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October 14, 2007 - Orbiter-Forum.com is founded.
Some of you have been around long enough to remember when I first suggested the idea of setting up a new Orbiter forum over on the M6 forum. The idea was not very well accepted among the senior members (rightfully so, no one wants to start all over again) which ended up in me giving up on the idea all together for the time being. This was probably a good thing since at the time I had just founded a vBulletin forum setup for friends and Formula 1 fans, so I had little webmaster experience.
About a year after I founded my first forum, I decided to go ahead and purchase a domain for a new Orbiter forum and another vBulletin license. I was dedicated to providing a solid platform for the community to expand with its ever growing membership. Needless to say it wasn't long before the M6 server started having more serious issues and everyone initially thought the database had been lost. Users were left stranded at their keyboards hailing the probe in an attempt to bring the server back to life. Fortunately the database was able to be restored after the hosting company could finally be reached.
Several members had already found Orbiter-Forum and joined before the more serious M6 server issues, however the amount of down-time the M6 servers were experiencing lead to the majority of the membership migrating over to Orbiter-Forum. It seemed almost over night the forum got busy with lots of traffic and has continued to grow to this day. By this time Martin had taken notice which lead to my first contact with the ever mysterious man himself and the beginning of a friendship which would continue to grow over the coming years.
Two years later we have just over 3,000 members, 10,200+ threads, and 126,000+ posts. We've seen a lot of great discussions and projects developed over that time and it's been very exciting to be a part of it all! I would like to thank everyone for all your support and contributions the past 2 years and I would also like to say thank you to all of our moderators who spend countless hours on the forum. Most people don't realize just how much energy is put into each issue. When someone reports a post the moderators are busy discussing the issue which helps them come to an objective decision together. Combine that with the time they spend just monitoring the site and you can begin to understand just how much work they put into this community. Last but, not least - I'd like to say thank you to Vash for offering to host Orbiter-Forum after we outgrew the shared server we were on. Without his help we would probably be struggling to stay online today.
Here's to all of you and a bright future for us all!
HAIL
Some of you have been around long enough to remember when I first suggested the idea of setting up a new Orbiter forum over on the M6 forum. The idea was not very well accepted among the senior members (rightfully so, no one wants to start all over again) which ended up in me giving up on the idea all together for the time being. This was probably a good thing since at the time I had just founded a vBulletin forum setup for friends and Formula 1 fans, so I had little webmaster experience.
About a year after I founded my first forum, I decided to go ahead and purchase a domain for a new Orbiter forum and another vBulletin license. I was dedicated to providing a solid platform for the community to expand with its ever growing membership. Needless to say it wasn't long before the M6 server started having more serious issues and everyone initially thought the database had been lost. Users were left stranded at their keyboards hailing the probe in an attempt to bring the server back to life. Fortunately the database was able to be restored after the hosting company could finally be reached.
Several members had already found Orbiter-Forum and joined before the more serious M6 server issues, however the amount of down-time the M6 servers were experiencing lead to the majority of the membership migrating over to Orbiter-Forum. It seemed almost over night the forum got busy with lots of traffic and has continued to grow to this day. By this time Martin had taken notice which lead to my first contact with the ever mysterious man himself and the beginning of a friendship which would continue to grow over the coming years.
Two years later we have just over 3,000 members, 10,200+ threads, and 126,000+ posts. We've seen a lot of great discussions and projects developed over that time and it's been very exciting to be a part of it all! I would like to thank everyone for all your support and contributions the past 2 years and I would also like to say thank you to all of our moderators who spend countless hours on the forum. Most people don't realize just how much energy is put into each issue. When someone reports a post the moderators are busy discussing the issue which helps them come to an objective decision together. Combine that with the time they spend just monitoring the site and you can begin to understand just how much work they put into this community. Last but, not least - I'd like to say thank you to Vash for offering to host Orbiter-Forum after we outgrew the shared server we were on. Without his help we would probably be struggling to stay online today.
Here's to all of you and a bright future for us all!
HAIL