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Smokey Tue Jul 08, 2003 11:42 pm  MODERATOR Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 93 Location: Mekada Underground Headquarters FORUM BACK ONLINE Good news! After a long and week, the forum is back online! Now the bad news: We are using a backup file from February, which means everything since then has been lost. Anyone whose account was created after February will have to go back and register a new account. Everyone else's postings will be reset to their status as of February. Here's my tale of what happened: Basically, a company called "FeaturePrice" was providing internet service for Mekada. Last month they went out of business, and all their assets were sold to another company called "Atlantic". FeaturePrice had thousands of customers, and everyone was assured that our accounts would be honored and the transition would go smoothly. Then the next day the Gearhead Garage web site was off line, with no explanation. Mekada's people tried calling, e-mailing, etc. for almost a week but we were totally unable to get in touch with anyone at either company. Finally on 27 June, Mekada moved their web site to a different company. Although the web pages and updates were back online, the database for our beloved forum was still trapped on FeaturePrice's server. We assumed that Atlantic would eventually give it to us once they got their act together. Then on 1 July, Atlantic posted this notice: Quote: http://www.atlantic.net/temp/index.htm "Atlantic.Net has been working with the former entity of Feature Price to transition Feature Price customers safely to Atlantic.Net. However, today the former entity of Feature Price denied Atlantic.Net employees access to Feature Price’s equipment. Shortly after this occurred, all service to Feature Prices customers ceased due to unknown factors at this time. Currently, Atlantic.Net cannot provide a time frame for service to be restored, however we are working closely with all available professional, legal, and law enforcement channels to restore services to Feature Price’s customers, just as quickly as possible. Atlantic.Net apologizes for this interruption of Feature Price’s service. We got into this to try and restore some faith into the hosting community and to try and put the customers first. Yet this has been undermined at every turn to the ultimate loss of your web hosting service." And then other customers started posting rumors on newsgroups: Quote: http://tinyurl.com/g479 The company who bought Featureprice, Atlantic.Net, was in the process of transferring account information over when Featureprice refused to allow access to the servers (although Atlantic.Net owns them), going as far as to hire "body guards" and the such. It's a mess right now. Rumors are that all files have been deleted, as well as backups. In the end, Mekada decided to give up waiting, and instead reset the forum using our backups from Februrary. It sucks, but at least it's better than having no forum at all. :-) In all my years on the internet, I have never seen a company treat its paying customers this badly. Words like "scam" and "class action lawsuit" come to mind... I apologize sincerely for the inconvenience. We are doing our best to prevent anything like this from happening again. And welcome back to the forum, we missed you guys! Cheers, -Smokey Quazi Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:10 am  Skill Level: Learning Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Next to a ho slot cars track A big thank you to Smokey and Mekada. Quazi _________________ Go aurora Thunderjets Boss-Racing Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:02 am  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 908 Location: Home of the V8 Supercars good to see you all again. smokey nice work mate you have done extremely well to get this site back up and running. hopefully u can get what belongs to you. cheers and thanks again _________________ if u want real aussie muscle for ghg or any other games pretty much go to: Car_Guy Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:25 am  HONCHO Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 3866 Location: Tucson, AZ no only 3400 post, ahhh, lol Oh well it's good to have the forums back again, hopefully people will find them again. Now i have a way to waste more time yeah _________________ CoUMa Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:57 am  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 718 Location: Norway finally.....was even close to changing my start page... _________________ AAARRRGGHH..... 2002SilveradoSD4wd Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:15 pm  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 1298 Location: Huzzawhazza? holy crapioly a week is too long. AUGH! Only 970 posts! no!!! lol. oh well, i was getting quite tired of being bored and talking people on streetrod. lol just kidding. and i noticed the fine print before posting isnt so fine anymore. jeezum, maybe that will make it clear then eh? _________________ "That thing gotta hemi?" "NO, its a blown 302. Wanna race, Biatch?" Yahtzee! dsoldier316 Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:27 pm  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 748 Location: around here somewhere alrighty then were back in busniess _________________ 69SS396 Wed Jul 09, 2003 5:37 pm  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 19 May 2002 Posts: 1377 Location: Red Oak Ia Well thats cool that are family is back. _________________ CO FOUNDER OF TEAM GEMIWRECK AND MILNER DESIGN. http://www.tomjmilner.htmlplanet.com ND4SPD Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:12 pm  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 553 well atleast all the bullshit that happened after february is gone. Thankgod this place is back up. the net was starting to get boring. DekRan Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:09 pm  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 583 Location: My computer The forum was up for me like a week ago, but only for like a day, not even that. what was all that about? now I gotta get back up to mekada level MP81 Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:06 am  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1033 Location: Michigan Yeah, I'm the Same as you DekRan, expect i had only like 400 posts, and i can't remember what skill level i was at. Anyhoo, I'm glad the forum is back up. Anthony Montelo Thu Jul 10, 2003 11:02 am  Skill Level: Mekada Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 1370 Yay! Andy's back! Everyone is!! KC7WZL Thu Jul 10, 2003 1:57 pm  Skill Level: Learning Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Idaho USA Good to see it back on line I seemed kinda werd the day I got back online it went off. yeppers it is me I am back. my mini web server should be back online as well ( the green light is on hehehe) kc7wzl _________________ kc7wzl Kane Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:37 pm  HONCHO Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 2466 Location: Halden, Norway Ive had about a week of spare time on my hands, and of course thats the same week the forum is down.... Oh well, i got another week of vacation, so ill try to check in more often than i have the last month or so. And i lost a bunch of posts and my Honcho title too. Oh well, thats all explained in another topic. _________________ Yes, that's all the way around, and lots more to go. 1975 T/A WIP 1973 Catalina Safari Wagon. On the road soon. 1978 For Fairmont 5.0 1985 Volvo 740GL daily driver...

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