Has Ausbonsai got a problem with the Website

[Bretts]

Seems Steven hasn't been on since late November?

[kcpoole]

Seems Steven hasn't been on since late November?

SAurprised with that as work is calming down for him now.

Ken

[Steven]

G'day all,

Sorry about the recent forum problems, my lack of time on AusBonsai and communication about this issue.
My work (which also pays for AusBonsai) has been incredibly busy over the last couple of months due to some very good and bad reasons. I won't bore you with details.

There were some very serious issues with the servers that AusBonsai are hosted on that lasted for 12 + days. We do keep regular back ups but due to the huge size of our database and 55,000 + photos, it is not possible for us to back up daily so we rely on the hosts for this. We were able to revert to our most recent back up which was not corrupted and this is why there is a period of 12 days data missing. We have been working with our web hosts to resolve the problems and try to recover the data. The good news is that it looks like the data has been located. The bad news is that it will take us considerable time to restore.

I'd like to take this opportunity to assure you that AusBonsai is a safe place to post your pictures and record your information. We do everything possible to maintain the security of the site and database. We have a very capable and dedicated team of moderators who log in regularly across the day to keep things in order and keep the riff-raff out.

Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,
Steven

[bodhidharma]

Thanks and well done Steven.

[Pup]

What you are doing is appreciated by myself and many members here, so as Bohdi says, thank you and very Merry Christmas and happy New year, to all of the team.

Pup

[Jason]

Keep up the good work!! From what I've seen in my short time, this place is fantastic!

I've run a website myself before (might have even been hosted on the same platform, as the layout is VERY similar) so I can understand the troubles that come from running a website whilst having a full time job. I had to hand the reigns over when my work life picked up after having the site for a good 4years, so I do appreciate the effort

It doesn't matter in the long run, we've only got one more day left before the end anyway

[Boics]

Awesome post Steven.

Great to hear and a massive Kudos to you for going to the effort to maintain and support this website.
A big thanks to the Mods too for their crucial role in helping to keep this community to such a high standard.

[kcpoole]

Top stuff Steven

ken

[Bonsai4ever]

Good on you Steven, and thanks for the update on the site. Maintaining a site like this is surely a lot of work and a big thank you to the Mods who assist with the day to day maintenance and attention to those of us who drop in once in a while.

Keep up the great work and a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY 2013 That is if the Zombies dont get us tonight.

[alpharipper]

Steven, you have a tough job maintaining a site like this and it is greatly appreciated. I too have a few forum sites and know what you go through.

Thanks again for a great site and good luck in 2013

[reddoggy]

Hi
Have Been Getting this message quite a bit this morning has anybody else had trouble with the pages loading.

"Resource Limit Is Reached
The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.23 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_perl/2.0.6 Perl/v5.10.1 Server at https://www.ausbonsai.com.au Port 80"

[Pup]

I am getting the same message. Also of late I have found the site to be interminably slow, no other sites I do peruse are as slow.

It gets to the point where I just give up and go away.

Cheers Pup

[reddoggy]

Same thing PUP,it is giving me more time to work on my trees,

[Bretts]

I am getting the same message. Also of late I have found the site to be interminably slow, no other sites I do peruse are as slow.

It gets to the point where I just give up and go away.

Cheers Pup

Yes very noticable, I have been meaning to mention this again for days.

[g.raft]

Yep, same message here! And at times the site won't load up at all.....