admin ( at ) vhoist (dot) com

or

harry ( at ) generationdub (dot) com

These will both go straight to my blackberry.

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I'd like to start off by apologizing for the downtime we had yesterday. I'm just dropping by all vHoist sites today to make sure everything is working. All administrators will receive an email from me later today regarding the situation.

For the technically minded:

One of our DNS servers failed early morning Monday and caused us to get a new server. Unfortunately this had the adverse side effect of changing our DNS IP Address and "parking" our Domain name. I immediately changed the DNS, but as some of you are aware, it can take up to 48 hrs to propagate across the entire internet, which caused you to see the errors that you have been seeing. Yes, a nightmare for me. Our entire vHoist site was down only for a matter of 30 minutes, however, because of the 24 to 48 (sometimes even 72) hour delay on DNS Propagation it has really affected us for the last 2 days.

For everyone else:

One of our computers died and there may still be a few issues lingering from yesterday. If you can visit vHoist.com from your home PC, but can't see your car parked on your favorite forum, its because your forum's computer hasn't got the "house warming" invitation yet and probably won't know our new address until the end of the day! Hopefully everyone has our new address by the end of the day and we can all have a nice BBQ together poolside :D

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This was completely unexpected, and *knock on wood* has been solved permanently.

As I said in the past, vHoist is a free plugin and thus does not generate any income, but I try to fully support it as any other company would a paid product. Since I'm a "one man show" - some items take a little longer than usual.

This is our first (and hopefully last) downtime since our release date of January 1st, 2009, making us have a 99.4% uptime which I consider fairly decent. vHoist itself was technically not even down, but our DNS provider was.

I will be releasing a new vHoist update soon that will include a "check" for activity so that the plugin does NOT mess up your site when our site is down. This is something I have been working on for a while.

ALSO, on the good news side of things, I will be releasing the following in the next 2 weeks:

- Auto Registration for users coming from forums
- "Templates" for different types of vehicles (ATV's, Cars, Trucks, Bikes..)
ie: A bike does not have "interior" mods, thus does not need the car template
- Adding Boats and Bicycles
- Checking for vHoist connectivity (so your site doesn't get error messages)
- PHPBB Plugin
- Facebook addon

Please stay updated via This Thread or of course.. on http://www.vHoist.com

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully this has not tainted anyone's opinion of vHoist as we have never had this happen to us before.

Harry Scanlan
http://www.vHoist.com

We were not hacked.

The reason it effects your main page is that the plugin downloads a piece of information from our site and relays it onto your site. I didn't anticipate this kind of downtime in the plugin and thus did not put in an "error check" - which is why you were getting the error.

Please see my above post outlining the issue. You should be able to reactivate your account as early as now. I will be checking EVERY vHoist site today and sending personal emails to the administrators (via the address that has been provided in our database by you) to make sure everything is running properly.

Next release you will beable to edit all of these options, including languages!!

Can you send me an example of the "duplicate car" ?

was down yesterday....all good today....thanks man!!

I noticed on your site that Harley-Davidson wasn't represented for motorcycles in your drop down. I'm thinking of using your plug in at http://www.HDRidersUSA.com but don't want to spend hours figuring how to change it from cars to bikes. Any ideas on this

any news on the next release? still would like the ability as an admin to disable certain people rides or them in general from showing up on my site. i.e. dont want cars on my MC forum

i would LOVE to be able to delete members rides off my list...can this be done ?

bump:

Footose...can we/you delete members rides off our lists if there not active on our sites anymore?

bump... sorry....i really wanna get a car off my list...lol...

We recently added Mountain Bikes / Bikes to vHoist.

Sorry about the slow response!

I will release an update that will allow you to do this. If you send me your site name and the cars you want removed I will do it manually for now.