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ORIGINAL: sbr
Hey mike...what is pod anyway?
by the way, cool site.

P.O.D. is a band. Their song, " Youth of The Nation" is the #1 Modern Rock single in the nation right now. You' ve probably heard their song " Alive" .

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Check out TheSouthtown.com for all your P.O.D. info.

ya, sbr, where are you from?

cool site..I love POD too!!

how long have your forums been up and running?

just curious

I' ve had them up for almost a month. Since 3/13/2002 to be specific.

I came to this forum simply looking for info about your forum software (which looks excellent, by the way). However I was very intrigued when you mentioned that you' d lost all your data when your web host got hacked. I was surprised that this wasn' t front-page news in eWeek or something (not that I read that rag much anymore) I did a Google search, there was very little and no articles from any real publications. If you could expand on that story, I' m sure lots of us would like to hear the details.

I also followed your suggestion and liked what I saw at Gearhost. But be warned... another search located some serious issues about this company. Apparently the founded ran a previous hosting co, whose sole connection to the web was actually a DSL line in his apt, and soon went under. Many users who paid in advance feel they were ripped off and haven' t gotten their money back. I don' t know the validity of the claims, I' m just reporting what' s out there. There are some interesting threads here and here. Gearhost has some defenders, they say the guy' s got his act together. Other people think this guy is the scum of the earth. You decide...

Dear Guest,

Our previous host was Readyhosting.com. Their servers got hacked this January -Feburary, and we tried to contact them several times about the downtime we had experienced around that time frame (we didn' t know they were hacked...we thought they just simply lost their web server for other reasons e.g disk failure or something)

We didn' t receive any response from them after several weeks and we couldn' t even connect to our SQL server properly with EM. It was lucky that we did our own backup before they lost their SQL server with DTS so we only lost some of the newer data.

After about a month of no response, I got an e-mail from them saying their servers (several SQL servers + a few web servers) were hacked and they were working hard everyday trying to get things back to normal. If you are a regular visitor to their website, you will know what I am talking about here. They simply left their SQL servers unattended until some angry customers' emails really got on their nerves (this is a pure speculation). The truth is: they didn' t even do back up on a weekly basis. Cheap company + Cheap support

The reason I recommend gearhost is because of their price. If memory serves me right, I only said they can run the forum (I didn' t remember I recommend them, but correct me if I am wrong).

Thank you for your input and I think this post will be beneficial to everyone who is currently looking for afforable SQL hosts.

By the way, if you want to see the e-mail Readyhosting sent me, I can dig that out for you too.

Thanks again.


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Samuel Chou
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By the way, this is the host we are using now:

www.terrasite.com

Pretty good from what I have seen so far

Caught this thread sorted by most replies.

My Forum link is below in my Signature. Not live yet since I don't have a main page. Just been sorting out the Forum itself. I will have an E-commerce site to sell wedding Supplies as well.

I set up Samuel's forum initially for a Client (I do web design- but decided it's best to build my OWN sites <g>):

Mystery Shopping Forum

SigmaChat integration is on both sites and custom graphics work. I will be working on medits tweaks to display forum aspects outside the Forum next for my main page.

There arent many URL's entered, so I thought I better get back on topic ;-)

www.frontpagewebmaster.com

Not too many custom additions, but will do at the end of the product life. Unless I change to .net
We're hosted/sponsored via Appliedi.net and Im more than happy with them.

Here's our forum http://www.liverpool.is/Forum/.

It's been translated to icelandic and is currently the most popular soccer forum in Iceland.

We're hosted by an icelandic company. We haven't gotten around to use any of the mods that are available.

I'm still just tinkering with my forum, awaiting the media gallery before I do much more to it. It will be a site where my friends can read my hiking journals and more easily keep up with my backpacking excursions. In addition, I'll be setting up journals for other hiker friends and some general backpacking subjects. I haven't even settled on a title and there's no content, but check it out: www.bayloafer.com

As to web hosts, let me suggest www.crystaltech.com they are the best I've seen in years of trying them all. Their support is similar to Samuels. Meaning the best, of course.

As to web hosts, let me suggest www.crystaltech.com they are the best I've seen in years of trying them all. Their support is similar to Samuels. Meaning the best, of course.

I agree. I have 5 sites at CrystalTech and they are a well oiled machine. You get access to pretty much everything via their control panel.

here is my URL:
http://www.vivazoo.com/forums


Jerome

I have a "Members Only" forum HERE.
It's hosted on readyhosting.com.