singapore One, so for those of you at home on broadband, that means even faster connection to our server.

I am now hopeful that this should mean an end to all our recent outages. Baring any unforseen events, we should now have a stable forum. So no more deja vu. No more matrix.

For the future, since we are no more restrict by our harddisk size, I intend to slowly add on more stuff. But I am going to keep everyone in suspense. So stay tuned folks.

And lastly for those of you out there who are curious, these are our current statistics which I got from our ex-host (in case you think hosting MCF on a virtual hosting plan previously was easy).
Forum database size + attachements : Around 1.5GB (excluding any backups)
Total postings made : 550,000+ (including those deleted)
Monthly hits : 7.5 million
Monthly pageviews : About a million.
Monthly data transfer : 100 GB
Can't compare to any big forums out there but we are not so small ourselves...

All comments and suggestions on how to further improve the forum, pls do so here.
http://www.mycarforum.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=557102

Enjoy and thank you everyone!

P.S. For technical follks only... I did read some posting on other forums from concerned users who believe that our forum is CGI-based and suggested that I switch to a PHP forum. Well let me assure you that it is not. Although the extension is .cgi, I am actually running off mod_perl, which is somewhat equivalent to php. Edited June 21, 2004 by Admin