I was poking thru my "lost" email account on LMA and notice someone replied to a topic from 2006 lol and figured I would poke about and saw this thread. Pretty sure this is my first time back here in 3-4 years lol
anyway yea some tool tried to hijack the LMA domain and failed but it got put in a status lock, then the domain reg I used was super slow in getting it released. yay... having a site as large as LMA go down from time to time is just how it goes, but it will never be permanent.
so yes back up and not going anywhere. i did have an issue for a little while with over bandwidth issues last year but I have a good host and they worked me to get some dedicated bandwidth at a good rate. The Google ads now cover 90% of the server fees and bandwidth so its pretty much self sustaining without me having to add a bunch of other sales stuff(hope the current ads are not too annoying, hint: adblock for FF), it shall live forever
To put everyone at ease yes the site is backed up server side nightly and weekly to my local server. but its not an easy process when the media server is up to about 2 gigs including all the image cache. sadly I don't get as much time to work on it as I would like, one day it will get live streaming movies and tv. but first the rather arcane backed needs to be fixed. I have been patching it for years. I spent almost a month full time writing the original code from scratch as the first idea in my head and all the admin tools. Back then I had the time, sadly these days I don't. I have learned quite a bit since then and it madly needs some modern tools. So far I have just been trying to keep the look fresh, clean and easy to read. I have noticed some people using smart phones, might add a version one day to support those better too. if only I could get paid to work on it full time it would kick ass, speaking of I wonder what it would cost me a month to have some tech from india add content 8 hours a day for a few weeks lol
kind of interesting to look back on it now. my whole idea for LMA came from here, it was going to be a sub title archive then I was like well if im going to do that I can just make what RFF should have been with logic from imdb. I ended up cutting out the rff "special" parts to make it more main stream and thanks to ALIPTES its grown quite a bit. Being that everything has at least a headshot I like to think its a little better than just info scraping like rff
thanks everyone for visiting and supporting over the years, oh and rich you dont have to use the anon.to when linking, in fact it I think it helps my page rank when you dont but its up to you.