Yes, thanks. They have been removed.
I get confused with the whole backing up thing.. how long does it take and is it difficult?
I didn't get to see the email errors until today when they were sent to me from a different email.

I can not get on to it, but I have a feeling I could before the hosting company did something that took down all three of the forums we have.

I'm not sure why it happened. Pity really!
Just waiting on them to check it now and see what the story is.

backing up is VERY important. in my opinion if you're a webmaster small or large getting used to creating backups is one of the first things you should learn.

essentially when you do a backup, all you're doing is downloading your website files to your computer, and downloading your website database to your computer.

You can download your site's files/folders via FTP, I use filezilla.

You can download your site's database via your PhpMyAdmin on your sever, select the database associated with your forum and export it.

Hope that helps, there's plenty of info regarding how to do a backup scattered throughout this forum and on the net, get in the habit. Create a folder on your harddrive just for backups and keep a copy of everything you have online, offline. that's just my .02 cents.

I'll learn that and get in the habit of it.. how long does it take to do, on average?

( in response to the post after this; Sorry @ Videx.. I did actually think of that when I came to check on this thread. My bad!

This is not really the thread to be discussing backup strategies. Do a search here and at vb.com and you'll find a lot of things. On my shared server, I do a full website backup monthly via cpanel, download it overnight, then put it on one of two removable hard drives which are swapped out alternately and one is always kept off-premises.

I backup my db daily using a cron php script, and using DOS batch files I automatically download those every day at noon.

It takes me a minute to log into cpanel, and again to FTP, but averaged out I doubt it comes to a second per day.

y2ksw?

What do you think guys?

You don't want to pass all of your PR juice to advertisers, do you?

We only have a few paid sponsors at any given moment, and one of the few things we can offer them is to raise their rankings by appearing on our busy site. I sure wouldn't want to try to cut off the search engines from their ads with nofollow.

I respect your opinion Videx but beg to differ.

My advertisers paid to display their banners on my site, and they get that.

I don't want to lose my PR to them by providing them with links on every single page

is this mod still supported?

click tracking doesn't seem to be working.

running 4.0.7

The link redirect works, the impression is counted, however no clicks are shown in the banner statistics.

Would it be possible to do this with ajax instead of using an iframe?