TGO David

Good grief... I hope you actually corresponded with the guy offline before you just threw that out in the open. If not, it was fairly presumptuous of you.

Your map needs a representation of the assailant...

Just for the record... this isn't a push for more money or anything like that. Even if we suddenly had $3,000 dumped into the community (about what a decent dedicated server would cost for a year) there's still the nagging little detail of me just not having any time to do the overhaul. Not for a few weeks at least.

All of this reminds me of a slogan that we used to have on our server room wall back when I was a senior systems engineer at a major bank holding company... SPEED = CACHE = MONEY Of course, back then memory was significantly more expensive than it is nowadays. And then there are threads like this one that really make me want to devote more time and resources making the site faster for people who want to take advantage of everyone else's contributions.

Nah. We'll just have a really fast site for a really short period of time. Or at least until the hosting company sees that the check bounced.

Seriously... I just get tired of hearing the same stuff time after time. Yeah, the site gets slow from time to time. I'm extremely picky about server performance but so far the server is holding up reasonably well under the incredible load we put on it. I could tweak it for balls-out performance but as soon as I did, we'd get thrown off of the server by the hosting company for being disrespectful of the other folks who share the physical server that we're on. The ultimate answer is a dedicated server. That answer comes with a pretty hefty pricetag. It's where we are headed, inevitably, but we're not quite there yet. Moving to one doesn't just involve money. It also involves time, and that's something I have even less of these days. As soon as I have both of those commodities in enough supply, changes will happen. Until then, have some patience. And for what it's worth, I have spent the past 15 years of my professional life operating as a top-tier systems engineer very profitable companies supporting extremely critical systems. I didn't fall off of the cabbage truck yesterday and I know my **** when it comes to servers. TGO isn't mission critical and it doesn't operate with a multi-billion dollar budget, so I do the best I can with the resources we have at our disposal. Anyone who wants to write a couple-thousand dollar check to pay for better hosting and and a year's worth of bandwidth, feel free to contact me. I'll put your money to good use.

I sure as hell wish I knew someone who did enterprise servers for a living. Oh, wait...

I'm glad I read the entire thread before responding. This was my thought as well.

Unfortunately the commander of my marital AO has decreed that my 30D is to be handed down to her. Sorry man. It looks like I won't be upgrading to a 50D anytime soon.

I've noticed a few slow periods lately but nothing with it "locking up" so to speak. Keep in mind that once the server generates a page and delivers it to your browser, aside from some AJAX scripts that generate active content, the server is pretty much done with your session until you click something else. If it appears that the site has frozen up on you, chances are it's your browser.

Brian... I've got a Canon 30D that I am probably going to let go of pretty soon so that I can move up to a 50D. It's a great DSLR and brings a bit more to the table than the Rebel series does, and I could give you the "in-neighborhood hookup" as far as pricing goes.

I'm just not even sure where to start.

Nope. Like everything else, haven't had time.

Jack... you need to get your ego in check before you end up with a vacation from TGO. Thanks.

I said I'd look into it. /thread

You're far too lenient. If you're not involved, don't bitch.

The last time I looked into Gunpal they were just getting off the ground and were an unproven commodity. I'll look into them again but no promises. Paypal works and boycotting them because they won't let you buy a gun with their service is pretty silly.

I believe in a soft-sight picture and practice it. The only "point shooting" I do involves a sight picture of some sort the vast majority of the time.

Another "self defense" myth rears its ugly head.

AR15.com has a decent size "Tennessee Neighborhood" forum. Combine forces with them, the TFA, etc. and start hounding Rayburn every time he dares use the media to spin his lies.

Easy. Take the initiative and do it.

Now this character is stalking me on the Internet and has started sending bogus complaints to our domain name registrar (GoDaddy) and making unusual threats by email and by messaging on other social sites like Facebook. As much as I dislike casual use of the legal system, I'm convincing myself that this particular person is the kind for whom Emergency Protective Orders were designed. At least this way I have legal documentation of problems with them if they show unwise judgment and initiate some sort of physical confrontation.

That makes you a member of the "I post way too much information about myself" group.

What does any of it have to do with a privately owned and operated forum? I could refuse access to TGO to anyone who didn't have one blue eye, one brown eye and a left testicle slightly smaller than the right and be well within my rights to do so without fear of "discrimination". This isn't a government funded resource. I'm not an equal opportunity employer. I don't even have to offer a reason why I decide someone isn't suited to be a member of this forum. And I sure as hell don't capitulate to threats.

Where was the computer you used to post this message made?