Welcome!

There is another way TV Home can have a forum...

EZboard is a free forum service, and there's no limits as to how many people are going on or how much bandwidth is used.

Mind you there are SOME limitations, but I think the TV Home forum can function in EZboard.

www.ezboard.com

Give it a go. Hopefully the TV Home Forum will return!

I would also like to add, just incase the forum never returns, that I have made some great friends in the forum, and I hope I can keep in contact with those whose e-mail addresses I have. Its been a pleaseure knowing everyone here, and thanks for accepting me as a moderator!

Has anybody considered setting up an ezboard, they are free (if you can put up with some banner advertising) and bandwidth wouldn't be an issue.

Asa: I pay about £150 a year for webspace that isn't doing very much at the moment, and as far as I know have no bandwidth restrictions on it. Also have an Ikonboard forum that is sitting fairly idle

So if you're desperate for somewhere to put the forum...

William

Bandwidth is how much data is sent or received to a computer, or in this case the server.

Since there are so many users of the forum, as Asa said about 10GB worth of data from ALL of us has been either sent or received, or both by the server.

I think that's how it goes. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks.

Sorry, I know I'm talking to much...

I have room left on my webspace if you want to use it as well. Let me know, and I'll move out my website for the forum.

Cheers.

It would be tragic if the TV Home Forum is never to make a return.... I'm afraid that if the cost would reach that high I will not be able to host you all here forever as much I would like to...!

Perhaps it would be an idea to limit the number of posts we make per month. Or , shut down the general chat and TV related websites forums? Would this help?

Sorry to go on about this but you could have all the forums currently on TV Home and more, on ezboard. BUT with advertising.

That seems like a good idea - Asa?

How about spilting it down, you could put the individual areas of the site at the various hosters that we're now forced into using, and leave the forum where it is, or is some other way spilt the forum from the main sites webspace. Is the forum or the main site mostly responsible(i'm guessing the evil combination of both could do it)? Maybe when the forum returns it will be a bit quieter, after being down for a while. Ikonboard is superior to ezboard, so the best option would probably to put the forum as it is elsewhere, if its possible to move it! Anyway few ideas in with that mess!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions although since my announcement I may repeat may have a solution! I won't give any details at the moment and the domain may go haywire over the next couple of weeks but the outlook is a little brighter.

Steve can accomodate you until the end of week, which is fantastic and I'll then look at other temporary options.

Cheers, Asa
(on the very old and very unstable PC tonight!)