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Just A Quick Update

Hey guys just a quick update. I am still waiting for access to the site from Martin so nothing new to report on that stuff.

The team is busy working out a plan which is going pretty good and will be a great new start for the community. So far some of the ideas we have that are pretty solid is moving to a new home with the same domain name. This will help with the stability issues we are currently experiencing.

Of course with a new home comes some expenses. Some people suggested a paid service but we will most likely go with a community donation run service instead. What we would like to do is to have a display on the site that shows the current cost for that month so if people want to help out they can donate and cut the cost to us.

Utahcon is also currently working on the development side of things and will be using Wordpress MU (which is a community blogging system based on Wordpress). Utahcon is extremely talented and has experience with WPMU so I am pretty positive this will be the system will be using once we move.

WPMU is also more secure and reliable and has a lot more support from the developers as well as the WPMU community.

Also once we move I will no longer be heading EFx2Blogs :D .. this will be a complete team effort. I am already excited about starting something new and fresh with this great team. :)

Many many good things to come :D

Posted: 9:11 PM, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by Keith

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Hey It's Me Again :)

Alright I had a chance to read around and read most of your guy's concerns. There is a few things I should point out though which also might make you want to go with the new community run blog hosting that Pixie has suggested [URL="http://welshpixie.efx2blogs.com/40675/"]here[/URL].

1.) First and foremost I want to send out my appreciation to Chica, Pixie, Styles and all those I might have missed who have been working to help the community. Thanks guys you did a wonderful job.

2.) Ok onto some technical things. I believe some people are misunderstanding some of the issues the site has. For example ..

- If the site is down and the server can't be reached there would be nothing myself or the CLs could have done with the same access I normally have. I don't have server access to get it rebooted or to fix whatever server issue their might be.

- When there is a weird server issue which is what I believed happened this last time there is nothing I or the CLs could have done to fix it with the access I normally have. This is why we could post and see the main page but could not access any subdomains. Something might have happened which effected the way the subdomains were working. The site was actually functioning correctly at the time code and database wise.

- Basically any server issue we experience wouldn't have been fixed even if the CLs had the same access I had.

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So the only real benefits gained by the access will be the ability to add to the site and fix any code issues. Even some database issues could be fixed with the access .. but beyond that not much can be done to fix problems that might arise.

90% of the issues we have had in the past with downtime have been server issues. The other 10% is usually something I did wrong in the code. :D

This is also one of the reasons I am in favor for a community run blog site on it's own server with full control. That way other people are in charge, especially ones you have faith in and if anything does come up you guys will have the ability to fix it right away.

Anyway my main point is even with me back or even if the CLs had the access I had then or now it wouldn't have made a difference because none of us would have been able to fix any of the server related issues.

So I think the best bet right now while it's being proposed is to go with something new that is run by the community. :)

Posted: 11:36 PM, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Keith

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OMG He Is Alive ;)

Hey guys long time no see. I am glad to see the place is working again. I thought the last time would be the last.

I haven't really been around a lot because real life has pretty much taken me away (lot's of personal stuff). I know there is a group of people that would like to take over the reigns but I unfortunatly have bad news at this time.

I haven't had access to the server, ftp or anything else since the server move back in January. I haven't even been in contact with Martin since then either. I have the same exact access the CL's have and there is not much I can do at this time.

I only have access to the domain name which I renewed for another year back in March. I never had plans to dump it or anything like that. I would more then love to continue to work on it, but need to gain access first.

If you want my honest opinion your best bet would be to join or continue to use something like Vox until access can be gained again. I can't make any guarentees to server stability though even after access is gained and given out to those that want to help run things.

I also noticed some of you are currently working on creating your own blogging community which I think is very cool and might be your best bet in order to gain complete control over things.

Well just wanted to let you guys know that I am still alive.

btw I vote for www.globbin.com .. start a new fad known as globs ;)

Posted: 5:03 PM, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Keith

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Current Status of EFX2

Please join the discussion that's happening over here: [URL="http://welshpixie.efx2blogs.com/40675/#c114159"]http://welshpixie.efx2blogs.com/40675/#c114159[/URL] Thank ya much! :)
Posted: 3:03 PM, Monday, July 21, 2008 by Kellz	Link

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