Hello all!

As I have been saying in the support forums over the last couple weeks, I will be posting blog entries outlining FreeForums.org and its infrastructure of the past, present, and future. But before I can do this, I should really introduce myself to all of you.

I am known as Cero, and I was brought onto the FreeForums.org tech team back in late July as a consultant. I am a programmer and systems administrator with several years of experience with PHP, Perl, shell scripting, as well as XHTML, CSS, and various other programming and markup languages. I currently operate over 35 Linux servers (Debian, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu) as well as a small number of Windows Server 2003 servers.

I have been brought onto the FreeForums.org team in the capacity of a chief technical officer. In that, I now lead the development and changes to the infrastructure (which includes all those pesky upgrades) as well as provide guidance and direction for the programming team.

Lately, many people have been complaining about the upgrades and asking us to stop for awhile. Sadly, that is impossible as it would leave us offline, permanently. So in the coming blog posts, I will be outlining exactly what you want to know and everything there is to know about the infrastructure that FreeForums.org uses to provide you service.

Anyway, if you have any questions you would like to see answered in blog posts, please reply to this and let me know!

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of questions about the next big thing from FreeForums.org. Although we haven’t been adding much to our constant upgrade topic, we have been working very hard on what we like to call “operating features.”

Operating features are features that indirectly improve your forum. They are necessary to keep the FreeForums.org Efficiency and are mostly on the back end. This include things like tweaking our proprietary spam prevention systems, streamlining the support forum, and optimizing the current programs.

We do have some exciting new features in the works so keep checking back.