Erik

I answered some of these questions already. I'm not sure how much detail is needed in a breakdown so I hesitate to get too in-depth. As an example this year it cost us $418.31 for our insurance policy we're required to have in case our equipment catches fire and destroys the co-location facility, that's a yearly premium. I wrapped all that stuff into a cost overview to make it easier. I actually toyed around with the idea of making this a pay for privilege site to cover our bills but have been very reluctant to do so and hope to remain free spirited indefinitely, though we know free is never free. The donation option is available in the little drop menu where your name is, I also posted a link above along with the subscription link. Putting together a visual bandwidth consumption graph for each person would be a huge undertaking. I'm not sure there would be enough return on investment for that as it would require a software engineer from Invision to accomplish. I get a breakdown of top users etc, but have to run reports for individuals. An example is our top downloader this month has grabbed 2181 files used 131 Gigabytes of data and that's just one person. Let me know if I didn't answer all your questions.

Our yearly operating costs fall into these categories. Equipment, Connectivity, Software, Renewal Fees, Banking Fees, Accounting, Fed/State Taxes, Insurance, and Licensing. Our income is derived from GoogleAds and Subscriptions. Our operating costs hover around $750.00 per month. Our income has been hovering around $400.00 per month. While $400.00 per month almost covers our monthly equipment and connectivity (keeping the lights on) it is falling short of meeting the remainder of our hard costs. This is why we're asking for your support and help. It's been mentioned that we'll have to scale back or discontinue some services. I would find this hard to do as our size (space on disk) has grown to the point that scaling back would require us to physically shrink. That's almost impossible to do. Scaling back our bandwidth is doable but we'd suffer great losses in the process which will affect our bottom line creating a vicious circle. This is a last case scenario. I recognize that $750.00 sounds like a huge expense but it's really not. If you think about your internet, cell phone, and cable bills which you're paying $400.00 per month for I'd say we're doing fairly well handling the thousands of people we see daily on our budget. Not to mention the 5.4 million downloads to date and the yottabyte of bandwidth we've shared. So where does that leave us today? For now it means we have to stay viable, it means your support in invaluable, and we recognize each of you who subscribe to us every day we keep the lights on. There has been a nice surge in subscriptions today but we need to keep it going. One notable mention is Jarhead1 AKA Kevin, his contribution alone restored my faith in this community and single handedly almost double our subscription income for the past four months. In months past we've had generous donations from Jug and logan4 to be sure but there are many who deserve appreciation, so from us to all of you, THANK YOU! Let's keep the momentum moving forward. Realistically I'd like to set a goal of about six months of costs (roughly $4200.00) and then our current income will cover us for another 6 months. I don't know how close we can get but we've taken a good step today. As always if you have questions please ask. I'm happy to share what I can about anything we do here or why we do it. Subscribe or Donate

I got on it as soon as the server notified me. Apache crashed which corrupted a sessions table in the db. More than likely a packet flood to Apache or DDOS. Joys of online life.

For the past few days I've been making backups and preparing for some changes which required a complete reset of services. Because of that we had a brief period of being offline this morning, about an hour, while the file system verified OS integrity. We then had a period where files were being audited across our machines, about five hours. Everything is back up and running as it should be with all things accounted for and disks verified. This is in preparation for our physical machines to be relocated to a new data center at the end of the month. Our data center is moving to a new state of the art facility with improved connectivity. We will be offline again toward the end of the month for a couple hours while our machines are physically delivered to the new location. I will update this post when I have an actual time. Thank you for your patience while we searched for cob webs.

Everything is complete and all our services restored. The move was a success and the new data center is already strutting it's stuff. That new robust connectivity is impressive.

Not sure how all our java scripting are working for you, but if it's working that's all I care about. :)

Seems like all the problems you are having are java based. You might want to make sure you have java installed. Not sure IE ships with that.

Our machines will be physically moved late Friday (22nd) / early Saturday (23rd). Everyone should expect us to be offline for a couple hours while this happens.

Our forum software comes with this as an addon option. I specifically made sure it wasn't even capable of being installed by blocking it. I had read up on it awhile back and didn't like the premise it was built on. They might not even know over there what they've unleashed on their readers.

