About xFalcon.com

[imported_admin]

As you may know, xFalcon.com has been offline since early December. This was confirmed to be due to the hosting account being unpaid. The original owner has been un-contactable by the hosting company and by others, and as such they were moving to shut down and erase the account altogether. An offer was put to the hosting company that if the bill was to be paid, the account could be transferred temporarily to another person. So essentially this is how I have become in possession of the site.

Upon gaining access I seeked to simply get the hosting back up and running in the interim for the time when the real owner returned. However as soon as the hosting came back online, I unexpectedly found the main database to be incomplete / partly corrupted. In other words, unusable in its current state. While I am trying to find if it is even repairable, I have set up these temporary forums for the website users to at least keep contact. I do not know what has happened to Ahmed, however after seeing the condition of the site it would not surprise me if it has been abandoned. Let's hope I'm wrong.

As you can imagine this is rather frustrating. The reasons for my actions are only to make sure the original site data is preserved, with the hope of saving it, or at least holding onto it until Ahmed returns. It is not for my own benefit and the money has indeed come out of my own pocket. I hope this clears up what has been going on for everyone.

Thanks for understanding
Admin / aka. LOWFD

[blackjack_original]

Wow... just wow. :o

Kudos to you for trying to preserve the forums.

[dudeman]

so are you going to return the site back to the old admin when its up and running? i guess not xfghia but klr250

[ESP_302_WA]

if it site reverts back to the old host etc , will our old usernames be valid again or will we have to reregister like I have just done except I changed my username to the same one I use on other car sites ?

Andy.

[imported_admin]

The old host (Enetica) does not exist anymore, they went under.

[evan]

well if i knew where you were i'd buy you a case or two! unfortunately i don't have time to play with computer shit any more, so my contribution is merely a thankyou and good luck!!

open to donations??

[XF_Freak]

Respect.

Thats a very commendable move mate, i'm sure many of the members here can appreciate what lengths and money you have gone to and spent in recent weeks to keep the community going, regardless of how it looks or what data is kept, as long as there is a place we can all go to have a chat and discuss our problems and issues, we will all be happy.

Cheers,

Ian

[kenny87]

Whoa.....

Sean is the man!!

Thanks a bunch buddy.

Kenny.

[HOLDENKILLA]

Good on you mate!

[XF_Falcon]

Good on ya mate. You beat us to it. Mitch and I were thinking of doing the same thing, we only talked about it last week actually :)

But yeah its good to see it back. Hopefully the old database can be restored, otherwise well have to start from scratch again.

[Seano]

Good on ya mate. You beat us to it. Mitch and I were thinking of doing the same thing, we only talked about it last week actually :)

But yeah its good to see it back. Hopefully the old database can be restored, otherwise well have to start from scratch again.


I also hope it can.. however things haven't looked good so far.

Although this forum is 'temporary' at the moment, the posts will always be migrated wherever we end up, so for now I hope everyone can use the forum as usual.

[Leigh]

wow... changed a little bit hasn't it? :P

oh well. i'm glad it's back. and LOWFD........ WEL DONE!!!!! if there was a clapping emoti-face thing i'd insert it here.

[Xfish]

good to see it back..................

[dudeman]

its good the site is up and running but i dont know man, that logo looks like xfords logo

[XF_Tripwire]

Yeah good work LOWFD!! id be happy to donate if youve got a paypal account! im sure mines got a few dollars floating around in it..

[TheMaDDeSTMaN]

I'm glad I was also able to play a small part in getting xFalcon.com back online, good work LOWFD :)

[Ridin_Oldskool]

nice workk matee :)

[pioneerxf]

good luck with the restoration, there was some good info on the old database. New post counts for everyone yay!

[Pinkie]

kudos in getting this for us...youve bin a big help.....

i was wondering what happened to this place

[XF0747]

hope all the other stuff comes back up, i had 4000+ posts, :D

[MikGan]

Good work champ,

If you want help trying to resurect anydata data drop me a line, its right up my alley. *big clap* I was starting to think it was all over for good.

[Seano]

I'm glad I was also able to play a small part in getting xFalcon.com back online, good work LOWFD :)


Thanks for everything Troy, though I think 'small part' is being a bit modest! If you didn't go digging we'd never have found out why it was down!

MikGan I'll try to sort some stuff out on the weekend and get back to ya, cheers mate.

[TheMaDDeSTMaN]

I'm glad I was also able to play a small part in getting xFalcon.com back online, good work LOWFD :)


Thanks for everything Troy, though I think 'small part' is being a bit modest! If you didn't go digging we'd never have found out why it was down!No problem mate, but I think it was a small part because I only sent a few emails, nothing nobody else could have done.

I'm still curious to find out what happened, why things ended up like they did, we've heard one side of the story, but not the other yet, that will be very interesting...

[MikGan]

try to keep an open mind, these things are generally self caring, and the old blokes never really did anything to contravine their 'top bloke' status

[TheMaDDeSTMaN]

Agreed, I am keeping an open mind, and from what I've read about the web hosting company, well, lets just say I doubt they were without fault entirely.

