stu-offroad.com finding a new home

[Stu Olson]

Folks....I applogize for the site being down right now.

I've finally found out where the Three Stooges are currently employed....my current hosing company! :me3:


I didn't think one could perform so badly and remain employed, but I guess anything is possible.


I'm going to eat this one by dumping 6 months of my remaining hosting contract and signing on with a new company, but I can't take it any longer.

Please hang in there while the site gets migrated to a new hosting company. It will hopefully be back and stable by the beginning of next week.

Again...my appologies for the inconvience (oh geez, I am starting to sound like those three stooges).

[Rocky529]

No problem, I've been there enough to know most of the write-ups by memory

[Airborne4X4]

You're good. We'll be here when you get the new one running.


Thanks by the way, I refer to your site alot. It's guided me through some tough mods.

Jeremy

[rjt36]

I just started reading your site the other day. My productivity at work has been reflected by my interest. I love it though. Maybe one day I'll have something worthy to contribute.

[Stu Olson]

I'm getting some PMs so let me address them here as I'm trying to shuffle about 4 things right now before pulling the plug for the night.

First....a big thank you to those have so generously offered to host the site, temporarily host the site, twist their buddy's arm to host the site, etc. I appreciate the offers very much.

Second.....I already have another host as of earlier this evening. It's just a matter of populating the new site and then waiting for the new IP address to get distributed.

Third.....for those that asked, my site is currently at 1.2GB. (kind of portly, just like my TJ) This month I will hit 250 GB of traffic. The new host as 1 TB of bandwidth so I shouldn't have to worry for a while.

Last....thanks again for the offers to help, etc. It says a lot about who all is out there....a great bunch of Jeepers, IMO.

[Materdaddy]

DANGIT!!! Just when my Air switch came in from 4x4 mods, and I wanted to get it wired up... The York OBA page on your site is what I was going to use! Oh well... Good luck with your move... I recently switched hosts and registrars of my domain. It was a lengthy 2 month process and I got the run-around from wayyyy too many people. Hope you have better results!

Ouch, just did a whois (after seeing a vDeck error on your page) and saw that you have iPower and Tucows... that's who I just left, and boy was it a pain in the butt. If I can recommend something to you... keep Tucows as your registrar, just move the hosting! That's going to save you a lot of headache, unless tucows does a better job releasing your domain. I didn't get any confirmation e-mails to allow the domain transfer, and after 30 days, they put it into "redemption period" which they wanted close to $200 to get out of. Needless to say, I let it expire just to have it snatched up by some domain poacher. They dumped it rather quickly as my domain isn't a traffic/revenue maker. Anyways, good luck, just wanted to vent on my crappy experiences with iPower/Tucows (mostly Tucows).

Also, i'd mirror your site if you want!

[mattlock1983]

stu,
your site is one of the greatest sites since the invention of the internet. i started reading your site long before i ever got a jeep. i keep printouts of most of your routine maintainence write up's in a folder under the backseat of my jeep. i hand them out to every new jeep owner i meet, and to some older ones that dont know anything about their jeeps. i have learned volumes more from just your website than i ever learned from my own father (unless you count learning how to do it wrong). thanks for the guidance.

im sure most of this forum feels the same way.

[joker2041]

Great site....good videos. They keep me very entertained at work when the going gets rough!!

[Materdaddy]

Originally Posted by mattlock1983

stu,
your site is one of the greatest sites since the invention of the internet. i started reading your site long before i ever got a jeep. i keep printouts of most of your routine maintainence write up's in a folder under the backseat of my jeep. i hand them out to every new jeep owner i meet, and to some older ones that dont know anything about their jeeps. i have learned volumes more from just your website than i ever learned from my own father (unless you count learning how to do it wrong). thanks for the guidance.

im sure most of this forum feels the same way.

My dad didn't even teach me to do things wrong... he tought me to do nothing, which was wrong... My whole life, my parents would just drive their cars until about 50K-60K miles and get a new one. They would add oil when it was low, but rarely change it. As far as other maintnance, it was never done either. I had to learn everything I know about engines from my fiance's step-dad, the internet, friends, etc. In the last month of owning a jeep, I've learned TONS from your site Stu, and I don't know what I'd do without the knowledge! Thanks!

[biffstephens]

Stu,

I have spent HOURS at your site.....I spent at least a tree printing info for my AW4 swap. You are a great help.....

I would encourage people to donate to the site if you can...I know Stu likes every 5 dollar donation that comes through (I recieved a personal thank you for mine)...buying 1.2 gig and 1 TB of bandwadth is not cheap..if you use it, let him know...

Glad you are getting things done and taken care of....

[fisher836]

Originally Posted by Rocky529

No problem, I've been there enough to know most of the write-ups by memory

Boy, that's the truth.

[JBTJ]

Great, just gives you more room to but more cool stuff. Hopefully later on this year you will run out of that TB of space

[stathunter]

what site? You have a website?














Ok---I am just teasing. Great site and we truly appreciate all the work on making it a valuable site.

[msavard]

THIS IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE.
GET YOUR ### IN GEAR AND GET THAT SITE BACK ONLINE SON!



Just kidding.. thanks for keeping a great resource online for all of us to use.

[matt3liv]

Originally Posted by msavard

Just kidding.. thanks for keeping a great resource online for all of us to use.

Do you EVER work? ,S.