sammykhalifa Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) So maybe I'm a few days behind the times. Not sure if anyone else has caught this or not yet, but I thought I'd pass it along. I tried to get onto our forums this morning, only to find that annoying godaddy.com racecar driver lady staring at me. A little research and I found out that all of iPBFree is not only down, but gone for good? [url="http://tomlough.co.uk/post/815342111/hello-goodbye"]http://tomlough.co.uk/post/815342111/hello-goodbye[/url] [url="http://twitter.com/tomlough/ipbfree"]http://twitter.com/tomlough/ipbfree[/url] I'd love to hear if anyone else has had any issues or even uses this service. I'd love to hear that this is wrong and that everything will be back up soon. It's pretty hard to believe that our forums just blinked out of existance without warning. We're a pretty sleepy backwater part of CN ourselves, but I thought I'd share. I'd be willing to bet that this is causing problems for people other than us. Edited July 16, 2010 by sammykhalifa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrnea Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 iPBfree is gone. INT has lost their boards for the same reason (I hear they're working on new boards now). Nothing to do but move on to another host and start again. All the more reason to get some of your own (paid) hosting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan King Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) New Auric Armada lost theirs as well. I've been searching the net and found http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/316097-ipbfree-shutdown/ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135555099809797&ref=search Looks like one of their competitors is picking the corpse http://forum.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=14491&st=0 This sucks. Ipbfree was my favorite free host. Edited July 16, 2010 by Duncan King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred von Tirpitz Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 This is more horrible than it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriekfreak Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 A few other alliances lost theirs aswell. This is a pretty horrible move by IPBfree tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nippy Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 That blows. Hope you find a more trustworthy provider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
President S O Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Best of luck getting it all fixed up, guys. That goes to others as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred von Tirpitz Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 ARES was on ipbfree... http://chaosden.ipbfree.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilrow Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Just proves to show that nothing is life is truly free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cataduanes Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 [quote name='kriekfreak' date='16 July 2010 - 02:39 PM' timestamp='1279287581' post='2374407'] A few other alliances lost theirs aswell. This is a pretty horrible move by IPBfree tbh. [/quote] Yeah add The International to that list. really sucks bigtime [quote name='Bilrow' date='16 July 2010 - 04:04 PM' timestamp='1279292626' post='2374488'] Just proves to show that nothing is life is truly free. [/quote] Indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believland Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Danica Patrick is a fox, dude. I don't visit iPBfree so I wouldn't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Fame Monster Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Wow... they just did this with no notification? That is really screwed up of them to do that. I'm sorry to everyone who has IPBfree. Best of luck on finding a new host. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memoryproblems Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Wow, that is very unfortunate, not only for larger alliances like ARES and Int who lost alot, but also for smaller alliances using these services who might throw their arms in the air and give up after losing everything. As for IPBfree, everything that shimmers is sure to fade, it is certainly unfortunate to have happened like this and I find it pretty crappy that the owners of IPBfree can't give any explanation to those who lost months or years of work. These alliances aren't the first to lose forums, they won't be the last, and I wish them the best in persevering through these struggles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qazzian Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) [quote name='Sentinal' date='16 July 2010 - 11:34 AM' timestamp='1279294456' post='2374517'] Wow... they just did this with no notification? That is really screwed up of them to do that. I'm sorry to everyone who has IPBfree. Best of luck on finding a new host. [/quote] From the sound of it, they gave as much notice as they were given in the shutdown. Seems very sudden on their end, so I'm not sure what they could have done. Would be interesting to see if an explanation into what happened ever comes out. *EDIT TO ADD* According to the twitter feed of one of the guys from IPBFree, there's a lot of "Not legally allowed to say" talk. Sounds like they were forced to shut down by lawyers. http://twitter.com/tomlough Edited July 16, 2010 by Qazzian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cataduanes Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 [quote name='Qazzian' date='16 July 2010 - 05:12 PM' timestamp='1279296721' post='2374563'] From the sound of it, they gave as much notice as they were given in the shutdown. Seems very sudden on their end, so I'm not sure what they could have done. Would be interesting to see if an explanation into what happened ever comes out. [/quote] I think the following link is the closest any of us will get to an explanation...[url="http://tomlough.co.uk/post/815342111/hello-goodbye"][[Link].[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bros Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 They probably got DMCA'd out of existence I DID warn people that free forum hosts are not reliable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cataduanes Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 [quote name='bros2' date='16 July 2010 - 05:37 PM' timestamp='1279298214' post='2374594'] They probably got DMCA'd out of existence [/quote] Indeed the rumour mill seems to be pointing towards multiple DMCA violations which led to the shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memoryproblems Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 [quote name='bros2' date='16 July 2010 - 11:37 AM' timestamp='1279298214' post='2374594'] I DID warn people that free forum hosts are not reliable. [/quote] Not to mention that they are so 2006. But on that note, with all things of this nature, I hope that people will learn a few lessons for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolfe2015 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 [quote name='kriekfreak' date='16 July 2010 - 09:39 AM' timestamp='1279287581' post='2374407'] A few other alliances lost theirs aswell. This is a pretty horrible move by IPBfree tbh. [/quote] Not their fault, too many airheads hosted forums with content that got them shut down by some agency. If you guys haven't changed yet, and need a free forum, I'm pretty partial to Zetaboards. Lot's of support, mods, skins, and they have the internal shoutbox free now. Plus the Portal is a pretty decent way of doing alliance information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirMe Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) This is a tip to everyone to make sure you take backups of all your info regularly. We used SMFfree when we were first getting set up. It worked nice. Edited July 16, 2010 by AirMe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevanovia Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 UPN was a causality of this as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoADarthCyfe6 Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 I had lost a set of forums that I used for my clan outside of CN, second free forum host that shut down on me.... its quite a pain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian LaCroix Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 This always sucks, I remember when berserkerweb shut down on us years ago. Good luck in migrating to your new homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bros Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Query me if you need help getting new forums up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoomzoomzoom Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 What a shame. Ipbfree was a really nice service to those who had no means to pay for hosting. It was also easy to use for those ill informed of forum managing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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