[FRDPWR]

yeh they were all usefull posts wernt they GEROGE



hope all the other stuff comes back up, i had 4000+ posts, :D

[XF_Freak]

Your the one to talk Kamal! ;D

[Pillars]

Yeah mate, a massive thanks for keeping things live and kicking. And another thing.... Thats my logo you're using!!!! How did you manage to get hold of that? I dont remember posting it on the original site. Not that it bothers me, I'm quite thrilled that you used it!! ;D

[Seano]

Yeah mate, a massive thanks for keeping things live and kicking. And another thing.... Thats my logo you're using!!!! How did you manage to get hold of that? I dont remember posting it on the original site. Not that it bothers me, I'm quite thrilled that you used it!! ;D


sorry mate? what logo? every image on this site was created from scratch by me, or did i make something extremely similar to what you have done before? :)

if you mean the red xfalcon badge, it was created from a standard ford logo i downloaded off the internet, changed from red to blue and added the text.

[NIGHTHAWK]

Well good on you for trying to preserve the site, but i cant understand why ahmed just abandoned it, nothing happened to him has it, hurt, injured, or heaven forbid passed on...just asking? ???

[MikGan]

Hes alive and well, I chatted to him the other day.

[Mrs_klr250]

Hey Sean,

Good on you, I'm sure like us alot of people missed xFalcon. So job well done, I hope it hasn't been too stressful.

-Donna

[Seano]

Yes I also chatted (briefly) to Ahmed, however not long enough to resolve anything. He is no doubt busy with something and on the day in question I was also moving house so we seemed to keep missing each other just.

Mikgan has the database and is checking that out, but has said so far things are not looking good for it.

Anyway soon as there are any developments rest assured I will post them up here.

[falconboy101]

goodwork guys:)

good to see xfalcon backup and running

[Seano]

A bit of quick news for you all - In the last few days we have moved the site to a more reliable hosting company and have managed to sort out some of the ownership issues with Ahmed. Unfortunately in the process 2 or 3 days worth of forum activity was lost, however considering we are starting again with the forum, it's a small price to pay.

Thankyou for your patience!

[nickd]

Im guessing it will be worth for all of us who use this site and i'd like to say thanks to admin for doing what they had to do to get this site up and running and i think i would be speaking on behave of all on this site. :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
Nickd

[XF6T]

awesome job admin. I missed you. :-*

[Seano]

Some more news,

We will be transferring to new forum software sometime in February - vBulletin. When the time comes, all information from this forum will be transferred across. The xFalcon.com Gallery will stay untouched, however it will once again hook up with the new forum software and continue working as usual.

[robbie]

we're back and going to be better than ever! :D

[Seano]

Since some ISP's still haven't updated with the new DNS information, some users still can not access the site. User numbers are lower because of this however within a few days all of them will have updated.

[robbie]

people on broadband (ADSL & cable) may be required to turn their modems on and off so their IP/DNS info is updated.

[KLR250]

Well, Finally i think we are out of the Woods! prepare for an awsome 07" ppl, as we have a few things planned for this year ;)

Robbie (if you havent noticed already) is a new addition to the admin panel, and will bring his knowledge and ideas on board, aswell as organising our finances
old Mods will still hold there positions

we also would like to welcome any ideas you members have, anything you guys think we should impliment?? all ideas will be taken on board and discussed

events are also in the planning stages, and currently organising a Vic outing to touch base with members and generally stir things up a bit, get the interest back, get the numbers back up....

[masters24]

Bigh thanks goes to Seano and Troy for helping me to get back onto the site!! you guys saved my sanity!!!

Here's to the future of XFalcon.com!!! YAY!!!

[XF0747]

coming back bigger and badder in 07

[dudeman2]

test

[DXD351]

Thanks for getting site back up and running sean, troy and others. I was almost out of xfalcon patches, having withdrawals.
Got a quick question, compared to other sites that i frequently use, this one seems to be a bit slow on response. Does this have anything to do with the changes.

[MY ZL302]

Well done guys, great job. Looks good ey. I like it!

Paul

[XF0747]

Thanks for getting site back up and running sean, troy and others. I was almost out of xfalcon patches, having withdrawals.
Got a quick question, compared to other sites that i frequently use, this one seems to be a bit slow on response. Does this have anything to do with the changes.


i think u'll find once the new software is up and running it will be a lot quicker

[masters24]

Three Cheers for the XFALCON.COM CREW!!!

Hip hip, hooray, hip hip, hooray, hip hip, hooraaaaaay!!!!!

[DXD351]

for...... the're all jolly good fellows............ :)

[On Da Ghia]

Hey it might just be me but I can't seem to find my "Sent Messages", in regards to PM's, anywhere? does this exist? and if so where do I find it? I may have left my specticles at home :-\

Cheers

[Seano]

on this software sent messages are not saved by default. however you can select 'save a copy in my outbox' if you wish.

vbulletin has it, so just put up with this in the interim time :)

[On Da Ghia]

on this software sent messages are not saved by default. however you can select 'save a copy in my outbox' if you wish.

vbulletin has it, so just put up with this in the interim time :)


Thanks man, I don't really won't to hang onto my sent messages, but just couldn't work out if my PM had been sent or not

Thanx