Let's hear it for Tom "Drakino" Cramer, new host of the Unnofficial Empeg BBS!

Thanks for rescuing us in our Hour Of Need.

And the crowd goes wild!!! Thanks!!!

And there was much rejoycing!

-Zeke

Yes much thanks to Tom for taking this, and for his quick and capable change over.

Yes, thanks Tom!

So Paul, does this make your life any easier now?

Need I add anything?

Cheers, Drakino!

So.. is the next step moving the URL of the BBS to something more appropriate, like www.riocar.org/bbs or bbs.riocar.org or something like that?

Edit: Changed "forum" to "bbs".

The next step is to leave the URL exactly as-is so that the rest of the internet doesn't have to update their links.

There is already an existing top-level DNS name that points to the empeg BBS that's even more logical than the ones you suggested: www.empegbbs.com . That one has already been fixed to point here.

1.1

I mean 2.0

I mean, well, umm, anyhow. Yes, the next long ways away step is to merge the two sites somehow. I started looking into it, and found a few other people doing similar things over on the Infopop boards. My goal is to keep them somewhat seperate (no need for a ton of clutter on the sides of the screen here), but have the user databases merged and such.

Thanks for giving us a home in a time of need.

Sean

no need for a ton of clutter on the sides of the screen here

My thoughts exactly. Thanks Tom! I am on 56k NetZero right now and it feels snappier (sp?) than my DSL and T1 at work. Excellent!

I have noticed an amazing speed increase here today. I'm at home on DSL; it used to take about 3 seconds for a page to load, and now I don't even have time to blink. Is the server somewhere on the east coast?

The change was so quick I didn't even notice!

Thanks also to PaulH for the several years of hosting. Word.

Hear! Hear! (There! There!) Aside from a brief DNS nap, I'd hardly notice.

Thanks to Tom and Paul....and to the many folks who kicked around options...the thread on "what to do" was heartening to read, BBS-wise. Tom. if there's a small hardware bit that I could help with -- underwrite (disk drive? ) give a yell.

Things do seem do be a tiny bit zippier here on the left coast...I hope that folks now farther removed are not getting just the sleepy packets.

That "Old Hand" label is gone (sniff!), but I should be thankful for any chance to dump anything "old" overboard.

And ....Hmmm, perhaps this server shift was a cathartic....maybe other old things and any bad juju has been left behind.