TGO David

Thank you both. I won't lie; October has not been a fun month for me because of the issues we've been having here. Thankfully we seem to be on the other side of that now and the server is performing very well. Just in time for the election! Thanks for sticking with me and with TGO while I worked through it.

No, that looks too small and looks like it is adhered to the inside of the glass on the other vehicle. Ours are larger diameter and adhere to the outside of the glass.

Nice! I will have to give it a shot soon. Conversely, if you haven't tried the Clyde Mays Straight Bourbon Whiskey yet... you will not be disappointed.

How is it? I really need to get out and go to the store today.

Saturday, October 22, 2016 @ 2:30PM Central Welcome back! Today I moved us to a brand new dedicated web server with an entirely different web hosting company. Hopefully this is the start of a better situation for TGO and we can finally put the server performance woes of October behind us. I have done very minimal performance tuning to this new server out of the gate, preferring to see how it performs with a plain vanilla configuration. Tweaks and tuning may prove to be necessary in the days ahead but, if so, they will be done incrementally so that I can measure their effectiveness. If you see slowness at any time, do not panic. I am logging performance data every minute and reviewing it daily to see what bottlenecks might exist and develop strategies to correct them. All you need to do at this point is sit back, use TGO, and enjoy the community. Of course if you notice any glaring problems, please do report them via in the Feedback and Support forum. I will address them as soon as I can. Lastly... Tapatalk... The new server should be more than adequate to the task of running Tapatalk. I will try to re-introduce it in a few days. I really do want to monitor the performance of things without it for a while just to formulate a baseline. Having a good baseline without Tapatalk will be critical to addressing any performance hit from running Tapatalk later. Please just be patient with me. I'll give it another shot as soon as we've had a few days of regular use under our belt. Thanks for being patient with me and with TGO over the past few weeks. I hope the weeks ahead make us forget all about the run of bad luck that we had. --David

Climber; You had two expired invoices attached to your account that were stopping you from buying another. I cleared them out for you, so you should be good to go. Anyone else having this problem, check inside the Store and see if you have expired invoices. If you do, you can renew from those and it accomplishes the same thing. Thanks for wanting to support TGO! I appreciate it!

UPDATE 10/21/2016 @ 11:00AM Central The month of October has not been an easy one for us. Server issues have plagued TGO since we migrated from an old virtual server to a new virtual server at the end of September. Performance has never been up to par with what we had previously. Today I have done two things: I have upgraded the forum software to the latest. The software authors say that performance improvements are contained within the code, and we certainly need performance improvements. I have ordered a brand new dedicated server with a different host company. The new server is very stout and we will share it with no one. It is 100% dedicated to TGO. I will be moving us to it sometime this weekend. Basically I am tired of playing games with our hosting company. They've had a month to help sort this out. It's time to cut bait and go somewhere else, which is precisely what I will be doing. It's going to cost me a few hundred extra dollars this month in order to give the old company their requisite 30-day notice to discontinue service while paying the new hosting company their fee as well, but I think it will be worth it. If you've bought a Benefactor membership lately, thank you. Especially in light of the performance problems, thank you! If you haven't but have been thinking about it, every dollar helps me cover the expenses of divorcing ourselves from the previous hosting company. More to come. Hopefully our bad days are almost behind us.

Was it the one listed here? Those things are nice!

There were 6 or 8 folks in Chat yesterday mid-morning. I was surprised to see that on a Sunday. As soon as things settle down with the server and I can stop spending my time working on problems like that, I think I am going to set up some scheduled chats every so often when I and a maybe some of the moderators will be online for Q&A and random hijinks.

UPDATE 10/15/2016 @ 9:00AM Central Hey folks. It's been a very long 24 hours. If you missed TGO, the feeling is mutual. We missed you too. Or I did. Actually I really just missed having a server that was functional. And as much as I'd like to not have to go through the past 24 hours again, sooner or later we're going to have to. So here's what's up: Our current web server is not performing up to par. It's slow and during times of peak traffic for us, it is downright unusable. If you have tried to use the forum any in the 8pm - 9pm Central time-frame over the past few weeks, you know what I am talking about. It hasn't been fun for any of us and has consumed 100% of my time which means my family has had to suffer through it as well. Yesterday I embarked on the task of figuring out what was wrong with the server. It's new and it should be performing better. What I found was a myriad of problems that soon made it obvious that the best way to fix it was to take backups of our files and our database, and then burn the server to the ground and start over. Scorched earth! That did not go entirely to plan. Our hosting company had difficulties delivering on a rebuild so, at around 11:00PM last night, I decided to just have them restore the whole server from a backup made several days ago. That process lasted until around 6:00AM today. Since then, I have been restoring our database and files to bring us current with the way the forum was right before I attempted anything yesterday. It appears that this was successful in getting us back online... but it doesn't fix the problem of slowness with the server. *deep breath* So what's next? We are going to have to move the site again sometime soon. I am looking at all options. One of them is just to move to a new server with the current hosting company. Another option is to leave this hosting company for someone else. Until then we will limp along. Please do me a favor and loan me your patience. I need it.

Joe, you have my deepest condolences and prayers. As Mac said above, please let us know if there is anything that we as a community can do for you.

Once I get these server problems behind me, I have a new feature that I am going to make available to TGO's members that will allow us to keep a database of things like this.

My most recent purchase is a Mike's Special inside the waistband holster from TT Gunleather for my Sig P320 Compact. Hoping to receive it sometime during the first week or two of November.

Let's see how long we can keep this going. Post the last firearm-related thing that you bought. Could be a gun, could be an accessory. Post a picture with if it if you can, otherwise just tell us what it was. Feel free to share a link.

Six months to render approval is ridiculous.

BersaGuy, thank you for sharing that. I'm glad that you felt comfortable enough to give us a glimpse into something as important in your life as that.

That thing looks wicked. What's the cost going to be like on them?

My wife and I have stopped watching NFL ball games. Between the Titans just sucking as bad as they ever have, and the petulant behavior of the players protesting the country that enables them to live in luxury, we've just given up on it entirely. We've started watching collegiate football more and find ourselves slowly becoming Vols fans. Never thought I'd say that.

Welcome back to Tennessee. What part of the West were you in?

UPDATE 10/11/2016 @ 6:30AM Central Hey folks. You're going to notice some periods today while the site is offline for maintenance. I'm still making some changes to optimize the server to support our traffic, and some of the changes require short outages.

I have a stack of these that I run with my Glock 19. No problems. Ever. Over 2,000 rounds spread across a dozen of them to date. I am confident enough to use them as carry mags.

Fantastic photos and thumbs up for taking some heat along with you. My wife and I visited Sedona a few years ago and we really need to go back. For exactly the reasons you showed in your pictures. There is just nothing to compare to it anywhere else.

UPDATE 10/7/2016 @ 6:20AM Central The search index rebuild completed yesterday morning sometime between 6:00AM and 10:00AM. This morning I made a few small tweaks to the database engine. At this point it is about making minor changes, waiting, and gauging results. During our non-peak times the speed is blistering fast. During peak times, it isn't bad but I think it could be better. I'm working on closing the gap between peak and non-peak.

UPDATE 10/6/2016 @ 6:10AM Central Search index rebuild is still going. Currently at about 60%. By now searching should show you recent threads, but older threads may not be showing up yet in a search. This will continue to improve as we approach 100%.