extremetickling.com (uncle steve please reply)

cincinnatusc · Sep 5, 2001

Sir,
I'm not wanting to come off as rude. I paid for your site on thursday ( i believe), got on it that night, and it's been down ever since. You can probably imagine my frustration. Just my luck to pay and finally get to see this great site the day before it goes down. I'm not here to ask for a refund. I didn't want one when the archives went down, and i don't want one now. I know all you guys work hard enough, and i consider my lost money donations that hopefully make up for the very little i give back to this community. I was just wondering what the news was, and when I might expect to see this excellent site up again. If it's going to be closed for awhile, please let me know so i can cancel my membership until it is available again. Thankyou for your time.

ktickler · Sep 5, 2001

What I read in AMT

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extremetickling.com is experiencing MINOR technical difficulties over the last
couple of days. I have my host and CCBill working on it. I just wanted everyone
to know that it's only TEMPORARY! I'm also switching hosts to someone more
reliable. The site is alive, and it's not going anywhere, it's just coughing
and sneezing right now. 🙂 I'll have it up ASAP. I appologise for any
inconvenience, and feel free to email me if you have any questions!

Thanks,
Steve

UnclStevel · Sep 6, 2001

You aren't coming off rude at all my friend. If I had paid for something, I would expect to get what I had paid for! I would be frustrated if I were in your shoes too. As of 11:30pm CST (GMT -6 I think) I am uploading the site to a new server, with a new host. The data center where the site was being hosted stopped late last week, and without warning. As rare as this may occur, it happened, and it was completely out of my control. I've been camped out in my home for 4 days scrambling to get this all worked out as fast as I can. Let me reassure you that it will be around for the long haul.

On a happy note, I am glad to hear that you have heard good things about the site. I'm also happy to say that the archive has grown from 1.2 gigs of files to over 2 gigs in only 2 months! Let's keep it going!

If yourself, or anyone would like a refund, just <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email</a> me and I'll take care of it. For those of you who have stuck through this with me, I appreciate your understanding. This will soon pass...

Thanks everyone!
Steve🙂

sirbeartotickle · Sep 6, 2001

Hang in there Steve

All the webmasters here have had this happen. My site which has had 3 servers thus far has been through a lot in the past 3 years. One server even was hacked and I lost my entire site from top to bottom. Lots of help came from those in the community including (but not limited to) Omegafann, Noeyes, and the gone but not forgotten Daddylonghair (he is very much missed). You are trying very hard to make you site work and don't let it get to you. All I came say is "build it, and they will come (pun intended). Keep up the good work.

SirBear

dvnc · Sep 6, 2001

All the webmasters?

I ain't a real webmaster no more. Alas!

😉

It happens, brother, but not to those of us that don't have pictorial sites. My old story site's still up, and the gatherings site is too. The old Solefully Yours site that I webmastered was up the entire time I was running it. There's a reason for that, though.

The pain you folks are suffering is due to all the large files being downloaded, especially with imagery containing nudity. Those are, generally speaking, the sites that suffer. You won't likely see ANA go offline, for instance, as they don't keep video files on the site, and the pictures are very small.

You gents are suffering for your art, and your service to the community, and we, the community, salute you.