Down time, traffic, and popularity

SO yes, as some of you noticed there was some down time the first part of today, due to a billing error (nothing we could do about it). Normally the host company is quick to respond to things, but this time they took awhil.

Some of you did remember the Facebook site, which is good. It's funny tho, the downtime brought me no fewer than 20 text messages to my phone, and a dozen or so instant messages to my computer. Many of them within an hour or so. It's nice to know that when we're down (which is rare), we are missed :P

On that note, I'd like to mention a few trends we've been noticing. Traffic for C-S12 has been up for the past few months, and new signups are happening daily. Many of these new signups are also taking the time to introduce themselves, too, which is great. I noticed that some of the new signups are from nations on the eastern hemisphere, and I would encourage those of you on that side of the world to post and say hello :)

All-in-all, this unexpected downtime has brought to our attention just how much patronage we get, and gives us the firm impression that we are presently the most popular and active S12 community on the internet. I just wanted to say THANKS! We will continue to provide and maintain THE center for Nissan S12 information and enthusiasm, and still support our regional communities around the world.

VIVA LA S12!

Lol I'd like to say, I woke up today to a text from Jay asking about the situation.  It woke me up out of a drunken stupor of a sleep haha.  Then I got like 5 more, and then I signed on to IM and got 10 more.  Anyways, my point is, I'm completely in agreement with arro on the fact that we have a massive and very great user base here, and we appreciate every one of you.

On another subject, we are looking into some things at the moment to help avoid situations like this in the future.

And as always, feel free to email either myself (xanokais [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com), or Arro AND myself (clubs12admin [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com) if you ever notice a situation like what happened today.

Also, here's a link to the Facebook group for those of you who don't have it yet: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=136827479669150

Addictions in my life:

Weed
Womens
Beers
Club-S12

DjayS12 on 07:09:06 PM / 12-Nov-10Addictions in my life:

Weed
Womens
Beers
Club-S12

OLAY!

ben texted me! <3

i could have tried harder to stop the facebook mob...but they were so entertaining....also...i was wondering wtf was wrong with the site as well.

On a slightly related note, do you guys support the site privately, through ads or can we donate to help pay for hosting?

i agree

many sites have a donate button and recive for a donate even something special

something under the avatar or special rights for the "private section" LOL
or a super cool sticker *cough cough*

i see no ads....thank god.

simple ads arent too bad, like the google text ads, etc.

Also BattleFairy, we do have that.  if you donate a good chunk of money, you get "CONTRIBUTING MEMBER" under your name.

Yeah we used to get regular donations, but that dropped of as soon as the economy tanked. Tim and Travis never kept records, and I started to last month, so there are few (one or two) people emblazoned with the title.

There may be more, I might be able to search the paypal records.

Who can we send paypal donations to? I've never noticed a donate here button or link, but I'm oblivious sometimes.

[email removed] is the paypal address.  Just include your forum display name in the message.

No, it isn't. It's a different email address. I believe it's [email removed]

really, i thought you just used the comments field on the other one to distinguish.  Oh well, that's arros baby there haha, I dont get involved in the money end besides helping out to pay for various hosting costs here and there when i have some extra.