Recent content by tx_shooter

I treat my forum like a second job/ investment. I try to set aside a couple hours each week to work on quality content and maintenance on the forum. But like was pointed out - the biggest issue is getting other users to post the high quality content that keeps the forum useful. I have also...

I have been a member on various forums since 2005 when I first stumbled upon a shooting forum and became a member. Since then I have been a member of various forums as my interest and spare time allow. Now I own a forum that I bought from the founder because his interest and spare money would...

I had repeated situations where the XF server log showed no errors but the SQL would go offline due to excessive connections. InMotion maxes shared servers at 20 concurrent SQL connections. One of the members on my forum does SQL database work for a living and he looked at what was going on...

I started with GoDaddy when I migrated my forum from vB to XF almost three years ago now. They worked but started having uptime problems. So I migrated to InMotion Hosting only to find that the only thing that works there is their sales department. Now I am hosting on FastComet and all of my...

I have hosted my smallish forum on three different hosts now and have been blown away by the quality of support and speed from FastComet.com hosting. First I was on GoDaddy a few years ago and they quickly declined in stability. Then I went to InMotion Hosting and never had true quality of...

Was there any resolution to this problem? I recently started having problems with Pinterest on my forum. There were no changes made before this happened.

On my forum the previous owner did a TO-R Christmas where some of the ad money and donated items from vendors are given to random forum members. In a sense it is like a Secret Santa where nobody knows what they are getting but the general membership is not responsible for getting gifts to mail...

May I suggest trying to encourage midget pics/videos. They take up less space. j/k