Excuse me for jumping in here. I am a little frustrated by the difficulty in getting into some areas of this forum. I understand that some areas are only for subscribers, but are they all marked -- or are some unmarked areas also just for subscribers?

I tried to get into the "Theology" section, and even after waiting a full two minutes, it just would not go.

I noted that the bottom left of my computer showed it to be hung up on an advertisement.

If a person is a subscriber, are the ads removed and it goes faster?

There are a lot of avatars for topics. Granted they are pretty. But if they slow the forum, I can get along without them.

If the forum is just too big, maybe it should be broken up into sections so that a person could go to the section of interest and move around faster.

Well, as Ole says to Olga: "I tank I say too much already!"

There must have been a server issue.. we do run out of engine at times. We should go to a completed dediciated server, but that will be another $80 or so per month...

With some companies you can get a dedicated server for less than $80.00 per month.

I don't know what hosting plan you are using. I use GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com) for my website which has small demands. However, GoDaddy does offer dedicated servers for large websites. These cost from $63.99 to $347.92 per month. There are a number of options.

I like GoDaddy as service is excellent. You always get a live person on free support, and they are always cordial and helpful. Just a thought.

I tried again to get into "Theological Talk" (60 viewing) and was not able to get in. Lower left of my screen said "transferring data from cs6a.clearspring.com.

I paid through PayPal for a subscription. Still could not get in. May have been too soon. I will try again tomorrow. Will a paid subscription be free of ads? Will it be faster?

Would it help with a forum this large to break it up into segments -- maybe on different websites. My interest in the forum is rather focused, and I would probably use just one segment. With a forum this large, it is easy for your contribution to get lost in the maze of detail.

Every forum has a certain feel. I have used several forums. One forum collected complainers and ex-sdas. At every presentation of Adventist truth there was always immediate objection, and rarely a reasoned evaluation of what was said.

Another forum, more Adventist oriented, There were two who gave good responses, but never disagreed with me and had no suggestions.

A non-SDA forum had excellent discussions, but it became tiring to have to continually defend SDA belief.

Several forums are "dead in the water" to the point that I was the only one posting.

I suspect that each forum attracts certain persons. By subscribing, I will have a chance to see how I like this forum. there is certainly a wide range of interests here.

So Sorry! I finally figured out that to access a subject, it is not enough to just click in the box, even though the color changes. You have to mouse over the topic to bring up the underline, then click.

If you click on the topic in the left hand box you get the menu for that topic. If you click on the topic in the right hand box, you get the specific (latest) thread on that topic.
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Another suggestion: Separater bars are blue with some graphics. So far so good! However, they often contain important information, like the date of the post. With the blue color and the graphics, it is hard to read the information.

You can change the color scheme of the forum by going to "My Stuff" at the top and clicking on "Edit Preferences"...

Thanks Pam. I chose ubbthreads. much clearer at least to me.

I do not know why "transferring data from cs6a.clearspring.com" showed up at all. As far as I know we have no affiliation with them.

The next move will more than likely be to "cloud" hosting, that is where you can adjust the processors up and down as needed as well as hard drive space. I dread the transfer work involved, esp he mysql database. Here is a sample of cloud http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/CloudDynamicServer

The minimum hard drive space is fine, bout would want 4 gigs of ram and 4 processors, right now we have up to 4 gigs available and 2 processors. That can be adjusted at any time, so it may be the last stop and resting place of the various club adventist ministries.

Amazon has a cloud as well, and an advantage there is they mirror everything around the world so it would be just as quick in Australia, England, China as it is in the USA.

STAN

THIS would be nice

dgrimm60

Sounds great Stan. Will probably cost you more. Maybe you might need to increase what we contribute per month?

pk