Because this thing is like getting into your mini cooper and going for groceries. Inside of a Buk-SAM [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], by alexindigo, from Wikimedia Commons

Lexx all due respect but my emotions are in check. My views of the situation have nothing to do with western media. Period. Maybe "your sources" can offer a reasonable explanation for what happened to all the electronics, wallets, purses, passports, luggage, make-up, etc at the scene? They must have vanished like that other Malaysian Airlines flight. If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, I'm calling it a damn duck. Separatists, locals, whatever the stuff just didn't grow legs and walk off.

If they had left the personal belongings alone and respected the crash site they would have been further ahead for their trouble. Imagine the respect and money they could have collected for their diligent services and handling of the situation. Instead they have received the middle finger from the world. Separatists in Ukraine? Really never heard of them. Instead they took some spending money, worthless plastic cards, and a few worthless electronic items. Not too smart these people. I hope they run a sting operation on all the cards and phones and magically disappear anyone in possession of them. Now considering what Malaysian Airlines would have paid for their support it's no wonder their happy tearing their country apart. Russia doesn't even deserve their BS and if I was Putin I'd tell 'em, "been nice knowing ya. Yippee Ki Yay MFers.

The looting is the thing that really pisses me off. Whatever happened it happened and we may never know the whole story. The fact it happened with little remorse highlights the failure of mankind, but the looting is in a league of its own. I pray karma comes full circle on the looters. I can't even imagine if that was a family member and I found out their lifeless bodies were pillaged, let alone the proceeds go to the defense fund. I hope justice for the victims is slow and painful lasting generations if possible for the looters.

Mobile systems usually work with support vehicles. The launcher, command, and supplies. I'm not sure what acquisition capabilities the launcher itself has if any. It's curious to say the least because dead eye recognition wouldn't have been used, not even sure it could be used. The launcher needs to feed initial vector information by radar locking the target until the SAM is close enough to take over. The command component of this launcher should have been able to identify the radar signature and given the operator a glass eye look at the target. I'm not even sure if the Buk can operate in an automated defense posture essentially acquiring and firing on anything that's in range. Either way the responsibility of owning and operating that equipment was gravely misplaced. It's like loading a handgun and handing it to a child then claiming ignorance when the kid blows his head off from sucking on the barrel. "I thought his mother was watching him, how was I supposed to know he was going to pull the trigger." Insanity.

Nobody gets points for shooting down a passenger jet.

The one war Russia has mastered is media propaganda. They've actually won conflicts and never deployed a single soldier because of it.

I would try the following. Uninstalling firefox and flash player. Reboot. Install Firefox. Install flash player. Check if resolved. There's no reason this shouldn't be working for you. More than half of our users are on Firefox.

I said it before. A responsible airline does not fly over these types of zones with extreme tension and civil uprising whether they can or not. Troops are moved on commercial airlines all the time. You want to gamble with your passenger's lives over a thousand dollars worth of fuel, suffer the consequences and be labeled a mass murderer. Malaysian Airlines are just that. The only thing they are worthy of is a going out of business sign.

I understand this is a high altitude route. I wouldn't put 289 passengers and crew let alone a 291 million dollar asset at risk just because a route *can* be flown, it shouldn't have been flown. This plane should have never been in this airspace. If the airline company was responsible they would have re-routed further to the south until such time that the tension in on the ground were resolved. Spending extra money on fuel to guarantee the safety of their passengers is not just their responsibility, it's their job and a cost of doing good business. Malaysia Airlines should adopt a new slogan, "never get home again with Malaysia Airlines".

Malaysian Airlines is trying to replace their fleet of aging aircraft under the radar. Any airline operator that flies over a country in civil distress is gambling with human lives. Any passenger that willing flies this known route by Malaysia should be considered cattle lead to a slaughter. My condolences and thoughts go out to the families left behind.

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Yes and I'd love to see how we can meld into that community and support it. :)

I'm not privy to that information. Hence the reason I took the time to make sure we are ready to move. If they screw up a graceful shutdown, move, and restart there will be hell to pay. I do have confidence they will be able to handle their own move. My concern prior to that was to actually do a restart to see what normal checks the system would generate and that all devices and services would come back up after restart. I don't restart our machines for any reason they are all handled live and prior to this morning we had 374 days of uptime which corresponds to when I upgraded our machine last year. Prior to that I think we had 981 days of uptime. I hate seeing that counter reset it makes me sad but there are no alternatives.

Germany just can't catch a break can they? LOL