Introduction of Myself, Cero
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!
November 27th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
always good to be kept updated, I hate it when companies & sites, etc. update or upgrade without keeping their users informed (a bad example: freewebs.com, good exaple; freeforums.org)
keep up the good work
-Ashley.S.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hi Cero,
I’m not sure where to refer for help on this, and would appreciate any advice you may have. I’ve added all the relevant words for my forum in the Meta Tags, but when i try searching for my forum using those key words, my forum is nowhere to be found on the search results. Even if i search for my forum using the complete url, it does not appear. What can i do to make the forum appear higher in search results?? Thanks in advance for you help!
December 15th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Hi Fuzz,
That’s a question better suited to be asked in the support forums at http://forum.freeforums.org/
January 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
In the past I had couple times registered free forum like this and after a while one day you go to your forum and it’s not there any more. It’s just gone, no explanation, no any kind of message… Now I have the 3-rd one, all kind of post, but… Is this one going to disappear one day like the others ? How do I make sure that this will not happen again ?
January 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Again, this is not the place to submit support requests. Please submit them at http://forum.freeforums.org/