Sorry for going offtopic, but amz: "Cybertoad Networks" havn't been up for 9 years, and yet you write it has!? You have been using computers/provided hosting for a few years but that site hasn't been up for that long.
Of course, we haven't been up for 9 years ...
We've been open and running for a full 10 years !!!!
Our free hosting service first opened on January 2, 1997 and has been
open and running continuously without interruption since our grand opening
a little more than 10 years ago and we just celebrated our big 10th year
anniversary just last month.
Interestingly enough, we still have a few of our original members too
who have been with us through the entire decade which should be
a big testament to our reliability and on going member loyalty.
You have been using computers/provided hosting for a few years
A few years? ROFL! :lol: :lol:
I have been using computers professionally for more than 32 years and
I had a direct hand in the development and emergence of many of the
internet technologies you now take for granted including but not limited
to TCP/IP, Telnet, DSL, Cable modems, IRC, Onling Gaming, and more.
I have also personally been using the internet since the 1970's. Meanwhile,
most of you didn't even learn about it's existence until nearly 20 years later
when it finally received mass public attention during the early 1990's.
In the late 1980's, I was also the owner / operator of the world's largest
multi-line BBS, outside of America Online, with a service known as Skynet.
I have worked with IBM, Bell Atlantic (Verizon), ARPA (Darpa), and many others
in my long time as a professional programmer, engineer, and network administrator
and I am now recognized and considered one of the world's top foremost
experts for my field for what I do and I'm not talking about hosting which is
just yet another list item for the many things I do.
A few years? Uhm ... yeah .... just a few ....
but that site hasn't been up for that long.
Blade1941, you are partially correct in that the current content at our site
is new relatively speaking against the actual age of our hosting service.
In March 2005, we had a major database crash that badly corrupted our
forum community database and wiped out about 6 years of posts.
Instead of spending weeks or months attempting to fix the corruption, we
just decided to use the incident as an opportunity to wipe the forums clean
and since our own sites use an isolated server totally separate from our clients,
none of our hosting members were effected by the March 2005 database crash.
Our own site was down for roughly 26 hours when we rebuilt everything.
