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VaGunTrader.com down???

45acpForMe

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I just got back in town last night so don't know how long it has been down. Anyone know? While opencarry.org doesn't sell firearms, having access to a site that helps people sell is good, especially for folks that can't afford a new gun. Hopefully they will be back up soon.
I have been getting the following error from them:

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at vaguntrader.com Port 80
 
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curtiswr

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It has been down since sometime late Thursday/early Friday. The bandwidth error is somewhat common with them, especially since the place has grown so much and gotten more popular as word has gotten around.
 
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I was wondering myself. I checked it Thursday morning and it was down then. I guess their host doesn't support such a big forum. I thought they used the same host as the Open Carry forum but I guess they get more traffic. Hopefully it's back up soon... It's become part of my daily routine!
 
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I can't help wondering whether SOME folks (who don't like our being willing and able to defend ourselves) are targeting sites like VaGunTrader with huge volumes of data in order to try to shut them down this way. These people are unscrupulous and ruthless criminals, you know, and I wouldn't put it past them.
 
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VaGunTrader

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yea...good ol WowBB has let me down again. Time to cut them lose and host elsewhere. Customer support must be on vacation, havent hear back from them since alerting them early Friday.

Who does this site use for hosting since they left wowbb?
 
peter nap

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I don't understand that. I have an inexpensive host (Fat Cow) and while I do have issues with them from time to time and I do slow down during extremely heavy times, I have unlimited bandwidth.

I've had some hacking attempts but never a denial of service problem.

I think he needs to chuck that host quick.
 
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yea Peter, time to chuck the wowbb software too. Time for an upgrade like this site did. Some of the mods are helping me look into the best route to take. I'm no expert on making that move either so I'll need some help there too.
 
peter nap

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Stay away from Blue Host. Price is good, features are great, tech support is top notch and they throttle your bandwidth when the servers get busy.
 
skidmark

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And I've got 56 PMs to wade through. I'm not going to stay up late just to do that. Tomorrow morning is going to be soon enough.

stay safe.
 
John Pierce

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kg4usk said:
I was wondering myself. I checked it Thursday morning and it was down then. I guess their host doesn't support such a big forum. I thought they used the same host as the Open Carry forum but I guess they get more traffic. Hopefully it's back up soon... It's become part of my daily routine!
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They use the same forum we migrated FROM. The big issue they have is not the number of posts / page views, but rather the fact that almost every post has multiple images which eats up the bandwidth.


John
 
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wrightme

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administrator said:
They use the same forum we migrated FROM. The big issue they have is not the number of posts / page views, but rather the fact that almost every post has multiple images which eats up the bandwidth.


John
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Get a better host. I have virtually unlimited bandwidth hosting two sites.
It must have just gone "new month," because it shows that my sites have used
0 / 9999999 MB :cool:

So that will handle 10,000 GB of transfer?

I just reviewed the charts and graphs from my sites, and the site with the most use was 5.7GB for the month of july, and that is the 0 / 9999999 MB
 
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t33j

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administrator said:
They use the same forum we migrated FROM. The big issue they have is not the number of posts / page views, but rather the fact that almost every post has multiple images which eats up the bandwidth.


John
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Which is why I host my images on Photobucket, so it has no effect on Vaguntrader.
Might be a good idea to turn off the ability to attach images to the site, and write / follow the tutorial in the posting pictures section. Text is cheap, images are not.
 
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zoom6zoom said:
Same here, just good etiquette in my book. Plus gives the added advantage of being able to post those same images elsewhere if needed.
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and delete the pics remotely after the item is no longer available, even if the thread gets locked.
 
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