The SMFnew "downtime" discussion thread

**Darth-Apple** · June 5th, 2013 at 3:24 PM

SMFnew, for those who don't know, is a sizable SMF forum host with both free and paid plans. Over recent years, their service has gone from alright to very poor. They are known for massive 1-2 week periods of downtime without any warning, and in fact they are currently down for a "database error" with absolutely no explanation anywhere to be found. Not too long ago, they were required by law to suspend all forums and to reactivate them only by request, which killed a lot of forums. Several months ago there was 1-2 weeks of unexplained downtime. In addition, there are constant periods of 3-5 hour outages and service is generally very slow when their servers aren't down.

I found this ad pretty fitting in my google search results:

[Image: smfnew.png]

**simlink** · June 5th, 2013 at 5:59 PM

That ad... it's PERFECT!Ã‚Â ;D

**Darth-Apple** · June 5th, 2013 at 6:01 PM

Smart move from createaforum. I registered for their support forum just because of that ad. Tongue

**Gmdykfuiygh66476** · June 5th, 2013 at 7:53 PM

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

**simlink** · June 5th, 2013 at 8:41 PM

"Uh Oh, We Screwed Up Again!"

**Darth-Apple** · June 5th, 2013 at 8:43 PM

I find it funny that on June 5th, 2013, their only status message is from last December. I doubt they even know their servers have even been down for days. Tongue

**simlink** · June 6th, 2013 at 3:14 AM

They never update that thing. It's sad.

**Darth-Apple** · June 6th, 2013 at 3:15 AM

Icyboards is really the only good free host these days though. They are a myBB host, so they can't even bring their good spirits to the SMF community. Tongue

**Acko** · June 7th, 2013 at 5:48 AM

So it seems either I have the wrong link, or that simopsis.smfnew.com is down. Ugh.

**Gmdykfuiygh66476** · June 7th, 2013 at 5:53 AM

it's simopsis.com now Tongue

**Acko** · June 7th, 2013 at 5:57 AM

Moved twice, and didn't even redirect it, eh?

**Gmdykfuiygh66476** · June 7th, 2013 at 5:58 AM

It was redirected. SMFnew is just down so the redirect is down also.

**Acko** · June 7th, 2013 at 6:02 AM

That makes sense.

**simlink** · June 7th, 2013 at 3:42 PM

Yea, unfortunately we can't redirect if the site doesn't really exist anymore... sigh... I may redo the page on the fourmotion Simopsis version, though, to redirect to the current site. I'm just glad we ditched smfnew. Tongue

**Darth-Apple** · June 7th, 2013 at 3:44 PM

Yeah, seriously. I think posting actually increased quite a bit after the move because people could actually post without a "database error" every other page. Tongue

**simlink** · June 7th, 2013 at 3:45 PM

For that matter even access the site.

CreateAForum · June 11th, 2013 at 2:18 AM

Glad you liked the ad! Yeah been watching them for a while and have offered to buy them but they wanted too much. Which makes no sense they can't make that much money since they are down so much... Now just watching and seeing what happens. Hopefully they still have the data or the users will really be screwed.

Towncrafter · June 11th, 2013 at 2:27 AM

I find "in a few moments" in that image to be pretty funny. Shouldn't it be, 'in a few months'?
I've never had the joy of experiencing smfnew and from what I've heard from cheese and darthapple and simlink, I don't want to experience it ever.

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