[Nicko]

To All,

I would like to start off first by saying I am very sorry that our recent move has not proven to be more stable than I hoped. To be honest it was a quick fix to get us through a rough patch until we were ready to move to a dedicated server. During this time I had other projects that I started quite a while going that needed to get wrapped up such as the forum re-design, various updates to the site, contests (books, knife give aways) and a whole slew of other items to numerous to write down.

You may or may not know this but part of the problem for us is our framework which runs the site. There several different technologies we are using to run the site that all worked very well when we first start out and only had say 700 registered users. Now we are over 16,000 and we just can't handle the bandwidth. I am in the process of switching frameworks (cold fusion to php for those who are interested) and with a full time job, family etc it takes a long time to get to things.

Please know that my main focus at this time is getting this site on a dedicated server and running smoothly. It has been nothing short of frustrating the amount of emails, pms etc on the database timeouts.

Please be patient I will have this situation tied down within the next 1-2 months.