Marks vintage swapmeet

Guys,

Got an email last night and they are working to bring site back up.

Their server crashed and they have been exploring options.

Give them another week or two and they should be back up and running.

Here is email

More

I have had a few inquiries as the to the status of Vintagemx.us and
when it will be back online....so I thought I'd take a few moments here
to give a status update.

First, I would like to thank all who are financially supporting this
transition. It always amazes me the backing that this site has in the
Vintage Motocross community. As soon as the dust settles, I will update
your accounts to reflect the funds that you sent in.

Now on to the server.

After I sent out the initial message I received a lot of offers of
help...some offering old servers (good used), some offering help with
purchasing new servers and some in the IT field that recommended
putting the site in the "Cloud". I'd like to thank all these guys for
their offers of assistance.

Upon discussing some of these options, my System Administrator echoed
what others have said and recommended putting the site into Amazon's
Cloud. Doing so would be a large departure from what we've been doing
for the past 18 years. Cloud service advantages and disadvantages and
those have to be weighed very carefully.

There is just too much technically I'd have to get in to - to help
everyone understand the pros and cons, and unless you're a IT guy and
you knew in depth the workings of operating systems, scripting
language, DNS servers and so on, respectfully it would be lost on most.
In a nutshell our main issue is migrating databases, programming and
scripting language from an old operating system to new version found on
Amazon's cloud. Not impossible to do, it just has to be done carefully.


So what we did this past weekend was doing somewhat of a "proof of
concept" with regards to moving into the cloud. We took a website I
manage on my private servers...Vintage Husky...and moved it over to
Amazons services. This is a simple site, no databases, no PHP bulletin
boards...just straight ole HTML. After a short leaning curve and a few
tweaks, we successfully moved it. You can see it in action at
www.vintagehusky.com. It screams. Very fast response time with little
or no latency. With that, we determined that this is something worth
looking into with regards to Vintagemx.us.

Unlike Vintage Husky, Vintagemx.us isn't straight old HTML, it's much
more involved...there are databases, scripts, programs and PHP bulletin
boards that have to be integrated and tested. This takes time
unfortunately and has to be done in baby steps.

We will be working on this throughout the week and into the weekend as
time permits. My IT guy of 20+ years is a military contractor tasked
with Cyber security and isn't available to work on this full time. But
I'm cautiously optimistic that we are moving in the right direction for
the future of Mark's Vintage Swapmeet. It's a bit expensive on the
front end in his billable hours...and there will be monthly
subscription services to deal with going forward, but that's all being
handled through your donations.

Should all this work, I envision never having to come to the group and
ask for funds to purchase new servers...nor should we have to
experience any additional down time.

For now, I just ask for your patience as we break new ground and
potentially transition to the "cloud".

Some have asked if donations are still needed. That window is still
open if you feel so moved. I'm not sure where the costs will eventually
land, but anything funds not used for the move will simply roll over to
future subscription and maintenance costs.

That's it for now. I will try to keep everyone updated when I know of
something that moves the conversation forward, but I won't bother
sending out a message just for the sake of a message. Feel free to let
others' know of our status and our efforts.


Thanks for your time.

Mark
VintageMX.us

I got it too. Got some great leads there. Like all the other sites they have to move to the new systems as the old ones aren't supported. Hope it takes!

Anybody heard of any progress on the resurrection of Marks site ? Kind of really miss it !

It looks like it works again.