UK FTO owners club Website

heathy12 · Post by **heathy12** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:00 am

Just thought i'd post up here as I see that quite a lot of the UK owners are surfing this Forum.

Whats going on with the UK owners club Forum, its been down for quite a few days now.

Anyone know anything??!

TheDigitalPimP · Post by **TheDigitalPimP** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:07 am

Not sure when the UK site will be back.

Pom's Are Back!

The DB has been successfully moved to the new host, Ben is uploading addtional files, and waiting for the DNS to be switched (which can take up to 24 hours)

This was on Tuesday this week so I guess there has been some technicalities which are holding things up.

Ben... if you read this keep at it dude! I hope the FTOOC is going to be better than ever with the new hosts!

Thanks to all you guys n girls down under for putting up with us all!

shue · Post by **shue** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:36 am

do we have a choice

and now for our genorisity we all get member status in the ftooc for free. bah wishful thinking

Aweb · Post by **Aweb** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:06 am

shue wrote:do we have a choice and now for our genorisity we all get member status in the ftooc for free. bah wishful thinking

I think some of you should but very unlikely

shue · Post by **shue** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:14 am

lol its all good aweb. im jkin

i guess u guys are welcome to come around here

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:03 am

i guess u guys are welcome to come around here

Only if they bring the beer!

SchumieFan · Post by **SchumieFan** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:08 am

*kiwi runs to get a couple-hundred-dozen*

setiuk · Post by **setiuk** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:48 am

The DB has been successfully moved to the new host, Ben is uploading addtional files, and waiting for the DNS to be switched (which can take up to 24 hours)

The simple answer would have been to have backed up the entire forum THEN waited for the DNS to become live THEN uploaded the files (about a 30 minute operation). Back on-line with a max of 24 hours. Looks like they have done it arse-about-face and are facing the consequences - and if the forum hasn`t been backed up properly - well..............................

An index page giving an update wouldn`t have gone amiss either - can be done with Dreamweaver in about 30 seconds flat.

Aweb · Post by **Aweb** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:40 pm

setiuk wrote:
The DB has been successfully moved to the new host, Ben is uploading addtional files, and waiting for the DNS to be switched (which can take up to 24 hours)
The simple answer would have been to have backed up the entire forum THEN waited for the DNS to become live THEN uploaded the files (about a 30 minute operation). Back on-line with a max of 24 hours. Looks like they have done it arse-about-face and are facing the consequences - and if the forum hasn`t been backed up properly - well..............................

An index page giving an update wouldn`t have gone amiss either - can be done with Dreamweaver in about 30 seconds flat.

I dont think you would be saying this if you knew a little more about the situaton.

TheDigitalPimP · Post by **TheDigitalPimP** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:49 pm

Aweb wrote:I dont think you would be saying this if you knew a little more about the situaton.

Dweeb, tell us what do you know?

Aweb · Post by **Aweb** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:22 pm

i spose it depends which forum you hang out on

setiuk · Post by **setiuk** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:07 am

I dont think you would be saying this if you knew a little more about the situaton.

Considering I not only run my own website and forum I do know something about them and how then run. Either they are having problems with their ISP or the forum is corrupt. They have a page here:
http://www.ftooc.org/
so why has it not been updated with some information? Like I said, 30 seconds with Dreamweaver would solve the problem and at least let people know they were experiencing problems - a little information goes a long way.
Simple really.

Hellboy · Post by **Hellboy** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:51 am

Seeing as the UK forum is down I need to ask a question:-

Is it only Camskill that sell the Window Guides (cant find them anywhere else) as Â£8 P&P seems a bit excessive for such a small item?

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:55 am

That price sounds about right for a geniune part. You do not need to replace them though, remove the guides and tap them lightly with a hammer to close the gap and stop the rattle. Be gentle.

Hellboy · Post by **Hellboy** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:11 am

They're actually Â£17 for a pair and Â£8 post and packing - and I need to replace one as it fell off yesterday because the plactic had split!!

Aweb · Post by **Aweb** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:19 am

setiuk wrote:
I dont think you would be saying this if you knew a little more about the situaton.
Considering I not only run my own website and forum I do know something about them and how then run. Either they are having problems with their ISP or the forum is corrupt. They have a page here:
http://www.ftooc.org/
so why has it not been updated with some information? Like I said, 30 seconds with Dreamweaver would solve the problem and at least let people know they were experiencing problems - a little information goes a long way.
Simple really.

again you have missed the point. You dont know the details of the situation with the ftooc so all you can do is make assumptions. I think you need to settle down. You know the problems we've been having with current host. and it has made it extremely difficult to backup/transfer the database and files and then make fixes to the database for the new site.

its hardly plonk and drop is it

Yes i agree the front page should have been updated but its should be online in a couple of days once dns has replicated...

TheDigitalPimP · Post by **TheDigitalPimP** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:28 am

Hellboy wrote:Is it only Camskill that sell the Window Guides (cant find them anywhere else) as Â£8 P&P seems a bit excessive for such a small item?

If Camskill haven't got any get them from your local mitsy dealer. Camskill only make Â£0.70p on these and they buy them from mitsy!
So for a change its cheaper to get them from mitsy directly! My mitsy garage got them for me in 24hrs.

Jinksy · Post by **Jinksy** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:04 am

Site should be up and running soon - hopefully over the weekend. We've been testing it out over the last couple of days and it is much faster (well it was with just a few of us on

) so hope you like it when it's back!

Script Daddy has run into all sorts of problems which he has feverishly been trying to fix - so hats off to him for all the time he's put in over the last 5 days.

setiuk · Post by **setiuk** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:03 am

Site should be up and running soon - hopefully over the weekend. We've been testing it out over the last couple of days and it is much faster (well it was with just a few of us on ) so hope you like it when it's back!

Script Daddy has run into all sorts of problems which he has feverishly been trying to fix - so hats off to him for all the time he's put in over the last 5 days.

Thanks for the update Jinksy - at least now we know. We look forward to seeing the forum back on-line.

TheDigitalPimP · Post by **TheDigitalPimP** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:26 am

Were back online! But I can't sign in... other folk are logged on.

Anyone else having trouble or is it just me???

EDIT:

I'M IN!!!!!